General Instructions
Label your file: First Name_Last Name_02_HW #2_My Writing Life
Add your name to the heading (upper left corner).
Delete the instructions and the prompt before submitting your essay. Your assignment
should begin with the title of your essay.
Assignment and Formatting Instructions
Title: Create an original title for your essay, one that reflects the content of your writing.
Title formatting:
o Follow the convention for capitalization in titles.
o Title font: 12-pt Times New Roman, Bold
o Title formatting: center text
Body font: 12-pt Times New Roman
Paragraph formatting: align left
Paragraph indentation: 0.4” – 0.5”. Indent the first lines of all paragraphs, except for
the very first paragraph. (Note that the first paragraph of papers and other similar
documents are never indented.)
Margins: 1”
Spacing: 1.5
Length: 1000 words (minimum), approximately 2 ½ pages
Prompt
Tell me about who you are as a writer and give me accounts of three or four different events in
your writing life that you think support and make clear your self-description. Your purpose is to
help me get to know you as a writer, and to help me understand the kinds of things you would
like to work on this quarter.
Explanation
This assignment asks you to introduce yourself as a writer. Tell me about your strengths, about
things you don’t feel you are good at, about when you have been successful and when you have
not, and why. This is something you know a lot about—even if you haven’t reflected much on
it—but about which I know nothing. Yet as your instructor, it will help me greatly to know as
this course begins about your strengths and needs as a writer, about the kinds of writing you’ve
done, and, especially, what problems you have encountered.
In thinking about what to write, you might reflect on the following questions:
Would you say you are a good writer?
What have you written in your life?
Has all your writing been for school?
Is writing part of your social life?
Have you ever really wanted to write something? What? When? How? With what
results?
Do you like writing? Do you hate it? Fear it? Are you indifferent to it?
Are you comfortable as a writer? Confident? Why, or why not?
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