Blog #6

I have learned how to improve writing essay and summary for almost one month. Actually this is not my first time to learning those stuff. When I was in high school in States, I had took ESL courses in Freshmen year. However, still I feel confused when I express my opinion in writing. Mostly, conjunctions and words order obstacle me to write beautiful essay. After I graduated high school in States, I improved my skill by using conjunctions and other stuff in essay. However, eventhough I know hard words, such as; SAT words and few GRE words, I do not know how to put these words in sentences appropriately. For example, the words barrier, obstacle, interupt, interfere, and disrupt have similar meanings. However, people use these words in different sentences. In korea, we use these similar vocabs in every sentences and sentences are not wrong. Also, I did not knwo that informative and descriptive words makes my essays more better. This lecture helps me to write proper words in essay. It teaches me when I should use informative and descriptive words.

Plagiarism and academic misconduct are really hard for international students to fully understand. In Korea, good answers for test are how much I write the answers similar to textbook or what professor taught to us. Also, students do homework together most time. Because we think, if we study as a group, we can learn each other more and support each other to get good grade on tests. Therefore, I think that cultural difference mainly influences to international students in States. We see many Asian students study together, and prefer to use resources as one of the study strategy. The reason Asians concentrate on exact resources are because of grade. We, as I am also Asian, get good grades in different ways in our own country. However, in States, we should create our own thinkings. Essay should be creative, and we can use few resources with quotations and reference resources. These are unfamiliar studying strategies in Asian countries. As a result, I agree with cultural difference affect international students not to fully understand academic code and role in USA.