Singer Position Essay

There is a huge difference between the Writing in my own country and that in American. As an international student, I have to balance this culture shock. During one year in global pathway, I definitely have learned a lot about how to be a good writer and reader. The most important success I have made is that widely using the quotation in my essay, which is seems as part of the god classical American essay. I did change a lot about how to write a correct quotation. And then, use the quotation to talk about my topic more deeply.

Here I have a comparison of my quotation using in my prior essay and recent one, between final draft of Singer Position paper and my rewritten of it. It can clearly show us the difference between them and the improvement I have made. First, in the final draft of Singer Position paper, I did not do well in the organization, format and explanation of a quotation. I wrote，“ What’s more, Singer holds an opinion which is that living high and letting die. As what the end of the story Bob says, ' The child is killed. For many years to come, Bob enjoys owning his Bugatti and the financial security it represents.' In such short words, Singer greatly satirizes Bob’s behavior which is heinous. It is possible to say that Singer feels a little bit helpless about human’s nature. He pointed out that selfish gradually change and control people’s mind.” I show the original sentence and analyze that Bob who is character in the reading material did a wrong decision for his selfish. However, the most important thing I lost is to rephrase the original sentence. Also, the format is terrible. I even forgot write down the page number. On the other hand, I decided to ask my instructor if I can rewrite it, I began to write a quotati...

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...t。 Singer Position Paper, I got a very low score. Even so, I still want to praise myself for being brave enough to ask if I can rewrite it, which is considered to be the most important step for my improvement. Then I used one hour to work on this essay after class. At the same time, I signed up for the writing tutor online, used my free time to meet with the tutor and fixed it at home as soon as possible. Above all I gradually improved myself. So, I become more and more self-conscious and responsible for the study of writing which I didn't have enough before.

To sum up, the most useful success I made is writing a good quotation. The last but not least, I never hesitate to talk with instructor and being active about my study. Theses not only writing skills, but also are correct attitude of study. I believe I can do even much better in the following four years' stud