Blog #6 Writing Self Evaluation - Chanho Park

I am from South Korea, and the native language I using is Korean. In the writing essay, the most difficult thing I hardly make is grammar mistake. Contrary to English grammar form which is ‘Subject-Verb-Object’, the usual grammar form in Korea is ‘Subject-Object-Verb’ word order. To cover this problem in writing, I have had to practice and training in working with the word order in right way. Naturally, the students who learn first time can get easily make an error. This is also why I easily make grammar mistake in writing essay. I am not sure whether I made a grammar mistake or not right now in this writing. Also, there is an expression problem that English never use like a Korean type expression. In Korean conversation, for instance, set a high value on honorific talk each other depend on peoples’ age even if one years younger than others’. However, The English has no specific expression that honorific talking as much Korean except using like ‘could’ or ‘would’. In Korean manner, when we call someone, we should consider the listener’s age because we should call brother or sister after the name. According to Korean talking, if I say ‘you’ or calling name to someone who older than me is very impolite manner but English talking is only put ‘mister’ or ‘miss’ right before name is naturally thing. These are the things what I thinking about difference between English and Korean. In conclusion, I think the most useful thing in class I attending now is fully understand the academic conduct in university and law of writing.


I have had to hard time that I understand the difference between plagiarism and academic misconduct. The reason is that it is hard to distinguish the plagiarism is the part of academic misconduct because I already knew both two things are prohibited manner in university. In my country, there is a little academic misconduct which only focused on gets high GPA in whole course. Particularly, Korean students tend to put an effort and time on gets high score in whole school record even if valued as extra credit. They really do whatever to get high score in GPA by fair means or foul. Naturally, the mainly required academic process except gets high GPA can be ignored, and this turns out cheating each other and copied from internet. Also, I believe that culture role is totally reflected on their academic for main two reasons. This is because; the environment around an education is giving a huge affect on students in each country. For example, student have been seen, listened, and felt from childhood. In this manner, the culture in country depends on perception which decided their country condition. To sum up, I consent with cultural difference is affect on academic conduct.