Journal Entry #1

Personal, Expository Essay #1
Select a topic for your own Personal Essay. You can use the fastwritings you have done for this class or something entirely different you've thought about outside of class. Also, remember the suggestions we discussed from the textbook about what makes an effective topic.

Once you've chosen a topic, you'll compose a journal entry reflecting on your choice of topic. In it, please cover the following:
• what your topic is
• how you came to decide on that topic
• what questions do you have about the topic that you expect to work through in your writing (or, what do you want to understand about this topic that you don't fully understand now?) - remember that you don't need to have a perfectly neat 'thesis' at this stage in the process

Keep in mind that the journal style is expected to be written in paragraph form but can have a casual, conversational tone. These are more for you as a writer to practice writing and to learn to discover what you think by writing. You should write between 250-500 words for journal entries, unless otherwise noted. Your response should be posted by September Monday, September 8th.