Hey, my name is Matthew Everson and i am a first year student here at Ohio State. I did not do to much writing in high school so blogs are new to me. I have only had to blog once before in my life and I did not do it so this is my first official time blogging.
The first year writing assignment was very interesting and it made me think about my writing past. This really made me realize that I do not like reading or writing too much. When I did write it was normally for a given topic assigned be the teacher. Every year I had to do atleast one research paper for my english class. The last research paper that I did was to compare a poem to a song. This was very challenging and it really tested my writing skills.
I do not recall ever writing analytically for an assignment in high school. This new style is very new and a little confusing. I will have to change my way of thinking because I do no feel like I am an analytical thinker. What I am used to is free writing as I did a lot of it in high school. In most of my english classes we had journals atleast 2-3 a week and they were free writing asignments.
I feel like I am pretty well prepared for the writing in this class and in college. With all of the writing help here on campus you just can not fail in your writing. I plan to use these resources to help me and look forward to the future writing assignments.
Hey Matt! I love your positive attitude about the class and your awareness of the great resources on the OSU campus. I agree that there's really no reason not to do pretty well in this class--you'll have a lot of support!
ReplyDeleteAnd, so far, your writing is great to read! You may have never blogged before, but you seem to have taken to it quite naturally.
You also mentioned that you don't think you've ever really written analytically...but I wonder if you actually have. You referenced a comparison paper you wrote in high school about a poem vs. a song. I bet you made some analytic moves there, considering the goals of each text and how (or if???) they were achieving them. When looking at stuff like poems and songs, I think we tend to naturally approach them in a somewhat rhetorical manner. I'll be eager to see what you decide to write about for this class!