Hi everyone, my name is Anna Plotnick, my preferred pronouns are she/her/hers and my intended major is political science.

After reading the syllabus, one thing that I am unsure about is adjusting to the lack of instruction with prompts for the essays this semester. I think that it will be a big change to have to create my own ideas and purpose to my writing rather than following what is given, but I am willing and eager to try. One thing that I am very excited for is to be able to do my own research which contradicts my last point. I believe that it is purposeful for my skills in writing and any career path I want that I am sufficient in skills to do my own work and research and I am excited to grow those skills.

In my opinion, qualities of good writing would be to have a meaningful message or purpose to the writing. This means that the writing develops as the story continues and goes along. In order for one to be a good writer, I think that it is important to practice, to take critiques and write using methods of syntax, fluency, and other literary devices to engage the reader. It is important to write well because it grows the writers skills in persuasion and communication, along with allowing the writer to connect to a topic that is important to themselves and others in a important form of expression.

I feel for myself that the easiest part of writing is to revise and edit. When I write, I usually write down all my thoughts for the prompt or topic because it is easier to narrow down the writing than to create something new with little basis. I do well when writing about something I am passionate about or that I can connect to. Something that I don’t do well when writing is keep my opinion out of all of my text. Even when a paper is supposed to be completely unbiased or neutral, I can still find a way to share my perspective. So I need to work on, writing from other perspectives to be able to grow my skills as a good writer.

In my intended major, I know that I will be doing a lot of global and domestic communication work. So I will be expected to write detailed papers overall about politics, but in my opinions of past, current and future policy works. I will be writing possible resolutions and proposals related to politics. Being an effective writer in this field is very important because I need to be able to demonstrate to people my opinion even if they don’t agree with the idea, and I need my writing to be effective with my own research and ideas.

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