Advice for English 101:Get your thoughts down on paper! Don't worry about producing the final copy at the onset of the assignment; just get your ideas down on paper. Then take full advantage of the peer editing and teacher editing sessions. But at the beginning, don't worry about using the best word possible or even about minor grammatical errors. Just get the big ideas down on paper so that you have something to work with. This is the beauty of the portfolio experience; it is a process. Don't expect to produce a finished product the first time you sit down to do your paper. Just put your thoughts down, and then let the writing process take its course. -- McFadden
English 101 is an interesting class that I learned a lot in, but if I had to give any advice I would say don't take it. I don't know about other people, but I can;t write three papers in a week. If you do take it stay ahead and try to finish your short writes and journals early. They take for ever to write so do them early. Have fun with the class and take extra time to find a topic you like for each of your papers. This will help the papers go quicker, smoother, and make the class go faster.P.S. Take it later in the day. So when you remember that forgot something you have time to go get it or do it. -- Michel
My experience in English 101 at West Virginia University was a very postive one and for the next generation I would like to give some advice. It is a lot of work to write a paper in one night, so when the short writes, journals, or peer reviews are due it helps to get started before those due dates. Also the journals and short writes help to understand the big papers, so do them and do them rite. Also take advantage of the peer review and teacher conferences because the teacher is the one grading your papers so get her advice before handing it in. And obviously go to class, I had english at 9:30 in the morning MWF...I think everyone else can handle it too!!
-Stephanie Learn
My advice is to take part in evrything that the class offers. Peer review, conferences, and the final for now phase are all very important. Participating in these things through out the year will help you develop as a wrtier. As a student who revises a paper over and over again is more liekly to suceed in the class. Participation is important as well, you need to let your voice and opinion be heard.-Yearsley
My advice for the people who take English 101 next is to stay on top of things. You have to write a lot of papers so make sure to get them done on time. If you get behind it is not easy to catch up. The class is much easier if you get things done on time. My other advice would be to go to class. You will learn a lot and you need the attendance points. You only get to miss three days. -- Devan
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I would suggest to make sure you keep a place for all your english papers, so that when its time to do something that you have to turn with, you have it.
Cranfill
Okay.. my adivce to all the upcoming English 101ers.. Revise, Revise, Revise. When you are having writers block try and brainstorm. I know they told us that in high school but really, it gets thoughts going. If you are still having problems take a break and try it again later. Make sure you start your assignments early so you can come back to your paper if you need to. Also, take advantage of peer review because others catch things you may not and can possibly give you new ideas. That's really it. Only miss 3 classes and decide to write papers you are interested in and things will go way smoother!
-Mohr
My experience in English 101 at West Virginia University was a very postive one and for the next generation I would like to give some advice. It is a lot of work to write a paper in one night, so when the short writes, journals, or peer reviews are due it helps to get started before those due dates. Also the journals and short writes help to understand the big papers, so do them and do them rite. Also take advantage of the peer review and teacher conferences because the teacher is the one grading your papers so get her advice before handing it in. And obviously go to class, I had english at 9:30 in the morning MWF...I think everyone else can handle it too!!
-Stephanie Learn
My time in English 101 has been great. Some advice for upcoming students is to never slack off. This includes always writing up journal entries, short writes, major papers, and coming to class everyday. As for the journal entries and shorts writes, some people have said that they are hard and take a long time to do. This is absolutely not true. The journals and short writes were a great way for me to practice writing. They usually do not take a long time to complete, and there is not a whole lot of pressure to write a perfect paper, because we are graded on a check system. The only paper I had to spend a longer time to make was for the major papers. Even though these papers might take more time, the papers were not unfair or unreasonable as long as you went to class and completed the assignments.
--Kang
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