Blog Post #4

June Choi

EW2-020

October 31, 2015

 

How do comments affect to improve my writings?

 

Reference Image 1: Comment Policy- Beliefs of the Heart

The comments others have posted on my blog are not helpful to improve my writings for two reasons. First, people rarely leave comments on my writings. Because I could hardly find comments on my writings, I don’t have any chance to find my grammatical or structural faults in my writings. I believe that more feedbacks would make my writings rich and profound. I definitely look forward to receiving more feedbacks and concerns about my writings, so I could have a gist to decide whether my writings are on right track or not. Second, most of comments people left on my blogs do not talk about which part of my writings sounds awkward. I would like to be clear with ambiguousness in my writings and want to hear thoughtful comments that I can actually reflect on my writings. Instead of showing concerns about the contents of my writings, I prefer to have more comments on my structure of writings.

The comments I have posted on other blogs are helpful to improve both of my writings and writing skills for two reasons. First of all, if I find some grammatical or structural mistakes on others’ blogs, I go back to my blog and check whether I made the same mistakes as the writer did. For example, when I suggested not to start with FANBOYS in a sentence, I also double-checked to see if I started with FANBOYS. Particularly, leaving comments about grammatical mistakes help me to take a look at my grammatical mistakes. Second, I can learn dos and don’ts in writings. For instances, if I read others’ well-written paragraphs, I get motivated to make my writings better and attempt to apply the good aspects of their writings. This eventually leads to improvement of my writings.

In brief, leaving comments on others’ blogs are helpful to improve my writings and writings skills, but comments others posted on my blogs are not really helpful to improve my writings.

 

<Works Cited> 

Reference Image 1: Comment Policy- Beliefs of the Heart. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://beliefsoftheheart.com/comment-policy/ on October 31, 2015.

 

 



 

Blog Post #3: Global English Class

June Choi

EW2-020

October 17, 2015

Global English Class



 Image 1. Fairview School District

          Global English class helps students to be prepared for their future career for two reasons. First of all, Global English class allows students to experience a real-life practice as job seekers. For example, the class makes students find two actual job advertisements that students want to apply for the most. This helps students to think deeply regarding their future career field. Then students discuss with the professor to decide which job advertisement is the most appealing. After making decisions, the job interview sessions are progressed. Students prepare for the job interview as an actual job seeker, and the professor is expected to be a recruiter of the company where the students are likely to apply for. The students and the professor play the roles as interviewee and interviewer and take a rehearsal in order to be successfully prepared. Through the six weeks of the drills, students will learn the interview skills and dos and don’ts in the job interview. According to a syllabus of Global English 2, the course is aimed to assist students in further acquiring the necessary English verbal skills required to successfully obtain employment or internships in Korea, particularly in relations to the English job interview component of the hiring process for many Korean companies.¹ Second, a professor guides students to make their individual job portfolios in English. For instance, students in the class spend time in writing a resume and a cover letter. The students will learn the proper way of writing a resume and a cover letter in English, particularly formats and general tips. In the class of writing a resume, the guidelines are given by the professor to be tailored for a prospective employer. In the class of writing a cover letter, the professor points out key elements students should have in their cover letters. Kept the techniques of writing in mind, students start to write their own resumes and cover letters. Then a professor thoroughly reviews and offers writing tutorial service to students. Indeed, Global English class assists students to be completely prepared for their prospective careers because of its real-life practice as a job seeker and job portfolios reviewed by a professor.

 

<Works Cited>
 

¹Moses, Jeffrey. (2015). Global English 2 [Syllabus]. Seoul: Faculty of Liberal Arts Department, Sejong University.
 

Reference Image 1: Fairview School District. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.fairviewschools.org/about on October 10, 2015.