Entry #20

Hello future/current, I guess, ENG 110 students. After already taken this course, I can offer some advise for you. The first would be that you shouldn’t have to worry about having too much work. In the first part of the semester there is a lot of reading, but it tends to tapper off as the year goes on. You will only really have four major things to do as well, but you can’t procrastinate too much on them since you will have to do them in steps, like several drafts for peer editing. Sometimes the actual class time can seem pretty tedious as well, since a lot of what we did didn’t really help me much since I knew a lot about what we talked about, so be prepared to be bored sometimes. You will also have to blog entries, but they aren’t too difficult. That said; don’t just put them off as they do count for a lot of points (that also means they are an easy way to get points). I would make a plan for these and work on them gradually so you don’t have a lot to do at the end of the semester. I would also plan your projects out as well so you aren’t always doing them the night before or right before class. It made it easier for me if my drafts were written as the final as I did not have much revision to do later. A lot of emphasis is placed on peer review, which sometimes helped, but other times I thought it was just a waste of a class period, but it can be useful if you aren’t a strong writer. Hopefully this will help get a feel for what the course will be like. Good luck!