Intro to Unit One 1/19

As this is the first post on this new blog i think it is important I let you know a little bit about me, the blogger. I was born and raised in Ventura, California, a small city on the coast of southern California. Currently I am studying both Biology and Chemistry here at TCU and am currently in my sophomore year of studies. This semester i decided to take the Intermediate Composition: Writing Argument course to finish my written communication requirement at TCU. this will be the focus of this blog.

Personally i feel that this class is going to be somewhat difficult for because i haven't taken a writing class since high school, due to my focus on my biology/chemistry major courses. However, I think that this class can and will provide for me an opportunity to expand my education in another direction and I am excited about this prospect. Like any aspect of aspect of life learning to write better comes primarily from practice therefore, to make the most out of this class i plan to fully engage in all the writing required and to continually critique my work in order to improve my writing skill.

Even though i have not taken a formal writing class in quite some time, writing is still an integral part of most of my work in other classes, as well as in life. I write almost everyday in emails and texts as a way to communicate with others and coordinate my life. Even though most of my classes are in the disciplines of biology and chemistry writing till plays a heavy part in them. I am constantly writing lab reports recording and presenting the results of my various experiments.

Essentially all writing is an argument, as described in chapter one of Everything is an Argument. So what have i argued in the preceding paragraphs? My first argument was one of information. By simply relying to you, the audience, some basic facts about myself I have created an argument. I have told you something you didn't already know. Also in doing so I have created a link between myself and my audience by casting us both as students and peers, appealing to my ethos. While this was intended to be the main argument in this post, I have written several other arguments, some I did not even realize. In my second paragraph the use of the "practice makes perfect" reference could be viewed as an argument to convince the audience that this is a true notion. The notion that even science classes place a heavy emphasis on writing, is also an argument to convince. Even my own acknowledgement of these arguments can be interpreted as arguments themselves, leading to a possibly endless deconstruction of any argument i make. This means that everything i write in this blog can potentially be viewed as an argument and be used as potential material for class discussion.