Getting more understanding

Wow, my writing class becomes more exciting. On Friday, September 14, 2012, we were discussing about descriptive, procedure, comparative, and illustration text. Before coming to the class, I thought that the meeting will be boring, because all of people had known about how to look for a good text from the previous meeting. But, suddenly, appeared a funny text to discuss. And it made an exciting discussion,,, Why??? Because the text given by the presenter has been modified. And obviously, the presenter cut a main idea from each paragraph. So, that’s why it’s not coherence. But, from this case I get a new lesson.

• ·         We can’t cut a part of a paragraph if it makes ambiguous.

Then, we continue our discussion. It’s about Nita’s illustration text. At the first sight, I supposed that it’s a description paragraph. Because, some text describe Ganjitsu in detail, such as “The main decoration is a sacred rope decorated with ferns, oranges and lobster.”But, the lecturer said that describe isn’t only telling “what” but also showing “how.” How’s the shape/sound. And it must describe something in detail. Not only detail in appearance/in one side. But, totally detail.
            Next presenter gave me much knowledge about topic sentence.  She has a good paragraph, but, we don’t find the topic sentence. And this is the new knowledge I got

• ·         The whole first sentence is not always being a topic sentence. We can make topic sentence by our self. As long as it isn’t in opposition to the main idea.

That’s all my reflection. I wish it will be useful for us…