Letter of Introduction

Most of my high school experience with reading and writing was in depth at least for the last two years of high school. We worked on lots of contemporary poems and short stories, as far as writing we went we worked on some different types of writing, and what it means to have strong diction and syntax, and how to present this to a reader. My favorite type of writing we did in high school was when we were assigned to write a satirical paper. For some reason just the idea and reading of satirical work sticks in my head more then anything. I ended up writing a satirical paper on immigration and how to get rid of the illegal immigrants. The most famous work we analyzed as far as satirical works went was Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal". Poems defiantly are not my stronghold and I dislike most of them, not saying they don't have a lot of meaning behind them but as far as poems go I would rather read lyrics to song. Poems have always been hard for me to analyze. However there are poems I still like such as Robert Frost poems, "Mending Wall" is a good one. My favorite line being "Good fences make good neighbors". Such a simple put line with lots of meaning.

In college I haven't really gone that in depth as far as writing goes. I am a Mechanical Engineering Major and most of what we write are lab reports so more visual representations graphs and charts are more my strong hold. However English 103 was still one of my favorite classes here at Clemson so far. I had Chase Hart, also one of the best English professors. English 103 taught me really how to write and persuade people, and at first I really didn't like it but I caught on to it and ended up really enjoying persuasive writing. I even persuaded Chase for an A what more do you want. We also did lots of blogging in the lab we had for 103. Most of the works we read in 103 were in the book and were mainly persuasive essays not major works so I wouldn't be able to name any. But other than 103 I have not taken any other English classes on a College level. I am also taking English 314 which is technical writing.

As far as going beyond the classroom and writing I haven't really ever experimented with it, I was always involved in school and soccer, I'm not saying I never had time just never interested me. I had a website I made back in highschool in html format but I haven't worked with html for a couple of years now. I mainly stick to emailing and facebook chat to keep in touch with people. I feel like this writing is defiantly non-fiction I feel what I write at least is real, to some people they can use it to manipulate the truth a bit. I am taking this class to finish my general education requirements, I should have taken it earlier but I wasn't sure what I still needed.

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