Students Experiences In Sweet Land Stories, By Edgar Lawrence Doctorow

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, a notable figure amongst novelists who had written some of the best literature we have read; Sweet Land Stories and All the Time in the World had once quoted, “Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” Though some individuals are blessed with the gift of writing, students at a second language level in English may find it not so easy. An idea that we believe in which is deeply inspired by an outstanding poet, Sylvia Plath, is that writing should be motivated by allowing ourselves to live, love and say all we wish to in good sentences. Although content is a major factor in writing and it is likely that many students in secondary school can splatter flowing word vomit without any doubts, several
As the aim of their case was to investigate the challenges of writing through students and also teachers’ experiences, they had used an interesting method in discovering a conclusion to their study. We especially favoured the idea of taking thirty ESL students to pen out their own versions of one given theme to evaluate their writing errors as it was kept simple (The Place I Wish to Visit) which would most likely produce the best results. These written mistakes were then compared to the feedbacks given by the teachers who had answered a questionnaire (developed by M. Nazim, J. Ahmad, 2012) consisting of the types of errors that commonly occur in students’ essay writing. The ample findings of the study were satisfactory as both the comments from the English teachers and outcomes from the students’ writing samples had correlated. A thorough review on the study will be presented in the next few
In the article, the authors had mentioned … To quote a few; “If writing is just an anxiety for students, it means they should do nothing except a chore” and “they are also tackling with difficulties in writing assignments, meeting deadlines as well as getting the best quality of their final writing.” When we really put our minds to it, pressure is really the key reason that so many students lose heart and motivation. They are pressured to write more than they feel they can, they feel pressured to not misspell words that they probably know how to spell correctly and they feel pressured to move their writing along, to not ramble, to use the right grammar, proper pronunciation, to ensure their handwritings are legible. Though this is so, they worry so much that unless they are able to coordinate all these skills, their work is not good enough. Not “perfect”. This is where the second objective comes in, the perception of the educators. The authors had intended to interview ESL teachers to receive feedbacks on their students’ writing problems. To keep in simple, we believe that motivation comes from the desire to get a positive reaction. The third objective of their study was to suggest some possible