Two Weeks In...

I am just over two weeks into the fall semester at school  As I mentioned before, I am taking a Technical Writing class to fulfill my English core requirement.  I chose the Technical Writing over the Composition II class because the thought of reading books and writing reports, doing research papers, etc is not my strong suit and did not sound all that appealing to me.  The course description of "Intensive Study of and practice in professional settings" from letters, to memos and emails sounded more practical and applicable to where I am now and will continue to be in my career.  After two full weeks of class, I can definitely say that it is an intensive study in writing.  Although some research is needed in preparing and responding to the weekly discussion posts, and in the various letters and memos we have created so far, I feel confident I made the right choice in picking the Technical Writing class over the Composition class.  The writing assignments and projects we are doing are covering a wide variety of subjects and audiences.  I am currently working on a letter to my senator or representative about something that needs to change at school.  I will admit this is a topic that is taking some extra time to get started on because I am only taking online courses and since my employer is helping to pay for my education, I do not encounter the issues that a typical student may have.  But I will put pen to paper and brainstorm in the next day or so and it will come together it always does.  I will just keep it on the "To Do List", because I always have too much to do.