It is often heard that in Western countries master students are assigned a lot of readings and assignments. It is true, but to be honest, in my university in Japan we were expected to read a lot of related books to the themes of courses too. The complete difference between Geidai and SOAS, students are provided a lot of opportunities to show the outcome of their homework. The contents and assignments of courses are strictly organized by teachers here.
Now I struggle to finish my homework since last Friday. I need to summarize and comment on a book about ethnomusicology. I had a right to choose one among several books, however I wasn’t able to find any books except one, which is Ethno-musicology by Jaap Kunst. It was quite a nice book because I knew (just) his name and it includes long appendix and index. There are 66 pages to read! But…the difficulty of this homework was beyond my imagination. I think I am familiar with reading books on music in English, but I had a few chances to train my skill to summarize and make a comment about a book in English. In training of IELTS academic writing, I believed I could improve my writing skill, but it was a big mistake.
Anyway, I will show my first writing homework here…
(just a moment)
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