Throughout my first year of college, I have completely changed the way I write and how I view writing. I used to view writing as a tedious task that I needed to complete in order to do decently well at any level of education. Assignments were just ways for me to keep my grades up well enough to have a high GPA to get scholarships and to get into the schools I wanted. I would go from teacher to teacher in high school, and every single one just graded my paper as “good enough, and I was fine settling for that. Then, I graduated. I began my college writing career in the summer of 2017. It was during an intensive summer program at the NAU campus, and I was immersed in a world of writing that not one of my previous teachers had prepared me for. I struggled. I found myself having many sleepless and tear-filled nights as I tried to create a paper that would be good enough for the tough-as-nails professor that my scholarship program had hired for the summer. Yet time and time again I found myself staring …show more content…
She was able to give us assignments that she felt would challenge us, while also not being so difficult that we were drowning in them. I found myself enjoying the researching process that came along with each assignment, which is something that I had never experienced in my writing career. I had always viewed researching in an assignment as just another chore that I had to do on top of my already busy schedule. The researching process that I enjoyed the most in English 102 would have to be the ethnography project. This project was my favorite as it was the first time that I had experienced enjoying the research I was doing. During this project, I was able to research my home and an industry that I had been apart of for more than 15 years. Being able to do a project that I could talk about my home was amazing, and I truly enjoyed being able to share my experiences as part of the agriculture/rural town