English 100 Evaluation

          As far back as I can remember I have not liked to read, until about nine years ago when I found a book series that I could not put down. Since then, I have discovered that I like to read about vampires, witches and other supernatural things, fiction or not. Anne Rice witch series was my first love of books and since then has grown to Patricia Briggs, Richelle Mead, and Stephanie Meyers among others.

          When I first started English 100, I was very nervous because I thought I was a horrible writer; however, I have started to enjoy writing as well as reading. I have found that writing can be very therapeutic in the very stressful life that I have. I have loved this class and looked forward to coming to every class. I do not remember ever really enjoying taking an English class until now.

          The blog has been very helpful in this class, because we can get answers more quickly than if we handed them in on paper. Not to mention it is easier to read than someone's handwriting. In addition, you can see the opinions of other people through their blogging entries. It is nice to see the opinions of others and the way that they write compared to your own.

          I cannot think of anything that I would change in the class other than maybe having everyone keep a daily class journal of what they learned that day. However, even that is not a necessity. I have enjoyed English 100 this semester and believe it to be an asset to anyone that is beginning to write.

Task Four Self Evaluation

•What is the thesis for your paper?

" People have lost the joy that comes from using their imagination when reading and writing, and instead rely on the imagination of others."

•List the main points you make in your paper.

My main points in this paper are that people do not use their imagination as much as they used to. People watch too much television and play on the internet too often, instead of reading or writing stories, whether they are their own real life stories or fiction.

•What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?

The most helpful advice I got was on my Works Cited page. I had something wrong on it.

•What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?

That I needed to move a couple lines from my second paragraph, to my first paragraph and use it as my introduction.

•How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?

When I wrote this paper I sat down at the computer and wrote out my experience from kindergarten all the way to college. Later I found all the quotes that I wanted. I then added the quotes in to the essay. I think in total I sat and changed my essay about three times.

•What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?

I think if I had to rewrite this paper I would have found the quotes first and then wrote my experiences around them.

•What are most pleased with about this paper?

To be honest, I am not really all that pleased with this paper. I feel like I had a hard time with it. If I have to choose one thing it would probably be that I had more quotes then I did with Task 3.

Literacy Autobiography

Growing up I don't remember ever being challenged to read or write much of anything. In school I did not do well but was passed regardless of my grades. I don't think I read any of my textbooks and didn't really care. No one was pushing me to succeed so I didn't. One year I wrote a poem that was published and I was very proud of that poem. After having children I knew I didn't want them to follow in my footsteps so I read to them every chance I had. They still do not understand the importance of reading, but I still try to get them to read. Now that I am in college my outlook has changed greatly, and I know that in order to succeed I need to read the textbooks along with anything else I can get hold of. I haven't been in college that long and I don't think my reading expectations are that bad; I am assured it will get worse as I go though. During English 100 I have learned a lot about reading and especially writing essays. I never thought I could write an essay anywhere near as well as I have this semester. I have learned to love writing and I am even thinking of starting a journal sometime soon. I have found writing to be very therapeutic with all the stresses in my life at this point. I do plan on writing more even though English is not my major and cannot wait to see what next semester brings.

Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass

In "How I learned to Read and Write" by Frederick Douglass, he speaks about what it was like to be a slave in the 1800's that was not allowed to learn to read and write. As far as white people were concerned, he was only there to work and nothing more. However, his masters wife had started to teach him when he first came to live with them until the master told his wife not to teach him because it would ruin him as a slave. After that he did everything he could to learn. Learning to read and write was the most important thing to him. I have never been one to read and write unless I had to. People have always told me since I was young that I needed to read more, but I have always had a hard time reading anything unless it catches my interest and keeps it. I believe this has a lot to do with the television and internet because anything you can read in a book can usually be found in a movie or some other form on the internet. I don't remember when I first started to read and write but I do remember my mother could not help much do to her learning disability and the fact she didn't read very well herself. Once I got into school, I do know that I struggled with it enough that they held me back in kindergarten. They said it was because of my age but I think if I had done better I would not have been held back. Douglass struggled because he didn't have many people to help him where I had teachers that helped me. It probably took him longer to learn to read than it did for me because he had chores daily and he had to hide that he was learning.

