Academic writing is a new topic that I learned in this year 11 English subject. When I got an assessment notification from my teachers, Mrs. Laura and Mrs. Karla, it surprised me a lot. The assessment notification acquired us to make 4 different types of essay structure, 5 different types of language feature with 1 topic of our own choice. The types of essay structure are complete essay, partial essay, visual essay, and a blog. The language features are compare & contrast, persuasive, reflection, opinion/reaction, and research.
The topic that I chose for this assessment task is about GPS. GPS is one of important technologies in this modern life. It has a lot of advantages like protecting our car, give specific direction to a destination that we chose such as restaurants or gas stations. GPS has a big impact to the societies in changing direction from using paper maps. GPS also has some disadvantages like it is expensive and hard to be installed in the vehicles.
To be honest, I feel that the hardest challenge for me is to make a compare&contrast complete essay. Making a complete essay is not as easy as I thought before. I decided to compare and contrast the advantages between GPS and a paper map. After I made some drafts and turned it into my teachers, I found that I made a lot of mistakes, especially in my grammars and paragraph structure. I tried to fix the mistakes and improve my essay by asking my teachers and my friends for some opinions. It was really helpful for me, and finally my essay became better either in grammar or the structure.
Otherwise, the best piece that I am most proud of is a persuasive visual/multimedia essay. I made an advertisement about GPS and I included some best GPS applications in that advertisement to persuade the readers. This visual essay is the best piece for me because I made it by handmade and with the best ingredients that I bought from a book store. This type of essay made me learned how to persuade readers so that they can trust with what I said and think with the same point of view like mine.
From this topic, I learned many things like using grammar and spelling checks, make footnotes, citations, make bibliography. I also learned how to research something, persuade readers, compare and contrast one thing with another thing, react on something and reflect like making this blog. Other things like making complete essay and partial essay also useful for our knowledge and our future. The teachers also made us learned to turn in the drafts before the assessment task is due. They checked the drafts and made valuable comments for us, so that we can improve our essays to become better final drafts.
In the nut shell, I am glad because I had this amazing opportunity for learning lots of new things. But I think I still need to learn how to improve either my grammar or vocabulary. It is interesting for me to learn about this topic and I hope that my friends also feel the same way like me.
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