Monday, January 29, 2007

What are your goals and/or expectations for this semester?

My goals and expectations for this semester are multiple things. First, I would like to increase my vocabulary, and have fewer grammatical errors. Second, I would like to be able to write very good sentences and paragraphs. Finally, I would like to be able to use my accomplishments from my other goals to write a wonderful essay.

I feel that my first goal is one of the most important goals because it will help me work on accomplishing my other goals. If I improve my vocabulary, I will be able to write very sophisticated sentences. Having fewer grammatical errors will also help me work towards my next goals. The key to writing a great essay is to have little to no grammatical errors and different word usage throughout the paper. These are the areas where I could really use some help.

Once I have improved my vocabulary and decreased my grammatical errors, I can move towards completing my new goal. This goal is to write better sentences and paragraphs. In my opinion I think that improving my vocabulary is the first step to write a good sentence. Having different words in my vocabulary will help me to make my sentences be more appealing rather than dull and boring. Once I have mastered writing good sentences I can move on and use the same technique to write great paragraphs.

The last goal I would like to complete this semester would be that I would like to be able to write a well-written paper. I find that this is very important because in every class that you take, you write several papers. If you do not write a good paper, you will most likely score fairly low and that will hurt your grade. This can cause you to fail and not get the kind of job that you are aiming for.

My goals and expectations for this semester and the most important goals to me because I feel that after I will complete them I will be able to succeed in school and throughout life. The key to becoming a good writer is to have a wide range of vocabulary, no grammatical errors, and well-written sentences and paragraphs. I hope that this class will help me to accomplish my goals.

1 comment:

Daniel said...

This is an excellent start to your journal Melanie. It seems that you already have a good grasp of many of the elements of quality writing - great grammar and vocabulary would be the icing on the cake!