Reflection on Reading and Writing

Before this course, I had not written anything more than an email or text in probably 15 years. I have been out of school much longer than most of the other students in my class. When I was in high school I was not a great student but, I used to love writing. I usually wrote poems that didn't amount to much more than me putting my feeling on paper, because I was too shy to say them out loud. In my seventh or eighth grade Spanish class we had a teacher that inspired us, so another girl and I wrote a poem about him that was published in a High School writer newspaper. As I got older and was out of school, life pretty much took over and I lost any free time to sit and read or write. Being in this class has showed me how much I used to enjoy writing and how therapeutic it can be. I have really enjoyed writing the essays we have had to write much more than I thought I would before the class started. I am starting to see why it is so important to be a good reader and writer. Sometimes the only way to get your point across to other people is to write it down. I have really enjoyed this class and it has been a great way for me to refresh my writing skills. I hope that English 104 is just as great and that I find some time to write my own things and not just papers for school.

Self Analysis for Task 3

* What is the thesis for your paper?
"I have seen how the school system can fail the students by passing the children even if they do not understand the things they are taught. Not only is the school system to blame, but also the state laws."

* List the main points you make in your paper.
In Missouri there is a state law where, at the age of 17 children are considered adults allowing them to choose to move out of their parent’s house and drop out of school.

If a failing student who put forth no effort should not be allowed to attend summer school then receive a guaranteed pass onto the next grade.

The problem with this is that parents do not want to see their children fail in school, so they try to make sure their children are passed regardless of the fact that it will hurt the children more in their future.

Most 16 year olds are too immature, caring more about running with their friends rather than building a life for themselves.

teens are too immature to graduate and if the student is not doing well because they just are not applying themselves, they should be doomed to repeat that year again.

* What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?
Forgot to add the MLA page numbers after the quotes.

* What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?
To put more of my experiences in the paper.

* How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them?
I did an outline on paper, two rough drafts and a final copy on the computer.

* What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?
Not sure if I did the quotes correctly. Think I should have added more of them to my paper.

* What are most pleased with about this paper?
I think I got a lot of my frustrations out talking about it in my essay.

Analysis to one aspect of Kozol's "Savage Inequalities."

In Kozol's "Savage Inequalities" one of the things that really upset me was the teachers that just don't care. It is hard enough to get children to care about their education, and when they grow up in an area where there is a lot of poverty and crime, they should really focus on giving those kids the best education possible to keep their hope up. While Kozol spoke to Mrs. Hawkins, a teacher in Saint Louis, about the other teachers in that school, she said "one of these teacher usually comes in around nine-thirty. You ask her how she can expect the kids to care about their education if the teacher doesn't even come until nine-thirty. She answers you, 'it makes no difference. Kids like these aren't going anywhere.'" To me that person should not be a teacher. Teachers are supposed to be role models that do everything they can to make sure children succeed. If my daughter had even one teacher that cared the way Mrs. Hawkins did, maybe she would still be in school. Fortunately, my other daughter has found many teachers that care and is doing well in school. In my opinion, schools need to get rid of the teachers that are just there for money and keep the ones who really love to teach.

Reflection of Task 3

Reflection of Task 3

I am having a hard time trying to decide what to write my essay on. In Sherry's , "In Praise of the F Word", she talks about how children should be held back if they don't pass. I agree, if a child doesn't try to do well in school, and they fail, that they should not pass. Our school system has become more into sports than the education the kids are getting. In turn I think the kids pick up on this, and they don't care about their education. My daughter failed everything for 4 years in a row, and the only thing they did was make her go to summer school, and then she would pass. After a couple years of that, she got used to not putting any effort in because she knew she would go to summer school and pass anyway. In Botstein's "Let Teenagers Try Adulthood", It is the same type of thing. I think if children don't care about their grades, or try at all they should be forced to move out and get a job. They need to pay their own bills, and see what it is really like in the "real world." I have a teenager that has dropped out of school, and doesn't care about anything but her friends. I think children need a major reality check, either get a good education and a good job, or forget the education and work crappy jobs where you barely make enough for your bills every month. As you can tell, I am a little bitter on the subject.

Do you ever reflect upon your experiences to high school and college?

Every now and then, I think about high school and the fact that I never tried very hard. I did just enough to get through each year, and that was enough as far as I was concerned. I didn't have very many friends so I had no one to study with. I believe children that have study partners or friends to help them they do better in school because they actually care. Now that I am in college, I think if I had studied more, tried harder, or cared about it at all I wouldn't have such a hard time with school now. I find it hard to study for tests because I never learned how to studied in high school. It has been a very long time since I got my GED and I haven't studied much of anything since then. I have tried to help my children with their homework and like my mother, sometimes I feel helpless when I look at what they are doing in school. Things have advanced since I was where they are now. They are learning things in fourth grade that I didn't learn till sixth grade, so by the time they get to high school they are doing things I never did. Every time I have a test in college, I panic a little because I failed almost every test in high school and I want so much to succeed in college and get really good grades. I think sometimes a person just needs to grow up and live life a little before they realize how very important an education is. Unfortunately for some, including me, it takes a little longer than it should.

Let Teenagers Try Adulthood

In Leon Botstein's essay, "Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood" he is writing to the adults who have children or teenagers. He talks about how the classes need to be restructured in order for kids to graduate earlier, and then get jobs or go into the military. I teenagers do either of these things then they should go to some sort of technical school or job shadow someone in a field that interests them. Botstein also states that children are growing up faster and developing faster so he believes they would be able to handle graduating two years earlier. I don't believe that. I think teens are not as grown up as they think they are. I have seen a few over the years that could have graduated early and done just fine, but the majority are too immature. I think that Botstein stated his case well, but I myself do not agree with it. I do think teens should be allowed to get some sort of job earlier than 16 in order to get a feeling of responsibility, but they still need to be in school. I could just be one of the people that they talk about in the book that hates teenagers though. I have two teenage daughters that almost drive me nuts some days, and I wish they were more responsible than they are. I do see where the essay is coming from and in some aspects I think for some people it would be a good thing. However, there are other countries that are more advanced than us in their education and I think we need to catch up to them. I am on the fence about the essay, not sure which way to turn.

Where College Fails Us

Questions for Reflection and Writing

So far in college it has been pretty easy, but I just started. I have not had many problems other than trying to balance school, work, and having a family. Sometimes it is a little harder than I thought it would be. The kids are always complaining that they don't see me very much, which is hard for me to hear. I am always trying to find new ways to spend time with them while I study, but unfortunately they don't like to help me study. Sometimes the studying has to wait till later at night after they go to bed.
I decided to go to college to better myself and my education. I want to be an RN and possibly a Nurse Practitioner when I am finished with school. I am tired of working two jobs just to pay the bills and never being able to take my kids on vacation. I hear people talking about where they went for their vacation and I have never been able to take my kids anywhere. I want my children to be able to go to school and tell their friends what they did that summer. I also don't want to have to stress about the bills every month. I hate having to tell my kids no to going skating or bowling because we can't afford it.
I definitely believe college is worth it, including the cost and time. In the end, I think I will be very happy with my decision. I never imagined that I would be able to go to an actual college, especially at my age. But now that I have made the decision and started I couldn't be happier. The cost might change my mind after I am finished but hopefully I will be able to find a job that pays well enough that I won't have to worry to much.

Self Evaluation for Task Two

Self Evaluation for Task-Two

* What is the thesis for your paper?
My Thesis is: It seemed not only was the educational system not helping her, but neither was her father.

* List the main points you make in your paper.
1. She had a learning disability.
2. Her father used to drag her out of school to babysit her sister and two of her brothers.
3. She failed every year and was still passed to the next grade.
4. She dropped out in the 8th grade.
5. She got married at 17.
6. She had three children.
7. Never went back to school or got her GED although she did try once.

* What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?
I forgot to indent my paragraphs.

* What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?
I needed to give more information about myself in the conclusion.

