Practice day 1- 2018/8/14 journal Today I decided to practice English writing everyday and my goal this year is to improve my writing vastly. I remembered that I have been troubled for my unproficient English writing ability since I was in college. At that time, I was overwhelmed with the heavy course load. English writing was one of the challenges I encoutered and wanted to overcome, since nearly all the courses I took required me to answered my exams in English. But at then I was too busy with other challenge - reading, all forms of literary texts required by my major were super hard for me, some of them even written in ancient English. Because I was too busy struggling with the readings and also because I thought my writing would automatically improve as I read a lot, I didn't do any deliberate practice. But I found that my writing didn't improve as much as I expected. One reason might be I didn't write enough, so there are many words and sentence structures that I understand when I am reading, but I cannot think of them while writing, so I cannot appropriately express what I mean to say with various words and sentence structures. The other reason might be that what I read could not help me so much in writing, because they were too hard for me so I focused on comprehend the texts rather than paying attention to their word use, not to mention that some of them were ancient English that I will never use it in my writing. Therefore, I decided to do "deliberate practice" on my writing everyday. Hope someone could give me advice on whatever the grammar, word use or sentences structure so that one day I can master English writing and write like a native speaker.