High School Writing Experience

I'm much fonder of subjects such as math and science than English so I never really enjoyed writing in high school much. This was largely because I had to take classes such as creative writing and I am much more comfortable writing with a specific purpose in mind than trying to pull something out of thin air. I also felt the skills necessary for creative writing compared to any other type of writing weren't useful enough to me personally for it to be worth the trouble. My biggest concern for this class and any future English classes I have to take is that they will be oriented toward that kind of writing. However, that doesn't mean that I hate or can't do any sort of writing in general. I debated for a while in high school and I had a good time and was fairly good at writing speeches because I was able to focus on more familiar skills like critical thinking and then just work on transferring them into writing and later verbal communication. Improving my ability to properly structure an argument and anticipate its possible counters was a very useful skill to learn since most of the writing I do in the future will likely be to make some sort of point directly rather than through a form of English I don't particularly enjoy or excel at such as storytelling. Based on the title of the class including the word rhetoric I expect much of what we do will be focused on argumentation and debate so I believe this class will be fairly beneficial because it will give me the kinds of writing skills that are actually useful across all majors such as learning to write concisely, yet also convincingly and fluently.