activity one

Writing before attending college was never a part of my life. I attended a technical school and we never had to do any writing or reading assignments. The biggest obstacle I come across now being in writing intensive courses are the little things that come with writing. I am not very familiar with different formats that are required by different professors. My first writing intensive course I took at IUP was college writing. I did well in it and received an A. I have never kept a journal or wrote in a diary. I've never done blogs or any of that type of writing that is done on the internet. I have recently began sending emails because it is the easiest way to communicate with potential employers around the world. I don't text and the only letters I have ever written are the occasional thank you letters. In high school I took two years of Spanish but as I said earlier high school was not that intensive and really all I know how to do is count to ten. When I write I sometimes find myself rambling on if I am not necessarily interested in what I am writing about. I find myself getting off of topic in an attempt to change it into something that is of interest to me. When I do find myself interested in what I have to write about it becomes a fairly easy task.

What I see being different and possibly difficult is the research that is needed is how credible and accurate the places or people are that you receive your information. To me, credibility is the biggest obstacle in research writing. When doing research writing, you may be researching something that may not be of interest to someone else. An obstacle now is there to make the audience interested enough to read your research. Research writing seems to be that you are attempting to tell or educate someone about a topic. In your writing you would be telling and explaining things to people that they have never heard previously.