Portfolio 4

Being able to speak doesn’t mean that being able to write well in academic writing. Academic writing is totally different with essays we always write in our high school. The way we need to present, the points of view which we pointed out, and the choice to word or vocabulary is really makes is the entire essential for an academic writing. When comes to academic writing, there are 3 difficulties I faced.
First of all, I still have really master the way of presenting an academic writing. As I still get use to the previous mattered I always do in my high school, I find I quite difficult to produce an academic writing. It isn’t easy as I have to write views which are really a fact and needed references to support my views.
Second of all, lack of vocabulary is one of the difficulties I am having too. As English isn’t my mother tongue, I find it difficult express my opinion or idea in English. Sometimes, I might also afraid that I will write a sentence that directly translated from my mother tongue. In order to avoid that, I tend to use simply English to express which can’t really accentuate my point of view.
Third of all, when a writing question is shown up to me, I might not enough points to support the writing question. As lack of reading material and information regarding engineering development during my previous school time, I find academic writing on writing 500 words and above is quite difficult. Although through searching internet to get more information regarding the writing question is very convenient, I can’t do that during the exam.
To resolve and continue to improve the difficulties I faced, one and only way is to read more. Only read more can increase my vocabulary. Once I have more vocabulary, I will find it easier to express my view. Beside, read more also let me expose me on information regarding the technology and know more about the is the world is going on.