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In my engineering classes, I have writing tasks only in lab. Although it seems that writing a lab report is not as difficult as writing a poem, it is still difficult for me for a various reasons. At first, since I have never write lab reports in English, I need some time to adjust to this kind of writing style. In my hometown, I have only written lab report in Chinese. The English lab report is a totally new thing for me. Besides the new writing style, I have difficulty in the accuracy in writing the lab report. I do not know the name of those apparatus and laws. Most of the time, I can merely use some simple inaccurate words to replace those unfamiliar words. The lab report written in this way will definitely not be nice. This is also a major problem. I had just done a physics lab this morning. When I was writing the lab report, I found that it was even harder than conducting the experiment. I met many situations that I thought for a name of something I used during the lab. I even do not know how to find those names in dictionary. These are the writing difficulties I meet in engineering classes. To solve this problem, I need to enlarge my vocabulary. I should remember more words to help me understand the experiment and write lab reports. However, it is not easy. Some words I will not meet except in experiments. For these words, I can only try to take some note whenever I meet them. It will take a long time. All in all, to learn English well, working hard is the only way.