ARW Autumn

The most favorite point of the ARW Autumn class was Mark encouraged us to really enjoy leaning English. Indeed, I needed to study hard, but I enjoyed reading and writing. For instance, I could choose the essay topic that I was really interested in, and gain the advices to make my essay better at tutorial, so I was highly motivated and could tackle writing my essay.   

ARW Autumn class enhanced my English-language proficiency, because I gained deep understanding of the way to write an essay and the way to get main points. First, the explanation including elaborate handouts and tutorial helped me to enhance my English-language proficiency, especially reading and writing. First Mark explained us how to write an essay step by step by using not only SGW and LBH but also original handouts. The step by step process was suitable for me. For example, the ideas of hamburger structure and “ICE”, Introduce, Cite and Explain, were useful to think a structure of an essay. The “Essay Self-Evaluation” and “Checking Your Research Essay” were strongly helpful to review an essay by myself.  Second, tutorials solved my questions even though they were subtle ones. Second, Mark emphasized the importance to focus on main points. The advice changed my behavior to try to read and understand all contexts of articles. As a result, the speed of reading became faster than before. Thus, my English-language ability developed, but the level has not reached one I wanted. Thus I’m going to keep practicing making the use of the experience of the ARW Autumn class.