Task 4: My Difficulties in English Writing

        Writing skill is vitally essential to express our ideas, opinions even the theory or the result of research. Some people think that writing skill is not very important to the engineering students because the engineering students always deal with scientific problem solving and experiments which are not required the writing skill. In fact, writing skill is a very important and essential tool to engineering students.
        As an engineering student, I found that a lot of assignments and reports of different modules require us to express our opinions and the result of experiment in academic writing. It can be a great challenge for me and those students who are not native English speaker. Hence, the biggest problem I am facing is my limited vocabulary in English that always discourages me from writing. For example, I have taken the EG1471 English course that required us to do a lot of essays, readings and text editing. Due to my poor vocabulary, I always spend several hours to organize and write an essay. Although I am managed to express my opinion very well in my mother tongue, I am unable to translate the meaning precisely into English. This makes my readers difficult to understand my expression.
        I have taken some actions which I think is efficient enough to improve my poor vocabulary. First, listening to English News can help me to improve my speaking skill and widen my vocabulary. Secondly, a newly-published dictionary is vitally required to understand the word meaning because there are always some changes of the usage of words. My vocabulary can also be improved through reading newspaper and articles. Moreover, asking question is crucial to clear the misunderstanding and doubt about the usage of words. It prevents us from making the grammar or usage mistakes again.
        As the saying ‘Where there is a will there is a ways’, so I believed I am able to manage the English writing skill well as I am determined to do it.