Post 1: Composition I

College English

As I continue my journey through College, I find myself taking the dreaded college English class. In my case, I elected to bite the bullet and forego the placement test and just take the 0999 and 1101 together. Yes, I have a death wish.

I combined these because I have never been good at English. Of course we all can speak it, understand it (unless you travel to the UK where all bets are off), and write it. Yes we can all get by but, how well we we use the English language is the catch. 

We are all judged by how well we can converse by the words we use, how well we can write, and express our thoughts.  You see writing is a skill and over time that skill can decay and become less than what we want. 

As I was studying one night, I discovered this gem "Given the importance of writing as a communication skill, I urge you to consider this class as a gift and make the most of it. But writing is hard, and writing in college may resemble playing a familiar game by completely new rules (that often are unstated)."*  This struck as this is exactly where I am.  

The most important thing I want to to learn is to write better.  If nothing more than to write a better email, but to be able to write a report, of even a blog and not sound as if I just came down some county back road.  

I have a great deal of trepidation about this class but I voue to you, my reader, I will give it my best. I heard some very wise words when I was younger and I have passed them on to my kids and now, even my grandson as he was departing for boot camp. I told him " Do your best and give god the rest." 

I will do my best.

Until We Talk Again.

*From "Writing Spaces, V1, Page 3