Monday, February 9, 2015

Reader Response draft 1

In the article “Writing Your Way to Happiness”, Tara  (2015) states that writing one’s own experience can develop physical and mental health. The author believes that our world outlook and self-positioning depends on these personal statements. Stanford researchers once carried out a study on the college freshmen. Results showed that writing could encourage people and give them confidence towards their future. Tara(2015) also mentions that writing can help people to face the difficulties in their life truly. By taking example of a woman Siri in the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, she realised her real problems through writing. Thus, it is asserted in the article that writing indeed helps you recognize what hinders you and give you a chance to change them.
Honestly, I am quite agree with author's opinion, because writing can make people thinking deeper. Especially, when people writing about themselves. This is the rare chance to hear their inner voice, and they can find what they truly lack of or what they really need to do. Through writing about life journey, people can try to accept their real life, and they evaluate every element of lives and try to change life style. Finally, people could lead a better life with less regrets. I am also trying to keep an dairy, but , unfortunately, none of my dairy finished. However, I still get a lot from keeping a dairy. At high school, keeping dairy made me know myself better, and It tells me which subjects I should work on. My dairy also made me know I am an impatient person, so I am always trying to be more patient. Dairy also recorded every moment I have experienced. It leaves me an eternal memory.
References

Tara  (2015) states that Stanford researchers once carried an study about asking a part of African-American students to keep dairy or video to be seen by future students. The results have showed that the African-American students who cared about writing or video everyday achieved better grades. I was experiencing a period with a bad grade in my high school. At that time I really found keeping writing myself really helped me find my own problems, and promote me make more progress.
In conclusion, I agree with writing on people's own ways can help people.



References
Tara Parker-Pope. (2015, Jan 19). Writing Your Way to Happiness [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/writing-your-way-to-happiness/?_r=1&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Health&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=Blogs

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  2. content :
    wrong author's name.
    lacks convincing arguments and content.
    not enough work count.
    organization:
    structure of the reader's response can be improved.
    language:
    language could have been better phrased?
    punctuations not appropriately used.

    written by : luke, zhenliang and juetong

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