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My name is Chris Ferrante and I am a freshman at Texas Christian University this year. I am from Houston, Texas and I am majoring in Business (not sure what type), and hopefully I can find the time to Minor in Psychology. I am into all sports, especially rugby and I play for number of teams including the TCU Rugby Team, and also the the USA U19 National Team. I have had the privilege to play overseas in England representing the US, and also outside the country in Canada.
I am interested in taking this course because I do enjoy to write, and I also like to see what other people thing of my writing. The majority of the writing I do now is probably things such as emails, text messages and conversations of instant messenger. I have always liked writing made up stories or something that takes a little bit of creativity to write. I'm usually not of fan of writing about something that has a ton of facts to it, and that you feel like you absolutely need to cover everything. Another thing I highly dislike is trying to interpret poems, or novels because sometimes it is very difficult to see eye to eye with authors or poets. Early in high school I had an awesome English teacher for two years and she helped me a ton with my writing skills. When I first start to develop ideas on major essays, I tend to make a list or an outline over things such as a thesis statement, main points, and closing paragraphs and then gradually put them into paragraphs and attempt to make them flow. When I writing things like facebook messages, emails, or text messages I usually just write what i think in no particular order. I think writing is important in our lives because it allows us to express what we feel, and to learn what other people think and feel.
Overall I think my writing is pretty good, but could definitely use some major improvements. Along with creative writing, I like to write about sports, or anything else that I am pretty knowledgeable about. I usually have difficulty developing and essay and making it flow with the rest of the essay. I can get my ideas down and plan it out, but usually have trouble with writing them out into paragraph form. I would like to improve on closing out my essays strong, and making them all flow , so that all the thoughts and ideas fall together in the end. I have read, understand, and agree to the terms of the course syllabus, which I see as a contract for our course.