Dear all, 

I am excited and eager to be in this class with you all. We all came into this class with different backgrounds and experiences. Some of us are first-year students trying to adjust to the new college life while some of us have been through the process. Some of us have never been in a skilled English writing class while some of us have been through many. Some of us are thinking about pursuing writing more seriously in the future while some of us just want to know how to write decently well. Whatever the case is, I know that all of us are eager to improve ourselves through ways of writing. All of us want to become better critical thinkers and look into issues through different lenses. All of us want to sharpen our writing skills and never cease to stop our writing just because it is “good enough.” All of us are trying to do our best in this yet again new period of online learning. 

One of my main goals in this class is to be a better writer. I did not start writing at a higher standard until my junior year of high school when I took an English composition class. I learned a lot about writing but was not able to get a lot of personal feedback from my teacher during the pandemic and got a little “lazy” in the process. I think all of us as writers have amazing ideas, but we don’t flesh them out. I hope that we give each other helpful feedback and encourage one another to do our best. I know that I will do well seeing that I have such respectful classmates and a professor who is so eager to work with us this semester. I look forward to the wonderful discussion that we bring to the table. 

Regards,

Yingrong Yang