Saturday, May 17, 2008

I love free-writing

The essay(or maybe I should call it the composition) below is the free-writing exercise done by we, English composition class D in today's class. Instead of lecturing, Jane, our teacher, firstly introduced some main ideas about free-writing. Suddenly, she asked us to establish a new word document and save it with our name. Then, we had three minutes to write anything we want to write. We could just keep typing and typing with our thoughts flying in the sky. Three minutes later, she told us to saved it and changed a seat, keeping writing. That meant we should follow the former writer's essay. Because that all of the essays were firstly writing without making an outline and thinking seriously, there were plenty of different kinds of essays from the busy life at school, mother's day to even introduction of oneself. That's quite a fun to continue other's essay or to be more accurately, to participate in others' essays.XDD
After five times of changing seat, we finally got to make a conclusion of an essay. We use the rest time sharing the funny or somewhat touching essays with others. When I listened to an article which was quite touching, I cannot but feel proud of my participation. When I listened to an article which was quite weird because of strange composition, I knew the importance of coherence. I think that it's quite a meaningful activity which makes English learning more interesting. And it's also efficient that we can remember the funny essay and remind myself that don't write like that. I hope that we can do more activities like this, and the class will be educational as well as entertaining:)
English composition become more and more interesting! I can't wait to be in the next class.XD

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