Name: Jaden Fabro

Intended Major: Architecture

Preferred Gender Pronouns: she/her/hers

After reviewing the syllabus, I am most eager to develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing. This is because I believe they are very versatile and will prove to be useful no matter what I continue to study. Although I do understand that in order to achieve these strategies I will have to write a large amount, I’m anxious about the multiple page essays that we will have to submit. In high school, I became used to my teachers limiting my page count to two or three pages, so I always kept my writing concise. I hope that when I write these essays, I won’t sound redundant to fill the page count.

Good writing has a purpose and is delivered concisely and effectively. In order to achieve this result, practice is key. The more someone writes, the more they’ll become familiar with different techniques and writing styles that will improve their writing. It’s important to be a good writer because it’s one of the most used forms of communication. In everything we do as students and later as adults, we will have to communicate our thoughts, ideas, and feelings efficiently in school and the workplace, which being good writers will do for us.

The easiest part of writing for me is getting words down on a page. I may not know what exactly to write, but I almost always have some idea of what I’m trying to get at. I find that when I’m on my first draft, I work better with quantity over quality. Then once I have all my ideas down, I focus on the quality of my paper. Revising and editing on the other hand, is more difficult for me. I have a hard time determining how much I should cut out or expand on certain ideas from my original draft.

I plan on becoming an architect after college. In this field, I’ll be expected to write reports on different projects and possible proposals for new ones. By becoming an effective writer, I will be able to clearly express my ideas to my colleagues and coworkers. This will also allow us to have a coherent end goal and will make communication between us a lot easier. I believe this will result in successful projects that will then result in an increase in career opportunities.

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