Assignment 9

    This was the first time that I have a group conference. I thought it little bizarre, because I thought the conference was the meeting with instructor to get a revision and advice on my essay drafts. The reason why I had this stereotype was that I took ESL 117 last semester, and they have few group revision and the conference hour was totally personal meeting with instructor. I went to the conference with 'no thinking' in my head. As I arrived at the place, I, frankly speaking, was frozen. Really! Because of pressure that people will read my essay and evaluate it, also, I also have to read their essays and make comments on them. To make matters worse, I was not confident with my essay at all, because I wrote in rush, so that I wonder if the essay has some ridiculous ideas, which can make others laugh. 
     The essay attracted my interest most was the Ryan's essay. He starts his essay with simple joke, 'Every year a portion of our pay check is deposited into the state and federal governments' checking accounts. It's called paying taxes. It's not called Taxidermy.'(1).  Ryan used the similarity of pronunciation between tax and taxidermy. Even though it is not quite related to the content, however, relieve readers from tediousness. Also he used his own word 'guardians of history' to effectively deliver the function of the taxidermy described in the article. 
    I've noticed that I have several ideas of mine linked with ideas in  David's essay. I found author describing the attitude of people making taxidermy in ' "I love deer." one of the champions in the whitetail division said to me.'(2) and 'The ultimate goal of a taxidermists is to make the animal look exactly as if it had never died'(4), and David found out the attitude of taxidermists in the word 'zoology nerd', which he defined it as 'passionate and obsessive nature of the taxidermist'(2,David). I felt David has same feeling with me when he firstly(may be) encountered the word 'taxidermy by this essay when I reading his second paragraph's first sentence, 'It seems Orlean is well aware that Taxidermy is a rare trade and many people to do not understand about the trade, and she consciously written every detail to make the essay interesting and informative to all audiences'(1,David). As he did, I was not used to the concept of taxidermy, and because the taxidermy is unfamiliar subject to common people, I thought the reason why Susan gives a lot of information about taxidermy was to relieve that. David's approach is exactly same with me! This idea can be found on 'As I looked thorough the essay, this is the piece which introduces a lot about taxidermy.'(2, Seungmin) and 'I think the author wants readers to know more about taxidermy, not just treat them as the thing which feels weird, but the piece of art created by a lot of people's passions to make 'LifeLike' features'(2, Seungmin). 
    I think finding out the similar points and the other's bright ideas will make my writing better and better. This adds up to my sources to write, give a wider view through the article. Finding out the idea of other person which is similar with mine also helps me a lot because it gives me the feeling that my idea is great!, so that I can have confidence on my work.