My ENC 1101 Experience (Mike Prosser)

I took ENC1101 in summer school this year. I discovered that college writing is extremely different than any type of writing I was assigned in high school. ENC1101 encouraged you to be creative and personalize your work as much as possible. In high school, there was minimal creativity which made papers and assignments feel like chores. In ENC 1101, I had three major papers. The first paper was a Crot paper. I really enjoyed this assignment because you could write about whatever came to your mind. Also, you wrote about yourself and your past experiences. The two other papers were a short story and a magazine. I liked all of the papers we did but I liked the magazine assignment the most. I think I liked it the most because it was so foreign to me. I have never had to write like that ever before. What I liked most about ENC1101 was the writing assignments because they could be on anything you wanted. I also liked the spontaneous class writings we had to do which made me think and be more creative. What I did not like about ENC1101 was the numerous drafts we were required to do. I know it is necessary in order to hand in the best paper possible, but it became redundant and somewhat a hassle.