Incoming Students

After taking this section of the Writing 1122, I think I would recommend this course to incoming students with a few words of advice. First, keep up on the blogs. At the beginning of the year it doesn't seem like a big deal, so you are able to slack a little. But, once you get to the end of the quarter, and you have about 2 million pages due in every class, it gets a little burdensome. So my first piece of advice would be to try and get at least one done a week, and two when you can. Next, I would recommend spending plenty of time on your first drafts, and make it the best you can. That way, after the revision process, you have the best work, not just OK work. It would make it much easier to revise work that you have already put a lot of effort into, rather than something that you just throw together last minute. Finally, I would recommend keeping all the writing exercises together, along with every piece of writing other than that. It makes it so much easier to have them all together at the end of the term, rather than going back and trying to find them. If they can keep them neat and tidy, they will simply have to transfer them to their portfolio.