* How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write
them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?
I wrote three drafts to my paper, first I made a list of questions, then I wrote my rough draft, followed by my final copy.

* What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?
I would have asked my mother all the questions at once. I had to call her twice to get all the answers. If I had gotten all my questions answered at first, it wouldn't take as long to write.

* What are most pleased with about this paper?
I love that I didn't have too much to change after my rough draft.

Becoming Educated

My early expectations of college where that I was going to have to study every free second I had, and that it would all be very, very hard. Turns out that it isn't all that hard yet, but I am sure it is only going to get harder as I keep going considering this is my first semester. I want to receive good grades and do really well. I never cared much about school in High School and didn't study very often, so college seems a little harder to me than I am sure it does to some other people who did well in High School. Not to mention I am older than most of my classmates, and I not only have to juggle school, but also a job and three children. I am dedicated to doing my best at Missouri Western. I want to be a nurse when I graduate, and to do that I must have really good grades just to get into the nursing program. I also want to show my children that college isn't easy and if you want to succeed then you need to do well in all grades, not just college. I think Jordan and I have the same idea to study a lot and be the best we can be. I am not putting as much pressure on myself as Jordan did on herself, but times are different now and it is easier for girls in school now than it was back in 1959.

My interview process.

In my interview with my mother, we talked about her life while she was growing up. A lot of the info I already knew from past stories I have heard, but some of the info I had not remembered correctly. My mother has a very interesting past a lot of which would have been a lot different if she had gotten an education. I believe I have enough information for all my body paragraphs, although I did find out all my mom ever wanted was to be a mother and wife. Education wasn't that important to her back then, but I believe if her teachers had cared more and given her more help she would have had a chance to succeed in school.
I conducted the interview at my mothers' home in Kansas over the weekend. I believe I have enough info, although if I need anything else my mother will answer any questions over the phone. The only concern I have at this point is that my paper will not be much information about her education. I hope to overcome this by writing it around the fact that she never got an education. I learned that my grandfather was a large factor in her not staying in school. He was an alcoholic and would drag her out of school to watch her handicapped sister and two brothers that were nearly deaf. My grandmother worked a lot and couldn't do anything to help her. I believe I will be able to write a fairly good interview paper based on the interview I conducted.

Task Two Questions for 9/29/10

Task Two Questions

For my interview, I have chosen my mother as my person. She has been through a lot in her life and education was not one of her priorities. Some of the questions I am going to ask her will be, "Why did you drop out of school in the eighth grade? What kind of learning disability do you have? Why didn't you ever go back or get your GED? What did you do after you dropped out?" and "What was school like back then?" I want to get a feel for what her school was like, any teachers she liked or disliked, and if she just wanted to get a job to help my grandmother out. I would like to know if any of her brothers or sisters ever dropped out or went to college. She has mentioned that she has a learning disability, but never said what kind. I want to know if anyone tried to help her in school or just ignored her. My mother taught herself to read for the most part and became an avid reader for a long time. I don't remember her reading to me or my siblings, but that could just be because I was young . I do remember that she could never help with homework because she never understood it, which was very frustrating to her. She wanted to help her children but always passed the homework help off to my dad. I don't know if my grandfathers alcoholism problem was a contributing factor in her quitting or not but I can guarantee he didn't care when she did drop out. My mother is a very smart person, just not educated. She has lived life the hard way, without an education, and this is something she never wanted for her children.

A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

The cuentos are mainly women's stories to warn them against men and how terrible they can be. I think the older women have seen the way men treat women, kind of like they are just there for sex. The women tell these stories because they don't want the younger women to get hurt by men. Back in those days, the younger female children were allowed to listen to the stories because they married younger.
I believe if the stories had been told by men, they would have been about the old nagging women. They would tell the boys or younger men to be careful who they marry so they wouldn't end up with the ones that complained and yelled all the time. I think the stories would be told by the older men that no longer worked, and were stuck listening to the older women tell their stories.
I don't remember any stories that were told by family members in my family. But I think that if I had heard any it would have been about the same as the ones the Cofer women told. They would be about how you shouldn't give yourself to any man unless you are married to them, because if you do they won't stick around most times. My family was not the kind of family to sit around telling stories though. We only got together with family around the holidays, and then it wasn't much about stories. Mostly they just caught up on everyone's busy lives.

