Summary: This essay is about how international students have trouble adopting to the writing styles in the United States. This article involves the differences in the ways nations around the world write essays differently. This article focuses on how these differences in writing styles of international students affect the student education at Tufts University. In the United states we focus primarily on things like the thesis sentence, introductions, and conclusions. Every essay has to follow a certain format. Its all very structured and traditional. “The American way of Writing” Its starts at a young age and then it just evolves. Its called the “five-paragraph essay” which we all know consists of an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. To international students this sometimes comes off as something completely new to them. They have no background as to how to write Americanized essay and this can sometimes end up being an issue especially in college. Professors sometimes don’t understand this and thus international students are placed at a disadvantage in comparison to someone who is native to the United States.
Question: Is a language barrier important when it comes to writing? Do students born in the United States have the advantages of being better writers than someone from another country?
Response: My essay involves different styles of writing and how some students may be good at writing in a certain style such as poetry or fictional writing etc. I chose this article because i thought it could broaden my question and now I can even include language barrier as a disadvantage when it comes to writing styles. I could say that students from different countries have different writing styles and incorporate that into my writing draft. I learned a lot about how writing styles differ between nations. I always thought writing was a global thing. I always thought that writing was the same in America and it was in China but through this article I have learned otherwise. "The Chinese have something called the ‘Eight-Legged Essay,'" Lowe said. "It's this extremely ancient, complex form in which you as a writer are supposed to explain to the reader why you chose this topic, why it's interesting and what past scholars have said about the topic, etc. To an American reader, it may seem like ‘Where's your point?' But it's just another very different style of writing." I thought that was interesting because it shows how us Americans think as writers. We’ve all been taught the same basic things and people in China have apparently been taught a different form of writing. It does make it wrong. Its just different. I definitely want to add styles of other countries to my draft two and expand my question to involve not the United States but the world as a whole.
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