Even though I used this one for my midterm report, I feel like it would be a really good example for this next category. A writing style that I haven't used before. This was the very first assignment that I got in this class, and I remember that I was annoyed because I got the email telling me about it before class had even started this semester. My professor asked us to write her a personal letter explaining ourselves and our lives and backgrounds. She also wanted to know about past writing classes and our personal feelings on writing. I thought this was really cool. My very first college assignment was a personal letter to my professor all about me. I really felt like she cared about my personal story and life and interests, which isn't something you find in college professors very often. I had never been asked to write a letter to a teacher before, and this was really cool. In my letter, I talked about my family, best friends, some back ground information on me and my preferred writing style. I said, "I have what I like to call, 'the most boring life of them all'," which I think is ironic now. Before this class started I thought of myself as a way too average human being, but after all the work I've put into this class, I've seen things in myself that I didn't even see before. At the end of my paper, I said, "Maybe one day I'll find out that one of my great great grandparents did something really important in the world. Who knows!" which was basically me suggesting that one day I'll learn something interesting about myself. I think it's really great to see that particular piece of work here a semester later, after learning so much about a unique condition that I have. I really feel like this class pushed me to learn more about myself and come to discover a new love for writing. This letter is a wonderful example of just how much I have grown in the past semester with the help of this class.
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