Homework for Sept. 24th

I grew up in the tiny little town of Blue Rapids, KS where if your parents didn't have money or a business, then you were considered a nobody. I didn't have many friends, and most of the ones I thought were my friends, I later found out weren't. I couldn't find a job around there because I wasn't one of the popular kids. My mother made most of my clothes, so I got made fun of most days, but I really tried not to care. I always told myself it didn't matter what everyone thought, but inside, it hurt that those people were mean to me. As I got older though, I learned what real friends were, and I learned that I really didn't care what people thought of me. I hated that town and couldn't wait to get away from it.
When I turned 17 I got pregnant with my first child, and although it was scary, it was also one of my happiest times. I dropped out of school my senior year and got my GED the month after my daughter was born. When she was one, we moved to Missouri and I will never go back to that town other than to visit my parents. That town taught me that your real friends stick with you no matter what you are going through, or how much money you have, or what kinds of clothes you wear. I try to explain that to my children, and sometimes I think it gets through to them. But, they are teenagers and think they know it all. Blue Rapids taught me to be myself regardless of what anyone thinks, and the best friends will stay by your side no matter what.

Task Two Homework for Sept. 22

For Task Two I am going to interview my mother because she dropped out in the 8th grade and never went back to school. I believe she tried to get her GED at one point but never finished it. She also has a learning disability, although I am not sure exactly what it is.
I am interested in finding out what school was like back then and why she dropped out. I know she kept getting passed through classes even though she failed. I would like to ask her what her learning disability is and why she dropped out. I want to know if she ever wanted to go back to school and if she regrets dropping out in the first place.
As far as problems with writing this, I would say trying to figure out how to word the questions to get the appropriate response is going to be the hardest. I believe I will learn a lot about what my mother went through growing up and trying to get an education in a time when people didn't really acknowledge learning disabilities.
I also thought about interviewing a friend of mine that just graduated here at Missouri Western at the age of 40 with a Bachelors in Social Work. She is a single mom that has been through a lot including moving at least three times while going to school. I am also going to graduate around my 40th birthday and I believe it might help me understand what to expect while going to school myself.

Self Evaluation

Self-Evaluation

What is the thesis for your paper?
The Thesis for my paper was "My grandmother went through a lot of hardship's in her life, from and abusive husband to the loss of her son and later both her legs, but was always kind and generous to everyone she met. She is my inspiration and the reason I am who I am.

List the main points you make in your paper.
In my paper I talk about my grandfather who was an alcoholic and very abusive. I also talk about her son, my Uncle Michael who was murdered and how that was the only time I ever saw her break down. Later I talk about the loss of her legs and how that didn't change the person she was.


What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?
We never got to my paper in the peer evaluations.


What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?
My professor gave me the best advice about my thesis. I needed to add more detail about the hardships my grandmother went through.

How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?
For my paper I made a list of the main details then sat down and wrote the story on paper before finally typing out my rough draft. Then I had a friend read over it and make suggestions before writing another copy. After I received back the edited copy from my professor, I wrote my final draft.

What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?
I would have gotten more help on the thesis. I am still not too sure about writing the thesis and what all to put in it.


What are most pleased with about this paper?
I love the way the story turned out. I believe I told my grandmothers story very well with all the things she went through. There were more, but then the story would have been six pages.

On Becoming a Chicano

On Becoming a Chicano was a hard read for me. I grew up in a small town where the only label was "hick" or "redneck". Most of the people that grew up there stayed there. Since I moved to St. Joseph I have seen and heard a lot of labels. Some not nice at all. The one thing that gets me are the people that have those not nice labels and they do nothing to change their lives or the lives of their children. I have also seen lots of people that work very hard to stay away from all labels.
Rodriguez struggled his entire life, not knowing who he was. He was who they made him into. He lost his sense of security when his parents stopped speaking English around him. I don't know that he ever got that security back his entire life. I feel he struggles with who he used to be with his Chicano past and who he has struggled to be as an American.

