IV. Reflection in English 121

IV. Reflection in English 121

Writing summary, paraphrasing a sentence and writing topic sentence were the main difficulties I met. As I did not learn summarizing thoroughly during my secondary school life, I did not have much knowledge on writing a good summary. I always change the meaning of the passage after summarizing which made me feel frustrated. As for paraphrase, it requires the use of variety of vocabulary and sentence structure. However, it was hard for me to think of a synonym immediately after reading a sentence. I had to spend quite a long time on thinking. Moreover, writing topic sentence was another challenge to me. At first, my topic sentence was said to be too general. When doing the research project, the first topic sentence also could not reflect the central idea of the paragraph. I am required to rewrite it again. To solve the above problems, I did extra exercise, tried to remember more vocabularies and discussed with the lecturer.