I've Done Final Task!

Through Writing classes, we’ve learned a lot of things. We had essay prep. & essays proper, book reviews & bibliographies, peer-to-peer commentary, and portfolios of our work. We have been busy because of these tasks, but these tasks gave us a lot of opportunities.

For essay prep. & essays, we tried free-writing, mind-mapping, outlining, and drafting. Free-writing is lots of fun because we can write about anything topic. We usually tried mind-mapping first. This taught us a lot of ideas for our essays. After mind-mapping, we decided how to organize our essays, and then tried writing essay prep.. After this, there was peer-to-peer commentary. Thanks to our classmates, we could rewrite better essays. For me, these comments taught me many things, so I tried to rewrite twice. I wrote second essay longer than first essay, of course, last essay was the longest of the three. Second essay was better than first essay, and last essay was the best of all. Through these process, best essay has come.

For book reviews, we tried reading English books, and wrote quotations, summaries, opinions, and recommendations in our reviews. For this task, we went to library and borrowed some books, which is written in English. After reading  a book, we reviewed about it. Through this task, we tried to read English books for the first time. For me, this gave me a lot of opportunities. Until this year, I have never read English books, so this was good. At first, reading English books is difficult for me, but I found reading English books is a lot of fun. I want to continue in the future.

For peer-to-peer commentary, it reminds us of rules of comments. When we comment on our classmates’ posts, we tried to comment with praise, advice, agreement, and so on about articles. It was good for me to care these points. When I received comments, I was pleased, so I tried to comment on classmates’ and peers’ blogs as many as possible. Reading their articles was so interesting because they wrote about a lot of things. Reading their posts taught me a lot of things, so I liked it.

In this year, I’ve learned a lot of things through Writing classes though these tasks were very hard. These experiences will help me in the future.

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Favorite Place

This map is for my essay 2-02. I would like to write about my favorite place, suisyun. I'm writing about the location, building, with whom and what I do in the essay.

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Favorite places

I would like to write about my favorite places. My favorite places are hot springs, especially suisyun in Mashiki, Kumamoto. There is near shopping mol kurea, and it takes about 30 minutes from my house. I hardly go there because it is far but I have a time and want to go there. Six months ago, I finally got driver’s license and can go there by myself. The other day, I went there with my mother and had a relax time there. In suisyun, there are many kinds of hot springs and I can enjoy having a relax time. In 2nd floor, I can enjoy ganbanyoku while reading comics and magazines. I like relaxing and I like to go there. In restaurant, I can eat various food. I like noodles so I often eat udon there. In addition, I can go shopping after or before hot springs. Sometimes I have a relax time in there and go shopping. Thought suisyun is far from my house, I have very good time there. And I want to go there. 
If I want to take hot spring in night, I often go sironoyu near my house. There is the Kumamoto Castle near my house, so sironoyu is near my house. It takes about 10 minutes from my house. I often go there by myself or with my sister. Sometimes I go there with my mother. I can eat delicious foods there too. I can take ganbanyoku there too but the size is smaller than suisyun. After take a bath, I like to drink coffee there. During summer vacation, I went there by myself and I took a colder hot spring. There were a few children there. The children came there with their grandmother, and they swam there. They thought the colder hot spring was so like pool. It was a lot of fun. I like children and hot springs, so I had a special time with the children in there, of course I didn’t swim, I did watched them. 
My friends like to go to hot springs, so I like to go there with my friends. During summer vacation, I couldn’t go there with them because I’m not in Kumamoto, so I want to go there in the future. Winter comes, so warmful is good I think. Taking a bath slowly is good for health I think. I’m looking forward! There are many hot springs in Kumamoto. One of my friends work at a hot spring. I want to go there someday. The area is famous for hot springs. There are many customers. I proud of it. I like Kumamoto, and I really want to enjoy it. The area is far from my house but I go there in near future.  

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Extended outline on Uni Life

Uni. Life: Outline

University life

I would like to write about my university life. To tell the truth, I had only some friends in university when I entered this university. However, I have many friends now. I have lunch with my friends and it was a lot of fun. Thank you my friends<3

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My Start-Up

books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, fiction, free-writing, graphics, links, media, mind-maps, movies, non-fiction, outlines, quickposts, references, reviews, revisions, typing, websites

placement essay

Dear my host family 
Nice to meet you! My name is Yukie. Thank you for having me at your home. Please let me introduce myself.

 I’m 19 years old, and go to university. My university is KGU. I live in Kumamoto, Japan with my family. There is a Kumamoto castle near my house.

 My hobbies are cooking sweets, walking, playing the tenor saxophone, and listening to music. When I was a junior high school and a high school student, I joined the brass band club.

 I have a younger sister and a younger brother. She is 17 years old and he is 16 years old.

I don’t have any pets. Do you have pets?

I’m not in any clubs now.

It’s my first time to study abroad. I want to go to many beautiful places. My English skill is poor, but I want to improve my English during this challenge.

 How is the weather? Is it hot? I like winter better than summer, but there are many events in summer. I look forward to those events. Which do you like better, hot or cold? When is your birthday? My birthday is in December.

 What did you do at New Year’s? I went to my grandfather’s house and spent time with my family. My grandfather’s birthday is January 1^st, so my family celebrated it and ate cake. I like cooking sweets, and I made cake, sweet potatoes, and pudding for the New Year’s Day.

 Are you interested in Japan? If you were interested in Japan, I would tell you about my country. I’m interested in your country, so please tell me many things about your country and you!

I’m looking forward to meeting you! See you!

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