Dear portfolio reader,
I am currently a junior student at Fudan University, majoring in International Finance and would like to welcome everyone who enters my writing portfolio.
English writing appeals to me because the way I am using it to express myself. The closer I can approach myself by using the language, the more pleasure I get. Thus, this blog offers me a ideal stage to practice and obtain pleasure. English writing motivates me to think in English and express as natively as I can. It is a very good way to practice my logical thinking. Besides, I sometimes enjoy writing English poems. Part of the reason comes from my hobby of studying lyrics. Every good song has very good lyrics, which inspires and touches me. I like those implicit lyrics with certain hidden messages behind the lines, which arouses my experience or alludes to some truth.
The reading log I chose is “A woman like me”. Part of the reason is that the author is from China and the main character, more or less, carries some Chinese traditional characteristics, such as introvert and lack of confidence. Moreover, the story intrigued my curiosity to the main character’s paranoia and abnormal mentality. I like analyzing people’s mind and personality. The more I can know the main character, the more I can understand what the author tried to express. Every time I was able to interpret the character’s thoughts, it felt like I unlocked the door. All the unlocked doors led me get to the thesis. On the other hand, however, I sometimes neglect how I feel about the story because I always try to analyze the story objectively. That is something I need to improve. Therefore, I tried to enclose more my own feelings towards the character and the design of the story in the reading log.
In terms of the essay, I wrote about “swaddling clothes”. I appreciate the author’s writing style very much, implicit yet penetrating. At the first glance of the story, I was not able to understand or hold the thesis. There were many questions coming up, such as why Toshiko’s behavior was so different from others’. Some details in the story aroused my attention. Yet, I found difficult to interpret them. It suddenly occurred to me that I should know more about the background and the author. After reading some information about the background and the author, Mishima, I was able to understand better. Then I learned that literature is never without reality. All the things the author tried to present us stemmed from the society he lived in; all the behaviors and thoughts presented in the story sprung from both the author and people around him; and all the details carefully designed in the story were trying to indicate the time and society.
After I was able to interpret lots of things in the set of the background and understand the thesis, I met another problem, that is, to quote the convincing evidence. Some quotation I cited was not good enough when I read the entire essay afterwards. I tried to tailor the quotations to my arguments and got rid of some that was not substantiated enough. Then the essay turned better. I suppose that these two points are what I learned most from writing such an essay. Compared to draft one, draft two is more precise in interpretation. And the final one is better at quotation.
From this writing portfolio, I am sure that you can see my improvements, as well as my strength as analyzing and interpretation. Besides, what I learned from this class is that writing is a good way to practice logical thinking. Moreover, I enjoy coming up with a wide rang of thoughts.
Sincerely yours,
Aaron Qi
I am currently a junior student at Fudan University, majoring in International Finance and would like to welcome everyone who enters my writing portfolio.
English writing appeals to me because the way I am using it to express myself. The closer I can approach myself by using the language, the more pleasure I get. Thus, this blog offers me a ideal stage to practice and obtain pleasure. English writing motivates me to think in English and express as natively as I can. It is a very good way to practice my logical thinking. Besides, I sometimes enjoy writing English poems. Part of the reason comes from my hobby of studying lyrics. Every good song has very good lyrics, which inspires and touches me. I like those implicit lyrics with certain hidden messages behind the lines, which arouses my experience or alludes to some truth.
The reading log I chose is “A woman like me”. Part of the reason is that the author is from China and the main character, more or less, carries some Chinese traditional characteristics, such as introvert and lack of confidence. Moreover, the story intrigued my curiosity to the main character’s paranoia and abnormal mentality. I like analyzing people’s mind and personality. The more I can know the main character, the more I can understand what the author tried to express. Every time I was able to interpret the character’s thoughts, it felt like I unlocked the door. All the unlocked doors led me get to the thesis. On the other hand, however, I sometimes neglect how I feel about the story because I always try to analyze the story objectively. That is something I need to improve. Therefore, I tried to enclose more my own feelings towards the character and the design of the story in the reading log.
In terms of the essay, I wrote about “swaddling clothes”. I appreciate the author’s writing style very much, implicit yet penetrating. At the first glance of the story, I was not able to understand or hold the thesis. There were many questions coming up, such as why Toshiko’s behavior was so different from others’. Some details in the story aroused my attention. Yet, I found difficult to interpret them. It suddenly occurred to me that I should know more about the background and the author. After reading some information about the background and the author, Mishima, I was able to understand better. Then I learned that literature is never without reality. All the things the author tried to present us stemmed from the society he lived in; all the behaviors and thoughts presented in the story sprung from both the author and people around him; and all the details carefully designed in the story were trying to indicate the time and society.
After I was able to interpret lots of things in the set of the background and understand the thesis, I met another problem, that is, to quote the convincing evidence. Some quotation I cited was not good enough when I read the entire essay afterwards. I tried to tailor the quotations to my arguments and got rid of some that was not substantiated enough. Then the essay turned better. I suppose that these two points are what I learned most from writing such an essay. Compared to draft one, draft two is more precise in interpretation. And the final one is better at quotation.
From this writing portfolio, I am sure that you can see my improvements, as well as my strength as analyzing and interpretation. Besides, what I learned from this class is that writing is a good way to practice logical thinking. Moreover, I enjoy coming up with a wide rang of thoughts.
Sincerely yours,
Aaron Qi
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