| [ USA ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): deepsky (햅쌀) 날 짜 (Date): 2008년 12월 09일 (화) 오전 11시 29분 57초 제 목(Title): Re: 언어 구사의 변천 Practice, practice, and practice. There seems nothiing better than this. I do envy and respect her persistence. (Sorry that I'm writing in English. It's just a by product of my malfunctioning computer.) I believe the blog is easily searchable under "astrostatistics" since there's no blog similar to it. Because of its unknown territory and particiality among scientists (I sometimes drive it), it's just a boring blog. Not exciting as other personal blogs. Once in a while, I read my own postings after it become public. I see typos, grammatic errors, lack of fluency, lack of parsing, etc. But I have no choice to make this thing alive. Revising too many times sometimes leads me to drop the post off. While in graduate school, there were courses about academic writing. I think I took every thinkable courses. For non-native graduate students, for native graduate students, and for undergraduate science majors (I few times regret that I didn't take one for business majors ^^). I had a couple of writing courses in Korea. Too many courses but there seems no gain, except good grades. Although I worked hard, I couldn't acquaire that sense of your friend's and couldn't change the Korean way of thinking. This Korean thing has been a big obstacle in various aspects. Now it restrain me from looking for a job. There are helpless things regardless of the effort. Nevertheless, I didn't give up. I'll keep writing and being humiliated if someone wants to disgrace my writings. Actually, I want those criticisms desparately to learn more. People are too polite in general. I remember a scientist from Bulgaria. She said she add her american collegues as authors because of her english. Proof reading deserves an acknowledgement but not authorship. I thought to myself it's absurd but now I feel that I have to do the same. I couldn't help envy those who are good at writing, speaking, and thinking according to the culture (They also good at Korean. No doubts!) |