Questions, Questions, Questions.

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Not sure how many others are in the same boat as me, but the first day of class sure threw every expectation of mine out the window. I thought this was simply going to be another English class where we read novels and short stories by famous authors, sprinkled with a few famous poems, and maybe one or two of the instructor's personal favorites. 


From what I can see, this class is going to be all about modern age stuff. I'm excited about taking a different style of writing class, but also slightly worried. Quite a lot of the subjects and situations that are happening with slacktivism and online protests are very subjective and opinionated topics. With normal writing courses you can fall back on the fact that (most of the time) the author of the novel you're writing a report on had a defined point or goal, so there wasn't much bias you could throw in that report of yours. This, however, isn't like that. I'm curious and worried about how our assignments will be graded. I have full confidence in Dr. Kyburz as a professor, but asking anybody to grade while having no influence from any bias is an almost insurmountable task. This is even harder when you have the stress of grading multiple classes. In short- everyone has biases and they can affect a grade, I'm not saying they "will" I'm saying they can.


The other concern I have is how these blogs should be written and organized. How much leeway do I have with the picture and title before they're considered irrelevant or off-topic? Should they use casual language and have a simplistic idea of "flow" or rather should this blog be treated as a method of posting college-level micro-essays with full attention to structure, word choice, and progression? Should it only be written in a first-person perspective or third-person perspective? Am I thinking too hard about this? Am I allowed to include questions? This post itself may be marked down for attempting to juggle two points that are related to the topic instead of focusing and expanding on one. Or it could be marked down for referring to myself (the author) with a personal pronoun. This paragraph itself could bring down the post's grade for simply discussing the grade! That last part would be some phenomenal irony. While this was brought up in class, the discussion didn't go very in-depth.


Other than those points, I think that I'm pretty excited to start a different style of writing class. Hopefully I will be able to understand and adapt to it!