While I would love to get an A in the course I do hope that to improve my writing skills by taking this course. My last semester, when I took Western Civ, I was able to scrape an A- by doing well on exams, but I received B’s on all my papers and I had no idea why they were getting those marks. I hope that by taking this class I’ll be able to figure out why my papers went wrong and what I can do to improve them. I’m also not a big fan of sharing my work with my peers so I’m hoping that over the course of the semester I’ll become more comfortable with that aspect of the class.
I love to study history because it, like a good book, can suck you in. History gives you the power to jump back as many years as you like and put yourself in another life for a while. It’s interesting to me because while you’re studying it’s like you have the ability to use your own imagination and find your own interpretations of things that happened so long before you were even thought of. If I had to pick a type of history I found most interesting I’d probably say military history, but mostly I like the politics behind the battles more than the battle details themselves.
Wow - that's 3 for military history in this course! I might be outnumbered. Steph - we will be working a lot on writing so I think this will help. I understand your worries about sharing your work with peers but our goal is not about critiquing but learning from each other - and we'll try just with a few students at first.
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