My Writing Experience

I have not taken ENC1101. I took AP Lit and AP Lang. Freshman year of highschool I was in Eng. I honors and we read much of Shakespeare and wrote numerous essays, etc. Sophomore yr in highschool it was very similar material in Eng II honors and we read things like Night by Elie Wiesel and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Junior yr was AP Lang and we wrote essays thoughout the whole year, focusing on following prompts and observing well developed essays. We read things like The Scarlet Letter and Their Eyes Were Watching God, etc. Then Senior yr essays ceased to be a huge factor of class. This class primarily focused on plays and classics and poetry rather than writing things like essays. We read works of Shakespeare, William Faulkner, and EE Cummings, to name a few. We focused on interpreting and digging into text to uncover meanings of the authors, both subtle and obvious. Out of all my highschool English courses, I probably preferred AP Lit and Eng. II. I enjoyed digging into the text and getting to the heart of the author's intentions. They were fascinating. Although I don't mind writing essays, I didn't like AP Lang because I felt many of the prompts forced me to write essays that I did not really care about. It is so much harder to write about something you have no interest in as opposed to writing about something that you are attached to or at least interested in. Words flow on the page when it is something that sparks my curiosity or interest. Lastly, last semester I took WOH 1030 which was modern history since 1815. This course included 2 research papers. I really enjoyed these because they allowed me to research a subject[based on a book we read] and expound upon it in my essay. I love to learn extensively and be an expert in a subject in that way. Much was learned. My 2 topics were 1) Frederick Douglass, and 2) An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia.