Dear Students

If I Knew Then What I Know Now...
The amount of work we had to do was less than we expected. We wish we had used templates before we took this class. We recommend reviewing They Say/I Say before class begins. We wish we had more sharing and correction time on our freewriting. We began taking this class believing we didn't have much more to learn but was surprised to find there is always more to learn.

I Learned...
We have learned to write argumentative papers, how to cite our sources as well as how to use templates. We also learned how to use credible sources. We came to realize that in order to be a writer one must read and write more often. That even for professional writers it takes time and editing. In doing research we found that we need to be more open-minded and less judgemental. We learned how to balance our time between classes and other responsibilities. Our hope for next semester students is that they accomplish all their goals that they set as a writers. We hope that that students will have the opportunity to do more writing. We also hope the students enjoy going through the analysis of the short stories we read for class.

B.C., A.D., A.L.A, K.T.

Dear Next Year's Students

Plan ahead and use the class planner so you can get homework done by its due date. If it's an early class--get your rest so can pay attention. Don't plan for another late class the night before. Always ask questions and follow requirements for each writing assignment to ensure not to miss points on small stuff.

Denise

Heidi

Nikki

Sam

Tarrah

Dear Students:

This is our last class of College Comp I and we would like to share some of our knowledge and experience on a couple of topics.

During class there are a few etiquette suggestions we think will help you succeed.

Please show up on time and if you can't, please enter quietly. If you are going to miss class altogether notify your instructor as early as possible.

Be respectful of your classmates and do not judge them. This class is about reading, writing, and growing so keep your mind open and please express your opinions freely.

Your instructor also expects these things along with putting forth your best efforts, complete assignments on time and expand your knowledge and writing with each new assignment.

Along with this comes our suggestions for manging your work time. You can expect to spend about one hundred hours on work outside of class on reading and journal entries and essays. If you are working and taking more than this class make sure you pace yourself and don't cram.
If you space out your readings, research, and typing of papers you'll do great.

Good luck,

Anne
Tara
Denise
Margaret

Dear Students,

Something that you should definitely do is keep up with the readings and the journal entries. Class participation is huge and the readings play a big part. Time has a way of creeping up on you.
Time spent outside of class is another aspect that should be carefully balanced. Be sure to give yourself ample time to complete your assignments. Essays take more time than you may initially expect, your best bet is to write as much of your essay when it is fresh in your mind, as sporadic as it may be at first.

Jeremy Carey

Tanya Wanya

Seth Sharron

Hannah Faatz

Joshy Goods

Dear Students of Next Semester,

Come prepared to work hard. Plan on spending a lot of time outside of class on reading and research on topics. If taking other courses it may be hard to balance all of your assignments, especially if waiting until the last minute. Be prepared to focus on time management. We think that it has been pretty hard.
Things we think we would have done differently if we knew then what we know now: We would spend more time on the writing process. We learned how to format essays and we used that to put our essays together. If we had already known how to format the essays, we most likely wouldn't have paid much attention. We wish we know more about the journal entries. They need to be at least a page and you definitely need to read the handouts.
Sarah, Marie, Amber, Keith
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Arts and Letters Daily

Please go to the blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Arts and Letters Daily at http://www.aldaily.com/, choose an article that you find interesting or disturbing, and read at least the first page of it. Then come back here, click on Comments below, and tell us what essay you read, what you think about it, and provide a quote and a link to it so we may read it also.

Responding to Mead

For this week we read Rebecca Mead's New Yorker essay "You've Got Blog."
Please click on the Comment link below to respond to the essay. Give a two or three sentence answer to one of the journal questions.