Dear Past Self,
You may think that your writing skills are awful and the scores on your high school AP tests and your ACT seems to reflect that. I know no one has helped you improve your writing or actually taught you something worth while to make you a better writer. You just have to wait for college because you will have some incredible professors and a writing center that will expand your knowledge of writing far beyond you ever thought was capable.
You may think that your writing skills are awful and the scores on your high school AP tests and your ACT seems to reflect that. I know no one has helped you improve your writing or actually taught you something worth while to make you a better writer. You just have to wait for college because you will have some incredible professors and a writing center that will expand your knowledge of writing far beyond you ever thought was capable.
You will take college writing 1 and 2 with Mark Letcher. he will teach you a wide variety of writing styles. You will learn how to efficiently organize your outlines and turn them into valuable drafts ready for revising. You will understand the importance of revision and sharing your work to be critiqued even if you don't like it. These two classes will expand what you thought writing was and it will make writing the never ending amounts of papers seem relatively easy for you. To make a comparison to what this will be like for you. Before taking theses classes you are like a baby bird that can't fly yet. Each time you try that first flight you fall down and feel that much more discouraged. After you take these classes you will be able to fly and you will never want to stop flying because it feels so good.
Next you will take professor Bonnie Kyburz and her writing in the disciplines class. She will teach you all about your future writing needs for your profession. You will learn all about police reports and different methods and styles of writing them. You will be able to articulate why you want to do what you want to do for the rest of your life. Most importantly she will crack you out of your shell and make you write about things that you thought you would keep internally. She will also make you step up to the plate and become a leader to your peers by organizing multiple group projects. She will help you become more comfortable presenting and public speaking in general. All in all don't think writing is a lost cause, things will turn out for the better you just have to give it time.
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