Writing is definitely NOT my BFF

Writing is not the bane of my existence, nor do I find it difficult to write. Writing is a part of everyday life that is, in essence, unavoidable. I write to communicate and for grades, that is the extent of my writing. I am not creative in the sense that I express my self and my emotions in words, I have other means of doing so. For me, writing is most effective when I am trying to explain and/or convince others.

In high school, my teachers taught me, along with my fellow class mates, to write research papers. Our exams were all written, so we were also taught to convince the evaluators that we know everything; albeit we may have known nothing. Specifically, in sophomore year, my class could not find the "deeper meaning" in Hamlet, nor were we experts in Elizabethan times. Our teacher assumed that we simply did not want to share any information, therefore we wrote an essay every single class for two months. Did we know how to answer the prompt? No, but we still had to turn in an essay at the end of class. These essays, mind you, were not the standard five-paragraph essays, most were at least seven-paragraphs, others as much as twelve in a one hour time frame; we were to write until every complete thought was written and supported in our papers. Although I complain about that experience now, writing all of those essays made me a better writer, but it limited the scope of my writing.

I do not intend to sound cynical when I state this, but I think that this class will honestly be a refresher course for me. I know MLA formatting, I can easily write a paper that does not follow the cliche, FCAT taught essay format, and I have already taken a higher, 3000 level, Gordon rule course in which the teacher expected a great deal of writing. All in all, I think this class will be fun, but I don't really expect to be enlightened with an entire new method of writing.