EPC-D Charles

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2009-04-29-voa1-83143872/113491.html

In Taiwan,you can get a high score in the writing If you use many beautiful description、emotional sentence or details before presenting your own idea,but it doesn't work in United States.

It is the common mistake to Taiwanese because when we began to write in the elementary,our teacher taught us to use lots of metaphor and  descriptive words,so we also use this way to write in English.But we need to change our mind because according to this article,we can realize that it is the difference of the culture and the style in writing. In U.S,we need to show our main idea in first as well as attach your opinions,using short and strong sentence in the article.On the contrary,we usually put our idea on the end.

This conception is also using in the briefing.For instance,Steve Jobs is good at presentation when he release the new product of APPLE in the product launch,there are not more than three sentences on the screen,and every sentence are short、strong and powerful.His presentation is obviously to show his main idea which is easily to catch person’s eyes and focus.

Once I heard a experience about the undergraduate who went abroad in U.S.He mentioned a very important point that if your professor assign you to write a essay,you must to show your individual ideas whether you approval or not.It means you need to think、research、assume and find enough evidences in order to  support your own ideas about this issue.It is a useful information to any students whether go abroad or writing in English on the test.

Eventually, I think writing in English is not easy to anyone like us,but once you get a important point of writing from this article,then you will be better than before!