Writing

As a student in China, we were required to do very beautiful writing. What's that meaning? It is that we should use very beautiful words and some examples that others don’t know. We should put an essay into many paragraphs and every paragraph should have its own meaning of existing. In the beginning, we need a very good and attractive start. For example, we should use parataxis or put an idiom in every sentence. In addition, the good words are very important. Maybe, if you have many good words in an essay but the grammar is not good enough, teacher would give you a good score. During most time, we don’t need to do research because the examples and good words should be remembered by our heads. However, if the essay is very long and we need to spend long time to finish it, we could do research like finding books in library or searching internet.
In fact, writing tasks in the United States are very different from writing tasks in China. Of course, we paraphrase or summarize examples in China. In China, an essay with too long examples is a bad one. Therefore, we need to paraphrase and summarize examples with beautiful sentences. In the United States, it’s also important. We should use the skills because we should put the useful information in our paper. In America, we must adhere to styles such as MPA or APA when we are composing our papers because we could not copy others. It means stealing and hurting others. However, in China, we could not copy the whole essay. In contrast, if we write some sources, we could not write the address because the teachers would know it is from other place and that is enough.
Indeed, there are many differences between Chinese and American writing. However, we should understand and identify with it because different countries have different cultures.