How It Feels To Be Colored Me.

I guess considering I am a mother of three I have lots of labels. I am a mother, dictator, nurse, therapist, the list could go on forever. It helps me a lot because the kids always have problems with each other or ouchies that need kissed and mended. I have to make sure to live my life the way I would want them to live. I don't want them to grow up insecure or scared of new things. Hurston's idea is not to be afraid of who you are or try to hide it. Be yourself! That is probably one of the best ideas. It is one I try to explain to my teenage daughters. It seems they are totally different girls every other day. That is why I have so many labels. No one could fit me just right at every moment of life.

Task One Idea

Task One Idea

For Task One, I have decided to write about my grandmother. After reading "Rite of Passage", it brought up some old memories. I believe my grandmother will be a wonderful person to write about that can bring inspiration to others. She lost both of her legs after a surgery and went through a lot of other things that made her the strongest woman I have ever known. I believe my biggest challenges are going to be getting all of the facts. I plan to ask my mother for most of the facts and if there are things she can't remember I will ask my aunt who still lives in West Virginia where my grandmother lived.

My Grandmother

My Grandmother

My grandmother, Cenia Marie Hess has always been  a very important person to me. She has lived in West Virginia for as long as I can remember. In the same house my mother and her brothers and sisters grew up in.  She is probably the strongest woman I have ever known in my life. Most of her life she was beaten and verbally abused by my grandfather who was an alcoholic. When I was 12, her middle son, my Uncle Mike, was shot and killed. That was the only time I ever saw her break down and cry. About 10 years later she had some kidney problems, and had to have one of them removed. In the process she got Gangrene and lost both of her legs. This would be hard for anyone, but even more for my grandmother who still had an outhouse and no indoor plumbing. She had to stay in the hospital while her entire house was remodeled to be safe and easy for her to get around in it. While she was in the hospital, her husband, my grandfather brought his cheating girlfriend of twenty years in to tell her he was leaving her. Now, not only did she have to go home with no legs, but also with no husband. She didn't like anyone to help her once she got home and settled. She did all the housework and cooking herself, and I remember every summer we would go visit when we were younger, she always made the best homemade biscuits and homemade vegetable soup. Anything we wanted, we got if she had it, even if mom said no. She was the most loving and caring woman and even though she passed away this past year she will always be in my thoughts and my heart.ess has always been an

My Letter of Introduction

My Letter of Introduction

My name is Cristina Ascheman and I am a 35 year old mother of 3 children. I was born in Bluefield, WV and soon after moved to Blue Rapids, KS where I was raised. Blue Rapids is a very small town that shares the high school with the next town.  When I was 20 I moved to Missouri right before having my second child. I was married for three years before getting a divorce. After that I decided to go to school and graduated from Vatterott with an Associate's Degree in Computer Programming and Network Management in 2000. It took me 9 years before I found a programming job here in Saint Joseph, MO.  Since then, I have discovered that I dislike programming. Something about sitting down all day just isn't for me. That is probably why I have also worked as a server at Red Lobster for 8 years. 

I have grown to enjoy reading although I used to despise it. My favorite books are the Twilight Series and recently I have really enjoyed the Vampire Academy novels by Richelle Mead. I am in the middle of the fourth book and it is taking me a while to read, because it is moving more slowly than the other books. Another series I love are the House of Night Novels by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. There has always been something about  the supernatural that intrigues me. 

I have never been a very good writer. In high school I had a very fun Spanish teacher. He always made class fun and encourage me to take two years of it. My second year there, another girl and I wrote a poem that was sent in and published in a writers newspaper. That is the only thing I have ever had published. Since then the only thing I have written are emails to friends and family, or notes to schools when my kids are sick. I would love to get better at writing, but have never really tried. I believe I will need writing in the future because I am wanting to be a nurse. I will need to make sure that things written down in reports are accurate in order to treat people correctly. I look forward to learning more about how to write in this class.