Journal

Raymundo Hernandez

12-17-09

Writing 2A

3 Things That I Learned.

-Organizing Ideas. The information in a paragraph needs to be organized.
The writer must put the information in order. This makes the paragraph easier to read and understand. There are many ways to organize a paragraph. For example we can use time order. Also we can decide what information from the list can we use and what information cannot use. For example, I need to limit my paragraph. I have to decide what information from my list to keep and what information to leave out. In my opinion that works to make a good paragraph to use when I’m studying because it gives me a perspective to understand.

-Using Prepositions. Prepositions are usually small words, such as with, in, and at. A preposition and a noun form a prepositional phrase. These have many uses .For example; they can be a time expression. Time expressions tell when something happens. A time expression can go at the beginning or at the end of the sentence by putting a comma after a time expression at the beginning of the sentence. For example “They see each other on Weekends. Also I use in + a part of the day. Exception: Use at + night. For example: “Call me in the morning”. In my opinion this is an essential item, that we can use when writing and also when we talk.

-Makes A Complete Sentence. A sentence must have a subject. There must be a verb in a sentence. A subject can be a noun or a subject pronoun. Then the subject comes before the verb in a statement. Also a verb can have more than one object. For example: Mister Nakagawah told me that I need to write a simple sentence, so I wrote this: “Has five people in her family” and then he said that something is missing, he asked me: “ Who?” So the subject is missing. Then I wrote this sentence: “She has five people in her family” Then, this is not a complete sentence either. There are not verbs, so I wrote: “She has five people in her family playing football”. Now it is a complete sentence. In my opinion we must learn this subject because English is essential to communicate with people of another country Now I'm studying and trying to improve my English and get better every day. I’m still studying. I have come to accept that for me learning English will be like Spanish. That is to say, even when I am in Mexico speaking my own language and living in my own culture, I continue to learn new aspects of the Spanish language. English will be the same. Just as I will never “Know” Spanish, I will need to continue learning English for the rest of my life.