Week 1

English 3201 started with the usual students and professor introductions; getting to know one another. Also, each student created their blog. Our first official topic was: the essay. I've been writing essays since middle school. Now in college, especially because I'm an English major, essays are everyday assignments in my literature and other advanced courses, and writing them comes naturally. But I took my knowledge for granted, because when I was asked what an essay was, I was completely blank. I was so focused on writing essays, that I forgot the technicality about them, and their structure. Again, I used to wrote them naturally, without actually thinking about topic sentences or number of paragraphs. And this is exactly why I took this course, I don't want to keep learning new topics and forget the important basis of the English language.