Required Journal Entry 1: Me, A Writer?
Attitude: After reading Chapters 1–4 in your textbook, describe your attitude toward completing
this course. As part of the description, explore how your feelings about being required to take a
composition course may affect your performance in accomplishing the course objectives.
(1 paragraph, 6 sentences)
Inventory: Take the learning inventory quiz starting on page 35 in your textbook. Explain what
you learned about yourself as a writer working through the inventory exercise. Discuss two ways
you want to improve as a writer and why. (1 paragraph, 6 sentences) Use text book -> Successful College Writing,
Brief Fifth Edition, by Kathleen T. McWhorter
