I am an ordinary student in Fudan University, without enough confidence. In the depth of my mind, I always think that there are so many excellent peers in this campus, so that I am not a noticed one, as together with so many outstanding students, I am not noticeable at all. Moreover, I almost never have the desire to show or present myself before the public, and I don’t want to be the focus among all. In fact, I gradually get used to this situation, even begun to enjoy it.
So, as a result of that, I become more and more love writing, as it is so private a thing. I don’t have to suffer the outside surroundings or other people, I can totally be alone by myself, overwhelming by my own thoughts, and then write them down. To me, writing is just something enjoyable.
At the beginning of this semester, I found there was a course called Advanced English Writing, instructed by Ron. I selected this course without hesitation, for on one hand I have the need to improve my English writing ability, and on the other hand this course is very fit for me, as students don’t have to present themselves but only have to write down what they want to say, which is just what I love and enjoy.
Ron is from VCU, the United States. First, he let us read four stories one by one, write our own reading log and discuss with each other. All those four stories are very wonderful, and written by famous writers in the history of literature. Then we started to do the essay – choose one story of the four and try to prove our own thesis. Thanks to Ron’s instruction, all of us completed the thesis first, and then draft one, draft two, and draft three. I believe that everyone tried his best to perfect his essay according to Ron’s annotations and suggestions, including me. Except for reading logs and the essay, Ron also makes us to practice the timed-writing, and also, he gives comments on each of our timed-writing essay. I have to say that, Ron is the most responsible instructor I have ever met in this university. Sometimes he has to read hundreds of drafts or essays within a week, but he never delayed; he tried to remember all our names, and he finally succeeded; he is always very glad to help students and never tired of that. I believe, all the students like Ron, and his teaching activity.
During the whole semester, I have learned a lot from this writing class. And I find my writing ability have a rapid progress, which made me very happy and surprised. I can remember clearly how I struggled to use a foreign language to express myself. For example, the thesis of the essay, I did the revise to it at least four or five times, for I could not use the accurate words or the sentence pattern is not appropriate. But with the help of Ron, I finally got a strong thesis, and completed the essay after times of revise. Ron said in his comments to my draft two that “You have a clear and strong thesis and you use evidence from the story to support it. The language is clear and flows well.” which made me so delighted that now I feel much more confident than at the beginning.
As a conclusion, I love this writing class as well as the instructor, Ron, through which and from whom I learned a lot and had an obvious progress in my English writing ability. What is much more important is, I am finding back my lost confidence gradually, which make myself have more smiles in the daily life. I will remember the class, and put my thanks to Ron deep in my heart, for ever.
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