Academic English - cannot enjoy writing anymore

I am not good at writing in academic English. One of the reasons that can explain this might be a lack of practice. In order to overcome this, I decided to write a short essay everyday and learn from mistakes.

writing in English trouble

Before I entered to the university, I enjoyed writing. I think writing is a way to explore your heart and expose your deep thought to others. The feeling of reading the essays you wrote is magical. It is just like talk with another people. Moreover，we can our previous thought with our current opinion. I also like keep a diary. A diary can help me to record the things that are meaningful to memorize. When reading our diary，the moments with laughter and tear come back to life. There is an old saying goes that life is a memoir. The more we memorized，the more we can experienced from life. I have kept the habit of writing diary when I had some thoughts or feelings that I wanted to record till now.

Things got changed after I entered to the university. We were told to write essays of 1500 words at least. We are required to use professional knowledge we studied in academic English and the score of essays will be included in the result of the semester. However，the professional knowledge we learned is not enough for us to write a long essay，let alone in English. My task is just to collect the opinions from others and paraphrase arguments from those so-called professionals，then add some cohesions and arrange them in order. It is obvious that I cannot get a high mark. I know that my writing is really bad cause the things my English teacher taught me in middle school cannot be accepted by teachers in the university. The first time I wrote a paragraph at class， I remembered my teacher criticized me that'just use a Chinese way to write in English'. I feel confused and do not know how to improve the phrases. Another point always bother me is that academic writing has a lot of requirement. Finally，the low mark of my essays discourages me from writing and I cannot enjoy writing anymore.

[I will be really grateful if somebody can give me some suggestions to improve this short essay better. Thank you in advance!]

Hi adriana! Don't feel discouraged! If you want to improve your writting skills, you just have to make it a goal! What I'm feeling1 with your essay, eventhoug I'm not the best at writting, is that you jump without any conector from idea to idea. There is lack of coherence.

dear friend, after reading your essay, i need to admit that you are quite good at writing. The only thing you need to improve is coherence: it is necessary to show the clear link between ideas.

Regarding to your assignments at University, I think there are some ways for you to deal with them better:
1. You should learn how to paraphrase effectively. To get essential materials, you can search this phrase on the Internet; another ideal choice is material in TOEFL intergrated writing task.

2. You can approach articles which are similar to your assignment. For example, if your're major in Chemistry, you can search several publicized summary about chemistry, they are available on many websites and journal. I think the way authors express their idea is needed for you

Adriana, remember that all sentences need to meet the subject-verb agreement requirement, your sentence that says, we can our previous thought with our current opinion. doesn't make any sense. Where is the verb in relation to the subject? Be conscious of the English writing rules such as the one I mentioned because those help to create properly represented sentence discussions. You also need to improve upon your use of connecting words and there is a problem with the way that you do not use a plural form where you have to. These are basic writing mistakes that often find corrections as you improve your writing skill over time. However, simply writing and writing isn't going to improve your skills. You need to make sure that you also read a lot of books, magazines, newspapers, and other essays in English. You learn to write better and develop your own writing style by reading the other writers. Take what you like from them style and incorporate it into your own. That will create your personal "writing style" in the long run. Remember, the key to writing well is not just writing practice, but learning from how those before you wrote as well.