Monday, September 1, 2008
Assignment 0: First Blog Entry
To be completed before class, Wednesday, September 3
Length: at least 450 words
• Here you are at our class blog. If it doesn’t want to let you post to the blog, email me and remind me to add you as a contributor!
• Make your first blog entry. In that entry, please spend at least 450 words answering the following questions:
• What are you studying, and why do you like it?
• Where are you from, and what’s it like there?
• Aside from writing, what are your interests and hobbies?
• Have you had good or bad experiences getting feedback on your work? What were they?
• Who are your influences? Name some writers, living or dead, whose work you admire (and try to articulate what you admire about them). A writer you detest can also be an influence—if you can articulate how you want to write differently from him.
• What’s good about good writing?
• What do you hope to learn in this class? (Don’t be lame and say, “I want to learn to write better.” Be more specific than that.)
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When I first came to St. Lawrence I had no idea which subject I wanted to major in. After taking many different courses I decided an English major would suit me best. Reading literature is what really drew me into the major; I love reading great stories, novels, poetry, etc. It really helps having a course outlined to go through different periods and cultures of literature, forcing me to read books I would have never thought of before.
Originally I am from different areas in New York, but around the time I was 12 I moved to Wilton, Connecticut. I basically live in the middle of the woods in a very hilly area. The hills cover large rocky areas that in colonial days were dug out for farming. The rocks were then cracked into smaller rocks and then used to build stonewalls that surround most everyone’s property in the town and neighboring towns.
From the time I was 8 years old I played ice hockey, starting in training sessions and slowly progressing to Connecticut girl teams. By high school I began playing for a high school in a nearby city, since my school didn’t offer a girls team, and the team played all through out the tri-state area. I loved hockey and tried to play a bit here at SLU for a girls club team, but it was difficult to balance my school and the late hours of our ice time.
Typically I am very open to criticism on my work, I can be stubborn at times but for the most part appreciate it if someone has taken the time and effort to look at my work. Most of the time I have my friends look over my work, but in classes where we do peer editing I often found that the critiques were ideas I would have never of thought of, or just merely skimmed over. I cant recall some exact feedbacks or experiences…sorry.
A book I am reading at the moment for class and have not quite finished is an autobiography by Barack Obama. This came as a shock to me the most, because I consider myself a republican. This book; however, is about his life more before his political career and I have to be honest, he is just so truthful. I love that he writes about his struggle with identity so openly and freely.
If it can keep me captivated and not bored than chances are I will like it. What really catches my eye is when there is a poetry about the writing. The writing can be meant for a purpose or no purpose at all, I want to see small detailed connections in the writing tat shows the author really thought about what he/she is saying and also about what good writing is to him/herself while writing.
In my last Literature class we dove into what good writing was and how different authors of different periods in English Literature thought good writing was. I saw what each one had to say and how different time periods effected their opinions of good writing. I want to try and figure it out for myself, I have the background of those authors, now maybe I can try and experiment with what good writing means to me.
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