My name is Danielle Denning and I am a student in English 20803. I am from St. Louis, Missouri home of the wonderful Cardinals baseball team. In St. Louis I went to a private high school called MICDS and decided to come all the way to Texas because my dad went to school here a LONG time ago. I am now a sophomore at TCU and I plan on majoring in Business.
I signed up for this course because it was a requirement; however, by the end of the semester I hope to become more comfortable with writing in general. I want to be satisfied with what writing I produce and not feel that it is such a daunting task.
I feel like it has been so long since I have had to write on an every day basis in a classroom setting. I think this is what makes me feel so uncomfortable about writing an essay for a class. In high school I was confident about my essay's but I was never worried about sentence structure or grammar so it seemed to just flow onto my paper. Last year I took a composition class in which the main focus was not content but grammar and I felt lost. I was so focused on sentence structure and punctuation I felt my writing went down 3 levels and I didn't particularly like anything that I turned in. Writing for me now is usually texting or facebook, which seems like an entirely different language.
I have very little interest in politics because I find political conversations unpleasant. I personally believe that when talking about politics many people forget the meaning of the word opinion. your personal opinion is what you believe, who am I to tell you what you believe in is wrong? There will never be a day when every singe person in our country agrees on one thing, therefore I think we should learn to respect each other's opinions rather than tear them down. I guess what I'm saying is not that I hate the political system, but what it compels people to do and say. However, I am excited to discuss this topic in class because it seems like a controlled environment where we are more likely to accept each others differing opinions. And since I really don't know a lot about politics and the presidential candidates it will be a good place to learn more.
Through my design choices of my blog I think I am making the argument that blogs can be fun. The bright colors made me feel more upbeat when I began to write. However; this is only my first time blogging and I think later on in the semester my page will have more personality than it does now.
I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus.
1 comment:
Danny,
I totally agree with you on almost everything. It has been so long since I have written in a classroom setting as well. Hopefully things will come back easily. I also agree with the whole politics thing. I dont really know all that much about the details but it seems like when people get into discussing them, it becomes an argument over who is right and wrong. The word 'opinion' definitely is forgotten. I think you made some good points in your blog :)
-Brooke
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