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Gulei Liu
Mr. Myers
ESL 1070
Learning how to write a Synthesis essay can help people better evaluate articles and collect
materials. That was the first time I write a synthesis essay for my English Composition class. I
am a Chinese student major in psychology, I could bring some new perspectives to my class
because I think critically, and I often think in special ways. The Synthesis Essay’s topic is about
Global Warming influence environments and human life through the living environment,
resources, diseases and so on. There are two articles be used in the Synthesis Essay, which
Wallace-Wells, both them talking about what influences from global warming. The first article
talking about global warming has caused earth-shaking changes in the whole natural
environment, and there are many data and examples to support it. The second article talking
about global warming has caused massive melting of glaciers, rising sea level, extreme
temperature, decreased food production, increased diseases and easy transmission, weakened air
quality, war, economic decline, and death of many living things. If human beings do not
significantly reduce using the number of natural resources and the emission of pollutants, human
beings will lose their living environment. Before I read the articles, I knew that global warming
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is caused by the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, which are from all humans use things
that generate a lot of heat, even humans. I also know that global warming has caused the melting
of polar glaciers and the loss of homes for many living things. It has also caused the sea level to
rise and some low-lying areas will be flooded soon. Based on what I already know, I found that I
didn't use all the ideas that would better support my ideas, and I didn't use the ideas of the two
articles equally.
For my reading process, I focused on the first and last sentences of each paragraph, which was
successful because I got the basic information I wanted, and where there was no intensive
reading was some examples and data, not the main idea. However, reading in English is a
challenge because students who are non-native speakers of English read articles with specialized
vocabulary and it is a problem to figure out the exact meaning of each sentence. After reading
some long articles, some ideas and data will create confusion. Because over a long period of
uninterrupted reading, some of the ideas that emerge in the middle, including its examples, are
lost or partially confused. This leads to more time spent rereading or searching. Therefore,
language and memory are my biggest challenges, but my successful strategy can help me solve
For my thinking process, I thought about using of the articles, I compared the two articles and
successfully found their similarities and differences, so that I could have a good understanding of
what is the most common problem of global warming and analyze the unique problem. However
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It is unsuccessfully got information from the first article, it was too short, and I didn't have much
information to use since most of the support was presented as data, so I couldn't find any specific
examples to cite in my article. In addition to the short article, there was challenging to make my
article reliable, the second essay is a collection of examples, most of them are predictions rather
than actual events, although many of the arguments are convincing. These ideas are predictions
based on the current state of science, and we don't know if anything will change in the future, so
they may not be completely reliable. Comparing the two articles allowed me to find their
common problems, but the lack of information and unrealistic predictions would affect the
reliability of my articles.
For my writing process, I was successful in linking some related problems together, so I could
list solutions that were specific to them based on similar problems. Nonetheless, it was a
challenge to write a new type of article for the first time. I had no idea how to write this kind of
article. I could only look at some examples or follow the outline given by the teacher to finish it.
When writing this kind of article, organizing language is a challenge. Because I need to gather
ideas from two different articles, it is difficult for me to make logical connections between two
ideas in this way of writing. This makes my writing stiff. Although I can combine similar ideas
in the article and get more development, the organizing ability of language and my unfamiliarity
Fortunately, I clearly understand my shortcomings, the lack of language skills. Specifically, the
amount of words and reading is too small, so I can't read the article quickly and remember the
content clearly. And I learned that I wasn't going to use my limited resources to get things done.
I was thinking about what else I could get, not what I already got. Moreover, I am short of the
ability to analyze and integrate data. Some data that is too complex and intertwined will make
me confuse. For my writing skills, language is still my biggest problem. My language level is not
up to a certain standard, which cannot express the vivid image of the article. Still, have to new
things fitness is not high, need some time to absorb new knowledge.
In conclusion, language is main challenge in this case, whether reading or writing, and it also
took me a lot of time to analyze the articles. Therefore, I will keep my successful strategies and
reinforce them and strengthen my English study. I need to recite more words, read more English
books, let my English level rise. I also want to develop more mathematical thinking, to be able to