Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Characteristic Goal

Last year, I had a goal that I worked for several years, and that goal was coming out from ESL. This goal was very challenging for me, but I had achieved my goal. Since that was an academic goal, I am going to set a new goal that is about my characteristic but not about academic things. My new goal for this year is I am going to be kind to many people and I am going to help others. For me to achieve this goal I have to not be mad for something that is not so important and I am going to help others. Last year, I didn’t help people much, because I was kind of selfish, not think about others and I was mad for very little things. “A dream becomes reality when action is taken toward its achievement. -Bo Bennett” This quote helped me a lot to achieving many goals because it reminds me not to just plan a goal but enable for me to achieve it, I have to take action toward it.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

ChenHsiao’s Writing Goal for 2007

Goal 1- This year I will try to evaluate my own writing after finishing writing.
Method: I will look my writings few times over again to find some mistakes and fix the mistakes. Also, I will find my weaknesses in writing to improve my writing skills.

Goal 2- This year I will try to use lots of kinds of sentence structures in the writing.
Method: I will not only use same kind of sentence structure over and over again to make the writing boring. Moreover, I will not make sentences too long or too short to make the sentences boring or not give enough information.

Goal 3- This year I will practice to get a habit of use many things to help me to spell words when I am not sure how to spell a word.
Method: I will try to always use dictionary and other resources to help to spell words during the writing. Also, I will memorize more words, so that I can use in the writing and not wasting time by finding words in the dictionary.

Goal 4- This year I will use more sources to gather information for research topics.
Method: I will use news articles, magazine articles, documentaries, and many other things to gather correct information for research topics. After find information in the many articles or other things, I will try my best to change the information to my own words.

Goal 5- This year I will be more care about the organization part in the writing.
Method: I will try to put sentences in the right place to make the readers to easy to read and make picture in their minds.