Let's figure out where we are. In this first assignment, please introduce your interest in developing your skills in written communication in a variety of contexts.  Your goal here is to identify where you are starting from and where you want to end up. Identify personal real-life applications of written communication.  What do you hope to accomplish in this course?  The following is a list of questions you can use to guide your response.

1.  What interests you about narrative, expository, descriptive, or persuasive writing in English Language Arts?  Why did you choose to take this course online?

2.  What are your experiences?  Do you prefer one of the modes of writing more than the others?

3.  What do you most enjoy writing?  opinion pieces, persuasive essays, narrative stories, descriptive imagination, explanations, poems, songs, graphic novels?

4.  Is there a specific field or profession for which you would enjoy writing? 

5.  What are your strengths in your writing?

6.  Where do you get your ideas?  Do you enjoy research?

7.  Have you considered the quality and reliability of the websites you use for your school assignments?  How do you decide if a website is truthful or not?

8.  Have you used any form of citation before? (you've been required to provide the information about a resource).

9.  What do you need from your teacher to advance your writing skills?

This is where you will upload your assignment to your teacher for marking.

You will upload the file containing your assignment:

Name the file with your name and the title.  eg. Sally Brown Self Reflection

• • Click Add submission
  • Upload the file containing your Log post under File submission
  • Click Save changes.