Dear prospective ENG105 student,

Congratulations on working to get your degree in whatever field of study you so have chosen.  In taking this College Writing course, the best advice I can give is prepare to work.  If you are an inexperienced writer this course is for you, but be preapred to work hard because in my experience this was a difficult class.  I was never a good writer nor do I think I ever will be, but this class has helped me become familiar with academic styles of writing that will help me in college courses later on down the very long, long road. 

If you have never blogged before, get ready to.  I never understanded the fascination with blogging and honestly it is something I told myself I would never due, but in order to pass this class I guess I had to.  At least we didn't have to twitter.

Become familiar with writing papers in MLA format.  Before I enrolled in this course, I had no idea what MLA even was, but now I find myself writing all of my papers for college in this format.  Also be prepared on doing a lot of research for several essays in which you will have to write because as I have learned, if you don't know what your talking about, you can't write a good paper. 

Another topic which will be discussed is literary analysis.  This is extremely tough and I have no business giving anyone advice being that I still have no confidence in myself in this subject.  The only advice I can give is work hard on understanding what the author of the material was really trying to say so you can succeed where I have not.

All in all, this is a difficult, yet satisfying course that will leave you with substantial knowledge to help you in your college career.  Good luck.

Sincerely,

Daniel Volpi