Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 137, No. 08
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WeekinDistortion .. :.: ................................................... 27 Final Word ................................................................... 28 SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER 2,1995 1 Freshman Writing Program Needed: Office Space From the beginning of time, I think, I have known that I wanted to be an English major. Dear Editor, Ilovetoread,I love to write, and Ilooked forward to pursuing these interests on a university Laura Merritt's article "Outgrowing LaFortune" last week raised level-with people who loved these subjects as much as I did and would help me with a topic that does not usually receive much attention, namely that my writing and interpretive skills. Help me-enhance what I already knew about writing. office space for student organizations is severely lacking. I am I had no idea exactly how much raw instruction I needed. I assumed I knew how to write writing from the perspective of someone who can see the tangible because I liked to write. It came as quite a surprise, then, when I realized at mid-tenn, benefits of office space but has yet to acquire this resource. second semester of my freshman year, that I had a solid 'F' in my Composition and As a member of the new and active College Democrats, the difficulties of organization and communication are readily appar Lit~rature class. I was not just doing poorly in a university-requirement; I was failing the eqUIvalent of an Intro-to-English. In my opinion, I had already failed as an English major. ent to me. I am familiar with the headaches and inconveniences that My problems with the class culminated during an in-class essay. I knew I had an 'F' in could ultimately be avoided with an allotment of office space. We the class, and I felt my perfonnance on the test somehow equated to my overall success as have no place to keep important resources and literature regarding . an English-majoring human being in college. I have never dealt well with pressure, and everything from Congress to the local city council; we have no I got no further than writing the first four sentences of my essay. Then I quit and resigned means of contacting our members as a whole because we do not myself to failure. Until I spoke with my teacher-the next day, my head a little clearer, and have an office phone; we have no general meeting area, and we I realized my mistakes were correctable. There was still a lot I could learn about writing must therefore shuffle back and forth across campus every week; that would help ~e during the next four years. The class did teach me how to organize