Reflection 2

Reflection 2

This is the second meeting in this semester. Different from the first one, this time I have all my four annotations in the blog although they are not fully complete and organized. The main point of this meeting is focusing on the midterm exam paper. The original one which we have done in few months ago is really different from the revised version. This time, we have the comments from all the classmates in this class which sums total eleven. We need to adopt members’ comments and try to revise our article. However, this is really difficult for one person to make a big modification of his writing style which has been rooted in our inner patterns of grammatical system. Sometimes we know the problems of our own; nevertheless to accept the comments is one thing, to modify is another. Indeed, it is really difficult to modify the writing problems, but I will try my best to pay more attention to the blind points in the process of writing.

The main problem in my writing is the incoherence of each paragraph. The use of the conjunction words in the articles is really important. The way to connect your ideas is by using the conjunctions to make the whole article more fluent and organized. After the discussing with teacher and classmates, I learned some ideas and problems in my writing and also got the information of how to write my article well.

In the next part, I want to talk about my topic of the final paper. It’s been a long time since the first reflection had been posted. I remember that I have decided to make research about the relationship between the social values and the culture of cosmetic surgery. However, after I decide to choose this topic, I found that it is really difficult to find the research paper relate to the topic of the relationship between cosmetic surgery and self-image. Indeed I have the difficulty in getting the information. However, after surfing the Internet for a long time, I finally find a useful website that provides me with lots of articles that are helpful for me to go further to my study.

After getting the information I want and finishing the four annotations, the most difficult thing is to connect all the articles you have written into a large and coherent paper. In the process of writing, I have met the problem in connecting the four annotations together. Actually every article stands for different points and ideas. You must organize your whole paper into the coherent one. One of the ways to make essay more coherent is by using the transitional and conjunctional words well. This problem has been raised as my serious blind point before. This time, I pay more attention to this part when revising the draft and try to delete some inappropriate paragraphs which may make the audiences have difficulty in understanding. It really takes time in doing this long essay; however, once you finish it, you may feel a sense of accomplishment and feel much relieved.

Reflection

At first, I don’t have any idea about the topic of my essay, not to mention to turn in my homework before the deadline. Many of my classmates also gave me many suggestions for reference. It is no doubt that choosing a good topic that combined with one self’s interests is time-consuming. Thus, it manifests the importance of finding a good topic.

After a long time of searching information on the internet and through much consideration about the subject which is appropriate and interesting for me to develop, I find many topics and subjects that are related to the plastic surgery. I think that through the research of this topic, I might get more realized about the emerging culture of the plastic surgery. I think this topic is more interesting and workable than any other essays such as race or sex issues.
To begin with, I make a discussion about the ethical problem of having plastic surgery and the controversial ideas accompany with the surgery. Does having plastic surgery obey the natural laws of creation? Lately, I found that it is really difficult to make more stretch about the ethical aspects. After all, this research involves too many philosophic thinking.

To make my essay more smoothly precede, I try to find another aspect of thinking related to the plastic surgery. At last, I decide to make research about the relationship between the social values and the culture of plastic surgery. The study of social aspect is much more workable and interesting than the topic before.

However, the change of the topic means the reorganization of thinking. Besides overthrown the old thinking, it is also practicable to put some of the original ideas in the new use. But be care of the conflicting ideas which will make contradiction to the new argument.

From the brainstorming of prewriting to the production of an essay, the writer’s blocks are unavoidable. For me, the most difficult problem of my essay writing is how to have a wider thinking about the topic. One of the resolutions to this problem is to explore more about the information and references which might give me more understanding about this topic. In fact, there are still miles of ways before I writing a presentable essay.