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ENGL11000

English Composition

Chelho An

05/13/20

Way to create writing: following steps

It was the first time that I have encountered English writing as an international student, not as my native language. TOEFL writing what I have experienced about English writing is also a systematic writing with introductory, main, and conclusion. But, because it writes down given problems based on my thoughts, it lacks basis. Also, it only aims for score, so that there was a limit to learning academic writing of university level. Through this course, however, I could learn what academic writing is like. The courses are divided into three phases, which are gradually linked to each other. And within the phases, there existed steps to achieve the objectives of the phase. I was able to learn the comprehensive writing stage by achieving my goal step by step from phase 1 to 3.

Main goal of phase 1 was how to read a writing. Reading a given essay and figuring out its subject and purposes is an important factor in reading. Through the “Rheological Situations,” It is that understanding the author’s intention to write by investigating to find out not only subject and purpose but also the author’s surroundings, publishing dates, publishers, and audiences as well. The common theme of a total of four given articles is that language defines the identity of a person who uses a language, not just a method of communication. Gloria Anzaldua wrote “If you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language,” and “Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity” in her essay (Anzzaldua, Gloria. How to game a wild tongue. 39). Also, Lippi-Green claimed, “Dialect is perhaps nothing more than a language that gets no response”. In other words, each language should be respected regardless of its standard language because it contains culture and has an identity. These articles were very sympathetic to me. My pronunciation is very different from standard English because my mother tongue is Korean and I grew up in Korean culture at the time of forming my identity, and I use English as a second language. Based on this background of mine, I indirectly feel that there is a difference in the language and behavior of Westerns and Easterns, just as there is a cultural difference between the West and the East. Through phase 1, I learned how to read to understand the subject, to understand the author’s intentions by sentence and paragraph, and I was able to organize my thoughts based on that.

If the focus was on reading correctly in phase 1, phase 2 aimed at academic writing in earnest. The step of phase 2 was more than phase 1 and more systematic. It was the process of setting the subject, examining the material and reading it correctly, selecting and summarizing the material appropriate for my subject, and quoting the summarized data appropriately into my article. Through this process, I learned the whole process of writing, from searching resources to giving logic to my writing. My topic was inspired by phase 1 about how language based on culture affects human life. And as an international student from the Eastern culture, I  argued that it is necessary to understand their language in order to accept and understand other cultures. (An, Celho. Language include culture and defined human behavior. 2020) I checked the relationship between culture and language through class reading materials as resources for writing. And through the data I researched, I described how the relationship between culture and language affects human behavior. The most memorable part of writing this essay was to associate each resource with each other to create a logical flow in the essay. I made a trend in the course of language formation, the cultural characteristics of the language formed through this process, and how the language with cultural characteristics defines the behavior of people in the culture through the materials of class reading and the Internet survey. This flow gave logic to the essay. Through phase 2, I learned how to give logic to the overall academic writing process and writing.

Unexpected situations such as COVID-19, returning to Korea, and isolation occurred, and the phase 3 was not completed. But as the title suggests, phase 3 seems to be the goal of critical analysis. If I analyze and modify whether my writing accurately conveys arguments or is logical through critical analysis, more persuasive and logical writing will be possible. Through this course, I could learn how to write at the university level. I learned how to read and grasp data, how to summarize and discern data, and how to strengthen logic in my writing through that material. This foundation will make future writing a little more academic.

References

Lippi-Green, Rosina. The Myth of Non-Accent. Appalachian Journal and Appalachian State University, 1997. pp 48 – 51

Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

Shariatmadari, David. “How Much Does Our Language Determine Behavior?”. Behavioral Scientist. 23 Jan 2020. <https://behavioralscientist.org/language-dont-believe-a-word-sapir-whorf-hypothesis/>

An, Chelho. “. Language include culture and defined human behavior”. 2020