12/26(Learning journal 10)
Today I learned what thesis statement is. To tell the truth, I can't totally discern it from the topic sentence, although Miss Chen told us that the thesis statement is the main-idea sentence for the entire essay while the topic sentence is for a paragraph. According the guidelines mentioned in the material, I feel there are three which is as topic sentence:
1. A thesis statement must be a complete sentence.
2. A thesis statement gives an opinion, attitude, or idea; it should not just announce the topic of the essay.
4. A thesis statement is not a question(but will often be the answer to a question). (↑so is topic sentence)
However, I feel the most different guideline is 3th:
3. A thesis statement is more interesting when it expresses an opinion, not a fact because facts cannot be argued.

12/14(Learning journal 9)
To finish the assignment2, The different between living in dorm and home, I asked many friends for their idea. Although I got a lot of fun suggestions, it is really hard to conbine them into an article. Finally I gave up. I write this article two times because I am not satisfied with the first version. My friend also told my that my direction was totally wrong because I wrote " the different between living in dorm and living in rent house." When I heard this, I almost got crazy as I've wrote that article for many hours. Anyway, I still fininsh the assignment patiently.

12/7(Learning journal 8 )
This time we learned how to compare two different things and we read the article about two different teachers. I remembered I had wrote this kind of composition before. I compared two teachers and one of them was liked and the other wasn't. To tell the truth, I am not quite like write this kind of article because it is difficult for me to structure well. I like to brainstome and also can come up with a lot of idea, yet I just could't combine them orderly. Therefore, sometime I feel my articles could be seperated by several part. Is that Ok? Is it a bad phenomenon?