One of my goals is to improve my English writing skills. Although all my written work turns out to be very good, it takes me forever until I have it ready. I’m still missing specific words and expressions in English to present a document that is concise but accurate. Hence, my documents are typically longer than they ought to be, because I end up explaining things to make sure everything important is included. I’m also using the thesaurus, which can be very helpful, but time consuming and sometimes tricky. More than once, I have selected a synonym that was not in the right context, which, of course, changed the meaning of what I intended to say. Similarly, syntax problems have occasionally altered the factual meaning of the messages that I was trying to convey.
To achieve my goal, I plan to enroll in the Graduate Writing Workshop that is offered this spring. As the workshop includes lessons in grammar, usage, vocabulary, and the achievement of a sophisticated tone, it will be a great opportunity for me to improve my writing as well as my conversation skills in English. My goal in this course is to get an A, indicating that I have made progress made towards my goal. My ultimate goal is to write a meaningful thesis that is free of extra words in a reasonable time. This, of course, requires that I have to give up my idea of an “easy” spring semester with only one class (Thesis II) and TA work. The workshop is scheduled twice a week and requires us to produce at least five pages each week, which is lot, given the fact that I don’t like to write. But I hope that I will be rewarded with an easier thesis-writing semester . . .
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