For your first assignment for this course, I would like you to write a short, impromptu essay about your personal history as a writer and your goals for this course.
Begin by reading the following questions and thinking about them for at least a minute or two. Take your time both thinking about the questions and composing your response. You have until the end of the class period to finish your essay, but this should only take most of you around 10 minutes or so.
• What role does writing play in your life? Do you write daily? Just for school?
• Do you consider yourself a strong writer? What are your personal strengths and weaknesses?
• How do you think writing is important to your long-term academic goals?
• What writing courses have you taken? What did they teach you? What do you wish they taught you?
I will use these essays to place you into workgroups. You will remain in these workgroups for the entire semester and work with the other students to build and complete your blogs and workshop one another's writings. I do my best to create groups whose members share common interests, backgrounds, and goals, so the more you can tell me about your personal history and goals as a writer the more likely that you will be placed in a group that will help you to achieve these goals.
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