final reflection

1.Do you feel like your writing has improved this semester? Why or why not? In what ways has it improved? In what ways do you want to continue improving your writing? -At first i didn't know how to write a persuasive essay. But through this class now I can write persuasive essay using main sentnece and supportin sentences. 2.Do you feel like your reading comprehension skills have improved this semester? Why or why not? In what ways have they improved? In what ways do you want to continue improving your reading skills? 3.In what other areas do you think you have improved during the semester (grammar, speaking, vocabulary, confidence, etc.)? In what areas do you still need to continue improving? What will you do in order to improve in those areas? - Vacabualry semester improved. Because at first i'm not good at vocabulary, but through this class every time we studied vocabularise so my vocabulary has been improved. 4.Was this the first time you kept a blog? Did you enjoy blogging? Was blogging a helpful way to practice writing? Did you enjoy reading your classmates' blogs? Do you think you will continue blogging in the future? -Yes, this is the first time, i enjoyed that but a little problem was eventhough i was trying to make a paragraph, i didn't wokr. so my essay and blogpostings are not good in shape... 5.What did you learn this semester? What do you want to learn in future semesters? -I learned reading and writting and in the future i want to study speaking. 6.What were some of the best and/or worst aspects of this course? Would you recommend this course to others? Why or why not? -The best thing was have a chance to write an english essay. It was my first time. so I had many difficulty. but it was exciting. And the worst thing was eventhough i wrote all day writting essay, i didn't get a satisfied score...i must study harder...

rewriting essay2

Byun Min-Jung Prof. Kyle Brebner IERW (04) 20 November 2015 ‘Who should be responsible for writing history book’ Recently, there was an event that shocked Korea. The Korean government planned to write a national textbook of history. It means they prohibit private companies from publishing history textbooks and at the Ministry of Education, they gathered historical professors, teachers and made national textbook of history. This has caused many history textbooks are to be abolished and only a single history textbook can survive. This single textbook is the national textbook that was made by the government. In response, many professors, including Korean National University professors, and university students refuse this. All of them thought single textbook is not good for students. First, national textbook of history disturbs variety of interpretations. Because writers that government picked would wrote textbook in stance of the current government. So they will write advantage of current government. Although there is strong opposition, why does the current government want to conduct this plan? At first, through this plan, the government can select the publisher so they can control the information contained in the textbook. If so, it is certain that the textbook will be written with more favorable information for the current government. Especially in history, we can come up with Varieties of interpretations throw one historical event. Second, national textbook of history is not permit in democracy country. Currently countries that use national textbooks in the world are China, Taiwan Singapore, Vietnam, North Korea, Sri Lanka, and Mongolia. No country is using a national textbook among OECD countries. If Korea publishes a national textbook, it will be the only case in OECD. So we can guess why our nations disapprove of national textbook of history. It must put back the clock. And the introduction of a national textbook means that the government controls historical consciousness of the public. As I mentioned, countries use national textbook are communist countries or dictatorship. I can’t understand why the Republic of Korea does this plan. In the case of a severe ideological conflict in a country like South Korea, we may change the textbook every five years when the regime changes. Third, I think this is not right education. It means, the uniform interpretation of history is preventing a variety of views and eventually will corrupt. Also the national textbook of history has a dangerous of writing wrong. Why? The national textbook of history beautify truth of pro-Japanese and dictatorship of Park Jung-hee. When our country was a Japanese colony, there were many patriots but national textbook of history will never mention them. So we shouldn’t be teaching the truth to our children and descendants. So who should be responsible for writing history books? The government or private companies? I think both the government and private companies. If we write a textbook of history in the government’s stance that will certainly write in favor of the current government. It means, as I mentioned before we may change the textbook every five years when the regime changes. What a ridiculous situation that would be! Conversely, if only private companies write history textbooks they will be written by so many people that we can’t understand what is really true. Both methods are dangerous to the students who must study correct history. So my opinion is both the government and private companies should write together. History is more important than any other subject. Because knowing the correct history can understand past, understand present and expect future. Many Korean want our children, students can study right history. So please do not use power to make national textbook of history.