miércoles, 3 de septiembre de 2008

Writing Improvement


Only Felipe wrote the last post on his blog and I tried to make some corrections on it. After reading his post I could realize that his writing problems have to do with the wrong word order and the spelling mistakes. On his two posts before he made the same kind of mistakes.

For example, in his word order mistakes he says: “the effect greenhouse” instead of the greenhouse effect, or “My personality I will assume that change in the future”, instead of saying “I assume that my personality will change in the future”.

Also he tends to confuse some words which could change the whole meaning of the sentence. For example, he says “warning” instead of warming when he talks about global warming.

I really think that he should read once again his writings before choosing the last he will publish. Sometimes, you can realize about your mistakes when you carefully read what you wrote. In this way while you read you realize about your mistakes.

I believe that when you are recently starting to learn a new language, those kinds of mistakes are made by different kind of students. Some of them realize about their mistakes before others, but while they are practicing they start to be concerned about what are their weaknesses and strengths.

The most difficult things to correct are the tenses, because you may not know the writer’s intension and if he is talking abut the future of the past. By this I mean that some students tend to confuse tenses because they forget about with tense they started to write and they do not make a difference among the past, present and future.

5 comentarios:

Sebastopol dijo...

Im agrre with you
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see you

Sergio dijo...

Hi Javiera, I've seen you have improved your writing a lot, really. If you allow me to make a correction, you don't need to write the preposition "about" after the verb "realize", you only realize something. With regards to the mistakes that students from U. de Chile make, I agree with you. They are beginners' mistakes and I hope we can help them improve!!
See you Monday!

Cris dijo...

I hadn't realized the importance of reading the own piece of writing right after having written it...I will definetely give some advice on that to the UCHILE students.
thanx!

PABLOTREY dijo...

hello Javi!
Hey I couldn't agree with you more.
I think you were so clear on your post that definitely it is an advice for me as well, because I do not check very well my writing when I create it and express my thoughts on it.

Excellent. =D

Anónimo dijo...

Well,I trip a lot too. In 2 week I will traveled to Alhue (3-4-5 sep) and Huasco (6 to 12 sep). All this for my career.

Thanx for help me learning English.