The 'morphology' of this blog has changed, and the blogger changed back to me, Andrew Sun. Initially I started this blog only to strengthen my English but later as it appears this blog in effect established the identity of me on the Internet. I was shocked that a professor earlier offered me a PhD opportunity and mentioned my blog in his replying email. It seemed the content of the blog impressed him to some extent. After this event I started to consider this blog more seriously. I re-wrote the profile which now better describes me, and changed the style-sheet into a more active one. I also canceled some nonsense widgets such as Flikr badge, and the weather man picture, re-organized the subscription section, and added a 'Selected Posts' section where I pick some posts that worth reading.
Changes in the 'bulk' are also being observed. In the future, besides posts of paper inspiration, I wish to blog more on experimental issues. But I am not going to follow what some other chemical bloggers are doing - posting about the interesting, funny but not necessarily significant aspects of experiment (e.g. odd equipments, beautiful colors of the reagents or products, etc.). But I am not criticizing them; in fact I love these funny chemical nonsenses. I don't do so only because my English is not strong enough to maintain such a sense of humor. What I may fluently talk about is something like the 'Materials and Methods' or 'Experimental Section' in an article. Of course I don't simply write a draft of Experimental Section here; instead I concentrate the reason of the selected materials and methods, that is, the progress of designing an chemical experiment. This is a significant aspect of a chemist's life but one cannot learn from formal literature sources. So it is blog's turn to fill this gap.
4 comments:
Your English on the blog is really very good.
I've noticed that experimentals tend to be fairly universal. I can read through most of them, regardless of language, as long as the alphabet doesn't change.
Thanks for encouragemet. I did try to post some photos of my experiment but I found it difficult to express what's funny about them though I did feel they are really funny. I checked Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms for the word funny and got: laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, comic, comical, risible, and droll, each having its specific usage. Quite a lesson indeed but these words only make the text more wordy and dull...Anyway I think I need to be a native English speaker, or at least live in an English speaking country for some time to master the control of the 'jargoning' or 'mocking' style of writing. Or is there any reading recommended?
Hmm. I'm not entirely sure what to recommend or whether I should even be the person to recommend it. Since this is all written, though, maybe you should try some other reading material? (I'm guessing that most of what you read that's in English is somewhat serious or technical?) Maybe you could give fiction a try--it might fill in some of the subtle points that are hard to pick up (slang, idiom, etc). Kurt Vonnegut, who died recently, was an excellent author, and David Sedaris has some really funny stories. I'm not sure what's available in English in print in your area, though. If it's written on the internet, though, and it's not blocked, it's (probably) free.
warhammer gold warhammer money warhammer accounts tibia money tibia gold tibia item runescape accounts buy runescape accounts runescape money runescape gold runescape gp runescape power leveling runescape powerleveling cheap rs2 powerleveling runescape equipment buy rs equipment runescape runes cheap rs2 runes runescape logs cheap rs2 logs runescape items buy runescape items runescape quest point rs2 quest point cheap runescape questpoint runescape gold runescape items runescape power leveling runescape money runescape gold buy runescape gold buy runescape money runescape items runescape accounts runescape gp runescape accounts runescape money runescape power leveling runescape powerleveling tibia gold dofus kamas buy dofus kamas wow power leveling wow powerleveling runescape questpoint rs2 questpoint Warcraft PowerLeveling Warcraft Power Leveling World of Warcraft PowerLeveling World of Warcraft Power Leveling Hellgate money Hellgate gold buy runescape logs buy rs2 items cheap runescape items Hellgate London gold Guild Wars Gold buy Guild Wars Gold runescape items rs2 accounts cheap rs2 equipments lotro gold buy lotro gold buy runescape money buy runescape gold buy runescape runes lotro gold buy lotro gold runescape money runescape gold cheap rs2 powerleveling eve isk eve online isk buy runescape power leveling rs2 power leveling tibia gold tibia item runescape accounts Fiesta Silver Fiesta Gold Scions of Fate Gold Hellgate Palladium Hellgate London Palladium SOF Gold Age Of Conan Gold AOC Gold ArchLord gold tibia money tibia gold runescape accounts runescape gold cheap rs2 powerleveling buy ArchLord gold DDO Plat Dungeons and Dragons Online Plat
Post a Comment