Review your syllabus re class requirements; don't lapse into a high school 'tude; that outdated script compromises your professional development.
About those little electric boxes - no one should have to remind you to put them away. Disconnect from your BFF and focus on building your professional skills.
Review the MLA format occasionally; again, this is a matter of professional development. You are preparing to become a young professional.
Remember that you are in college, not high school.
English 1301 - read / study that lengthy handout on persuasive writing. Consider especially both logical arguments (professional writing) and emotional arguments (common in advertisements, speeches, and editorials). Take a look at the Real Clear series of essays daily on the 'net. Read persuasive articles by people with whom you do not agree; learn how to develop arguments and, simultaneously, how to refute them, all in a professional manner.
I should -- should -- have your essays read and marked for you by Monday the 18th.
English 1302 - Read / study Chaucer. I am boring but Chaucer really is fun. Consider direct and indirect character development. Chaucer employs direct development; almost all stories, novels, and films employ indirect development. Consider why.
Your mock-Beowulf creative writing pieces were consistently a joy -- genuinely creative, imaginative, thoughtfully-developed. Thank you. I urge you to keep such efforts as well as your journals; You will enjoy them in a couple of decades.
Over all, I am pleased with your professional demeanor in class (two or three of your classmates could make a better effort). If you maintain your personal sense of professional and industriousness, you should do well in four-year school and in life. Don't develop senior-itis, though; that's the curse of many a final GPA.
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