Welcome to the first week of ENG/100. This week, you begin to explore how you feel about
writing, in both personal and academic settings, and you get to practice in both areas.
Beginning this week and in each week of the course, you will do some writing in a journal
(either typed or hand-written). Don’t panic! These entries won’t be graded, but they are
required so you begin to build a habit of writing and can get more comfortable with the
process.
The writing skills inventory this week gives you a chance to consider where you feel strong
about writing and where you feel you need support. And you will find links to specific tools
and resources to help you improve your writing, no matter your skill level.
Tip: As you approach this week’s reading assignments, be sure to note the specific page
ranges within each chapter for you to read. Of course, you can read the entire chapter if you
want to, but the assignments are only for specific pages.
Jump into this first week, share your thoughts, begin your writing practice, and reach out to
your faculty member if you have any questions or concerns. Happy writing!
The best way I learn is verbal and kinesthetic. So, I prefer using words or getting some hands
on learning. Reading instructions or having something verbally taught to me. With
technology these days it is harder to get access to actual hands on learning experiences.
Some strategies that I have learned that support my study of reading and writing is that
when you are reading it is important to make annotations of take notes this can help you
during the writing process. The writing process includes plan, pre-write, draft, revise/edit,
and final draft. As I begin to write I know that these steps leading to the final draft are vital to
producing a quality paper. Something that I need to improve on is my formatting. Even if I
use MLA or APA templates, I still feel like I docked points for using the wrong formatting. I
think it would be important to really understand what parts of the formatting that I am
doing wrong.
The knowledge I have about myself is that I am an auditory and visual learner. The strategies
I have learned to support my reading and writing are to pace myself in a quiet environment.
The strengths I bring to the table as I begin to write are still in the works as I learn to develop
a more reliable writing structure. Any areas I need to improve on is my ability to transmute
my thoughts into writing. I like to follow what I learned all throughout high school and
college which is either the APA or MLA format that consists of a thesis, supporting
paragraphs, conclusion, etc. An essential part of the writing and learning process for me is to
brainstorm and extensively elaborate and write out my thoughts before I iterate that into an
essay. Learning is something that requires you to be adaptive because there are endless
ways to interpret the same information and different parts of it will resonate in different
parts of the brain for everyone and I hope to advance my understanding in this class.
