When I look back over my private writing, especially for the memoir, I think it
encourages me a lot. Because I think I express myself in the memoir, which refers to
some real feelings and experiences, I find that writing is way to show myself. By
explaining my emotions in the memoir, I think I can learn a lot from my experiences
when I read it later. The persuasive essay, on the other hand, is like a method to move
the private writing to the public. Unlike the diary which talks about many personal and
private issues, the persuasive essay is more academic to demonstrate a fact to the
public. When I write the sketches of both the memoir and the essay, I would like to
write them in a logic way. For the memoir, I follow the time sequence because it is
easier for the audience to catch up the events. For the persuasive essay, I divide the to
pic into three parts and then demonstrate my idea respectively. The overall argument of
my essay is to illustrate that the United States has reshaped me from three parts
regarding characteristics, lifestyle and dreams. I get myself to jump in and do one burst
of writing and then move on to another, because it is easier for me to describe the
present situation of myself. Since I need to recall the experiences which happened in
the past, I need time to organize the memories to make them as a whole story. I think
it is not so hard for me, because the memoir only recorded the experiences which
happened four years ago. I decided to use the informal genre of the memoir for the
audience, because the memoir is like a diary which contains more spoken language to
make it more real. For the persuasive essay, I use more formal language because it is
more academic.
I try to make my readers understand the process of my change and how the United
States reshapes me. I think I am proud of my memoir but I feel unsatisfied about the
language I used in the memoir. As my professor suggested, I need to show the
audience instead of telling them, and I need to make the memoir more implicit. Based
on this suggestion, I changed some language to make it more implicit. I want the reader
s to tell me if I have fulfill the goal of changing the language from explicit to implicit.
encourages me a lot. Because I think I express myself in the memoir, which refers to
some real feelings and experiences, I find that writing is way to show myself. By
explaining my emotions in the memoir, I think I can learn a lot from my experiences
when I read it later. The persuasive essay, on the other hand, is like a method to move
the private writing to the public. Unlike the diary which talks about many personal and
private issues, the persuasive essay is more academic to demonstrate a fact to the
public. When I write the sketches of both the memoir and the essay, I would like to
write them in a logic way. For the memoir, I follow the time sequence because it is
easier for the audience to catch up the events. For the persuasive essay, I divide the to
pic into three parts and then demonstrate my idea respectively. The overall argument of
my essay is to illustrate that the United States has reshaped me from three parts
regarding characteristics, lifestyle and dreams. I get myself to jump in and do one burst
of writing and then move on to another, because it is easier for me to describe the
present situation of myself. Since I need to recall the experiences which happened in
the past, I need time to organize the memories to make them as a whole story. I think
it is not so hard for me, because the memoir only recorded the experiences which
happened four years ago. I decided to use the informal genre of the memoir for the
audience, because the memoir is like a diary which contains more spoken language to
make it more real. For the persuasive essay, I use more formal language because it is
more academic.
I try to make my readers understand the process of my change and how the United
States reshapes me. I think I am proud of my memoir but I feel unsatisfied about the
language I used in the memoir. As my professor suggested, I need to show the
audience instead of telling them, and I need to make the memoir more implicit. Based
on this suggestion, I changed some language to make it more implicit. I want the reader
s to tell me if I have fulfill the goal of changing the language from explicit to implicit.