Announcements

2/24: BRING COPY OF ESSAY 1 to CLASS

In addition to submitting your Essay 1 as a Word Doc, please have access to your Essay 1 draft in class. You’re welcome to pull it up on a laptop/tablet or bring in a hard copy. You’ll work from there to edit the draft in class.

01/29: ROOM CHANGE: MEET IN KIELY 429

We were granted a room change! Tonight we’ll meet in Kiely Room 429. See you there at 6:40pm.

01/27: Introduction: Welcome to the Anthropocene

Why learn to write well?

Here’s what you said:

  • Because it’s how we determine how we think
  • It’s a tool for applying ideas
  • How we communicate / express ourselves
  • Always contains power dynamics / Standard English is a colonial language and often a gate-keeping tool for exclusion / inclusion
  • It can influence & persuade us in positive or negative ways

And here are the results of the in-class survey…

In what ways do you want to improve as a writer?

  • I want to be able to make my writing flow really well, and make it easy to read and understand.
  • I want to improve on my fluidity with words so I can better convey the message or idea that I am trying to get across.
  • My first language is Spanish, so I want my writing to flow better.
  • Better structuring and usage
  • Improving on organizing my thoughts into structured writing
  • Learn to write properly. I don’t even know how to do a thesis. 😐
  • I would like to be able to get to my main points faster.
  • I wanted to be able to convey my thought and feelings in a concise manner.
  • I want to grammatically make sense when I write. My ideas don’t always translate into perfect English when I write an essay. I want to improve my vocabulary when writing.
  • I would like to improve my grammar.  I would like to finish my [degree], maybe go to grad school or find a job.
  • The time it takes me to write a paper. I always write and delete right away because I always think I can write better.
  • …I’m lacking vocabulary, proof reading, making a [text] make sense in a conversation. I also want to improve pronouncing some words correctly and improve my handwriting. My goal is to be a better and creative writer by learning more English words.
  • My grammar
  • Essay construction in English

In terms of this class, what are you most dreading? Why?

  • I dread writing.
  • Writing.
  • I don’t really like writing a lot to be honest. I really prefer quality over quantity.
  • The whole class. I’m not good at English even though I was born and raised here.
  • A large workload, I don’t like writing a lot and I’m pretty sure there will be a lot of it in this course.
  • Having a long paper. I feel as a paper gets longer, I tend to repeat the same information over and over.
  • Long papers…
  • A paper with length
  • Writing a certain # of pages.
  • Attendance [because of] “new schedule”
  • Lack of constructive ideas, lack of vocabulary
  • In terms of this class, I’m mostly dreading about…failing because I, at times, find it hard to accept my failures. I fear [my] writing isn’t good because of lacking vocabulary and I’m terrible at proofreading.
  • Reading a bunch of passages that may be too complex to understand or a text I can’t relate to, which leaves me uninterested.
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