Writing Blog Post 5

Dear English 110 Student,

First off, you all need to take a step back and take time to appreciate the fact that you have THE Leslie Chambers as a professor. Honestly, she is a great teacher who truly cares about what she does and will not give up on making you a better writer as long as you are willingly to cooperate. She is not by any means an easy teacher, but she appreciates hard work and, even if you’re not a strong writer, you can still have a successful English class. In order to be successful in this class, they’re three key points you, as a student, need to be aware of…

1. Come into English class willing to accept the fact that your course theme is sci-fi and there’s nothing you can do about it. Honestly, I hated the fact of this day one and it took me a while to start to like it. At the end of the class, I wouldn’t say I was a fan of sci-fi, but I can say I appreciate it, understand, and don’t hate it. The more you watch of sci-fi, the more you understand it and the more you can follow what is going on.

2. The second thing I would recommend for this class is to never think that your paper is perfect. Another set of eyes really helps in your revision process. I can say that at the beginning of this course, my drafts for my ARP were always good in my eyes, but then again they were the only eyes that read that paper. Long story short, it wasn’t that great and I had to start over my topic for my ARP. During my revisions process the second time, I really took Leslie’s comments seriously, and used the writing center as another reference source. Needless to say, my grade improved and I continued this on to my next paper. You will never really appreciate the comments that Leslie makes on everybody’s paper until you edit one yourself for Commonplace and it takes forever for just one paper.

3. The last piece of advice I have for this class is to BLOG, BLOG, BLOG!! Seriously, do not get behind on blogs and always comment on others. At first, I was skeptical about blogging, but as anyone in my class will tell you, I developed an addiction for blogger, so much that I still want to blog next quarter. Blogging doesn’t take up that much time, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t spend a small amount of time on them. It will only take about 15 min or so to develop a good blog with an extra 5 to 10 min in there for comments on other’s blogs because nobody wants a lame comment.

In conclusion, this class with Leslie might seem like a lot of work and unfair (especially if the people down the hall only have like 5 blogs the entire quarter, and don’t have to watch hour long sci-fi thrillers frequently), but in the end, it was quite enjoyable and I think will help me in the long run way more than I expected.

Warm Regards,

Sam Garea