Hello! My high school experience with English classes and writing were positive for the most part.  I enjoy reading and writing so I didn't mind when papers were assigned. I really did not enjoy reading Frankenstein, Great Expectations or The Odyssey.  Some of my favorites, however, were Romeo and Juliet, The Color Purple and To Kill a Mockingbird. We learned a lot about the different kinds of papers you can write and how to format them my sophomore year. I did not like that course because my writing felt very structured and black and white which is not my style.  The english class I took junior year was focused on synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argumentative essays which was pretty dry. I was very interested in my journalism class during my senior year of high school. I learned about all different media forms and persuasive techniques. I wish I learned more about poetry in high school though.  I also would have like to read more of the classics.
I would expect this class to have both reading and writing. I am excited to read more books and delve deeper into them by analyzing and writing about different topics. When we read books in high school, I liked when we would have discussions about what certain symbols meant because it was intriguing to hear everyone's different opinions. I hope this class will do something similar. One thing I enjoyed about high school writing was that when I would turn in a paper I had the opportunity to revise it once I got it back using the teachers annotations. I am a little worried about not having that in college. However, I plan to use University Writing Services. I look forward to the rest of this year with all of you! -Meghan Loftus