For this course, I hope to achieve a greater command of the English language, and also to strengthen my grammatical skills. Writing has long been one of my most cherished activities. I have always relished the opportunity to record and refine my thoughts on paper. I hope that the assignments for this course will challenge and inspire me to create and think new ideas. I am looking forward for the chance to receive feedback from my peers, and hopefully strengthen my own editing ability by reading their papers. By the end of this course I hope to have written several pieces which i will be proud to share with my friends and family. I look forward to having fun, hearing other classmates opinions and analysis of class readings. I hope to improve my time management and overall writing efficiency. In the past I have had trouble waiting until the last minute to write a paper or essay. For example I wrote my ten page senior project in high school in about 3 days. I received an good grade, but I knew that the quality of my work could have been higher had I operated more responsibly. I would like to learn how to spread my creative process out over a longer period of time. I would also like to approach my creative process with less pessimism. Sometimes I can damage my writing with self doubt or fear. Sometimes I can be afraid of disappointing myself as much as I fear receiving criticism from others. I hope that in this course I can learn to be more confident and reassured in my writing and my thought process. I am optimistic that if i meet these goals and put in the necessary effort that i will transform into a more efficient, concise, and conscious writer.