Since I had been out my home town for experiment for a week, I did not realize the fall semester at the Univ. of Virginia started. Full of Students!! I can feel my life is going to be crazy busy in this semester (My work does not depend on the semester though. ) But this busyness helps me to work harder.
I am currently working on writing skill. I hired my writing tutor, because I know, among the several language skills, the writing is hardest and difficult to teach myself. My ultimate goal in writing is publishing my book in English. I do not know whether or not that would happen. Anyway, I will have written the scientific papers in English throughout my career. Why not practicing my writing?
Let me share my experience with you on writing, especially for English learners. My teacher asked me to write “summary” and “paraphrase”. I thought I did not need to practice, because my objective is writing the book. I wanted to work on the longer writing, like 10 K words more. But, once I have done several assigned works, I just realized these skills are very important.
Both practicing “Summary” and “Paraphrase” helps you a lot on reading. Both skill need you to understand the text fully. You have to understand what author is saying. For summary, you need to catch main author’s point and describe clearly and shortly. For paraphrase, you had better use the different vocabulary and structure to describe what the author explain. These are hard jobs.
And I just finish reading “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell, and started reading “The art of thiking clearly” by Rolf Dobeli, and also am reading “Why nations fail” and “The romance of three kingdoms (Chinese classic literature)” These are very fun. Let me write here soon. I am sorry, but time to go for today. Let me write later. Have a good evening.