How can I make English 1010 easier?

How can I make English 1010 an easier class to handle since I am not the best at writing?

 

 

 

Just follow these three easy steps:

1) Be a worm.

2) Be like Gaga.

3) Give in to peer pressure.

 

 

Be a worm? Yes. Be a bookworm. 

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read!” —William Faulkner

You know that you learned to talk by listening. It should not surprise you that you learn most about writing by reading.

 

 

Be like Gaga? Yes. Love the process.

“I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.” —Lady Gaga

Didn't see that one coming, did you? As Lady Gaga knows, writing is a process.

 

Follow the process. Don't take short-cuts. And remember that the process takes time, which is why your professor gives you 2 - 4 weeks to complete the process and not twenty-four hours.

 

 

 

Give in to peer pressure? Yes. Use peer review comments to better your paper.
“Everyone is doing it.” —Every kid in the world to his or her mother

 Lewis Carroll did it. J.R.R. Tolkein did it. Mary Shelley did it. There are no famous authors who have confessed being born with the innate ability to seemlessly craft the written word. And that is good news.

 

 

Yes, it is good news that no-one appears to have been born with the ability to write a best-selling novel on the first try with no previous training, with no process, with no outside assistance because that means you can write a praise-worthy five-page paper with a little training (reading), a little assistance (peer review), and a lot of process (the writing process).

 

And this all leads us to another question that was asked: When does the fun start? It starts with the pre-writing (or drafting) once you realize that you can be best at writing if you follow three easy steps.

Write on!

Professor Repentista