Writing in the Disciplines

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 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 ...

The dreaded week is finally over. Hopefully all of us have made it out of finals week alive and with good grades. I managed to pull off having mostly "A"s and "B"s in my classes. This week has been very stressful for my trying to finish all my work and study at the same time.  Luckily it is all over now. I had a final on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. I know that is considered being lucky because I was fortunate enough to only have two finals, however any amount of finals gives a lot of stress with it. Everyone should find there own way to get rid of stress after finals week. My way to alleviate my stress is I'm going to London in three days now! I'm so excited to go on this trip, I have been waiting all semester. The trip is part of my study abroad class called comparative justice systems. basically the class compares the United States criminal justice system with Great Britain's criminal justice system. I will be in London for about a week full ...