mid Term Letter

Dear Marlen,

When I first signed up for your class last year I remember that you scared the crap out of me with those e-mails over the summer about how much work your classes were. I was actually thinking about dropping before the first day, I’m so glad I didn’t I loved that class and its looking that way again for this class too. I hate research writing, I really do. I hate having to look up refereed sources and making works cited pages. This class is a SHIT TON of work and, I’m not gonna lie,  I really thought that I was going to hate this class with a passion because I hate having to actually collect research. But I really like how you have broken up the work so that it all fits very nicely together with little organizational effort on my part because of the way the course is mapped out.

So far I narrowed down my topic and I thought that I had everything under wraps for the most part, that was until I sat down and tried to actually find articles pertaining to research. The complete lack and void of refereed articles on my subject completely freaked me out. I then just tried to continue on neglecting the fact that I knew that if I kept my topic the same as I had it I wasn’t going to be able to finish it at all. So I had to refocus my topic to a slightly more narrow subject area. It’s not exactly what I want to do but I’m sure I’ll live. I had the same reaction right before I re-focused my topic that I had when I first took you’re 101 class, I wasn’t sure if I could pull it off. But now things are going much easier (not by any means “easy”, but easier nonetheless). I know that by the end of this course I will have an awesome paper that I am sure to be proud of but at the same time still think is crap.

The only concerns that I still have about this class is finding the necessary refereed articles for the works cited page because the articles I am finding ar e related to my research topic in a round about  way or only touch on certain parts of my topic. The only other thing that I am worried about is that I still haven’t decided what medium to present my final product in. I really want to try the multi-genre format but I’m not exactly sure if I could pull it off. Well thanks for reading, see you in class.

Sincerely peace,

Phil Monier