Hello! I enjoyed my high school writing experience.  I went to a school that encouraged us to write in every class.  As I reflect on it, the best year for my writing was my senior year.  Every day in class, my English teacher asked us to write about what we had read the night before.  She taught us to analyze and respond to the readings, rather than just summarize, which I found to be a very useful skill.  Another thing that I found useful from writing in high school was having to write a thesis paper at the end of our senior year as a requirement to graduate.  This was useful in learning how to create a detailed outline, an annotated bibliography, as well as writing a many paged paper. 

                  Of course, my high school writing was just an introduction to what I hope to learn through college English classes.  I hope to be able to write better by the time my four years at SLU is up, especially hoping that I am able to obtain a much more expansive vocabulary.  I also hope to be able to write more eloquently.  Hopefully, another thing that I hope I can learn is how to write faster.  For me, it takes a long time to process my thoughts and form them into something that is easy to read.  I would would like to be able to speed that up, if that is even possible.  Other than that, I am excited to hear feedback about my writing by others in the class as well as from the resources provided to us from SLU!