Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Why I wake up at 7 in the morning and drag myself to RHE 309K
To be honest, I've always thought of myself as a weak writer. I never really thought I could write that well. I just felt like I made stuff up in English and somehow scrambled by with an A. I finally got a wake up call when I got my AP scores during orientation, passed Chemistry and Calculus, and failed Literature. I had never failed any of my AP tests, I guess there was a first for everything so it didn't really bother me, well it did, of course it bothered me, no one likes failing, but I accepted it, I was a bad writer and I couldn't do anything about it...until now. I was thinking about doing a writing course since in anything you do, you have to be able to be good at writing, it is an essential skill if you want to make something of yourself. I had been recommended by my friend Kaylinh to take this class because she found this class insightful and engaging and I was already interested in it because I thought it could help me write better and I would actually pay attention since the topic was over something I am really interested in. I ultimately chose to take this class for a couple of reasons, to improve myself as a writer and take myself out of my comfort zone of sciences, redeem myself from my previous failure, and to be able to write with confidence and knowledge about something that I do care about, a topic that I do find interesting, yet know so little about. I hope that by taking this course I will not only become more adapt to the many different aspects of rhetoric (that I have since completely forgot) but to become confident in what I say and what I write and not think I'm just making up stuff to get by.
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