Friday, March 12, 2010

(XXXII) The End

Dear English 110.01 Newbs,

Welcome to your first experience in a college level writing course. Consider yourselves special for being in this specific class, because there is none other than it (trust me, you can survey your friends taking other English 110 classes). The next quarter of your academic career is going to revolve around watching science-fictions, then writing about them. You will admire some, hate others, perhaps become a fan of one; but suspending judgment is of the essence, if you intend to carry on the lessons from this class. You will learn how to spot multiple real world connections in sci-fi shows. Eventually, you will find yourself easily making these connections on your own. You will communicate your observations with the rest of the class via routine blogging/commenting. In regards to those assignments, it will be in the best of your interests to work them promptly; especially commenting. You don't want to find yourself spending every spare minute of your day browsing through blogs in order to say something. I also advise you to make relevant comments; this could bring you quite a few extra credit points. Of course, you will learn the techniques on how to make your writing style more timely, compelling, and relevant. Just keep in mind that your goal is write material capable of being published by the end of this course. I could babble more gibberish about this class, but I would rather enumerate them for you-creates more emphasize. So here are points to remember:

1) Keep an open mind - You're not going to like everything you watch in this class, but all the shows have fans. There's a reason for that.

2) Keep ahead of the game - Comments, blogging, your giant research paper which you're going to work on over, and over, and over, and over...

3) Give some spunk to your comments (both written & verbal) - comments like..."that was great!! :)" bear very little weight in this class

4) Start your day with a healthy break-fast - It will brighten your day

5) Take advantage of the outdoors - You will find inspiration and relief from mother nature (keep in mind this year's winter storm and what my class had to endure...the flow of negativity was common at times)

6) Drink lots of Starbucks coffee - You just might earn a GOLD member's card like Hillary

7) Convince one of your friends (not in the class) to blog routinely with you - You will learn so many fun facts about them, and the random happenings of their day. You might also learn some interesting blogging strategies from their writing style.

8) Try not to accidentally click publish instead of save as draft, when typing your blog.

Those are my words of advice. If you have a hefty workload this quarter, this class will be tedious. But no matter what you're case is, I am certain you will emerge from this course a better writer.

Sincerely,

Agent McSneaky

4 comments:

  1. Frank, I commented on all your Blogs with "that was great :-)" so I think you shouldn't slam it, respect it.

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  2. This was a really cute letter!. I love the part " start your day with a healthy breakfast." It was really random but seriously the class is two hours long, you need something to hold you over, and keep you awake.

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  3. Great advice, i like the structure you used listing the different things.

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  4. point number 2 cant be stressed enough

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