Journal 4

In the previous journal I wrote about some of the problems that I faced in writing Department such as how I can write a good conclusion, and how I can make a good summarizing task. Thanks to some sites I was able to solve these problems and learned the correct ways to write them. In this article I will focus to solve other problems that are important in writing because it is the basis of good writing, such as sorting ideas and thesis statement.

In writing sorting ideas is very important because it helps us to have good ideas in our essays. On top of that, it is my biggest problem in writing. I have problem when I want to write in the exam because all the time I feel that I don’t have any good ideas to write about. To resolve this problem I used some ways. The first way I read some books that help me on the development of information I have and give me more ideas such as, some newspapers and some magazines like Al Ittihad newspaper and some magazines such as cultural. The other way is I listen to some of the programs that talk about a lot of cultural subjects such as medicine and the life programs. Some programs on the radio such as BBC. I listen to these programs and I tried to write about what I heard and this method helped me a lot in the development of ideas.

On the other hand, thesis statement is the second problem in my writing. What I learned from this websites http://www.docstoc.com/docs/7170834/How-to-Write-A-Good-Thesis-Statement is thesis statement is a tentative central idea. It is a generalization preparing the reader for supporting details that will follow. In a research paper it tells the reader what you will be proving about the topic. Also, it cannot involve my opinion or fact or question. To solve this problem I attempted to review some books that explain how we have good thesis statement such as, Effective Academic Writing book. This book helped me a lot because I choose some topics and I tried to make good thesis statement. That way helped me a lot because now I can write better thesis statement than what I had written before.

In conclusion, this journal focuses in writing specially in sorting ideas and thesis statement. Also, how can I solve the problems that I have in these to part of writing. In addition, to solve this I used websites and some books such as, Effective Academic Writing book and some newspapers. I will continue to use these methods because I felt some progress from them.

Journal 3

This week I did not have a lot of time to accomplish what I viewed in the Language Learning Plan, because I was busy in the completion of some other business. But I attempted to devote some time, and at this time I focus on writing part in my Language Learning Plan. In this part I need to work a lot especially in summarize tasks and conclusion.

First of all, my problem was I did not know how I can make a good summary and what a specification that makes it good is. Also, what is the method that makes a good summary? I thought a good summary must contain my opinion on it. But explain to me that I cannot, I would add my opinion on the summary. This is what I understood from this websites http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090130223125AAkBeL0.At first, you must express the sense of the original using your own words and structures. Next, you should not give your own ideas or criticisms as part of the summary. In addition, a good summary should not include selected examples, details, or information which is not relevant to the piece of writing taken as a whole. Finally, a good summary should probably include the main idea of each paragraph, and the main evidence supporting that idea. I tried it grabbed what I understood from this site on some articles in newspapers and on some lessons. And I felt I got some improvement and I will continue to get a good summary contains all the core ideas of a good summary.

The second problem was how I can make good conclusion. At first when you wrote the conclusion I could not write more than two lines. But this site explained to me that conclusion has two parts. First part must include the summary statement is one or two sentences which restate the thesis in a fresh way to reinforce the essay's main idea. The second part should include the clincher is a final thought which should create a lasting impression on the reader http://home.earthlink.net/~khatzi/essay/concl.htm. After I read this site got a lot of development in the conclusion, because I applied what I learned on this site that I have some scripts and I re-write again and I noticed that I can add more good ideas.

Obviously, what I learned from those two sites helped me a lot to solve these two problems. The first sites taught me how I can make a good summary, and I second site taught me how I can make a good conclusion. I used these two sites because the sites that I wrote in my LLP did not work because of this I change them. Also, I will work more to develop me summary and conclusion.