Wow they're young

The class this month is Advanced English Composition. Sounds challenging until reading the syllabus I get

"ENG 240 students are assumed to have prerequisite college-level skills in spelling, grammar, punctuation, paragraphing, and essay writing. This course will not address remedial writing issues at the sentence, paragraph, or essay level"

If they have to point that out that means it's been a problem in the past.

Amusingly enough it's a lower level version of the one I took last March, it's just how the schedules worked out. Needless to say I'm not that stressed. The busy work is annoying but at least it's quick and easy.

In place of a class discussion NU uses discussion boards. I have to post for each topic and then make at least two responses to other people. Fair enough, class participation etc. The point of this class is to write a persuasive essay, so one of the assignments was to take a stand and tell us why.

Wow they're young. I read these and all I want to do is bring up studies that flatly contradict what they're saying. Someone touched on abortion needed to be illegal because 'studies say people use it for birth control'. Another one was saying that 'there is no correlation between seat belt wearing and injuries in accidents', according to studies of course. The point of this was not to prove your point but to make sure you could articulate reasons that may support your point. All I wanted to do was smack them down, but it's not the time or the place.

I did respond to the abortion one talking about how it is a shame that such a controversial procedure is mixed up in the fundamental question, can the government tell me what I can and can't do medically. I would be ecstatic if someone in that class read that and maybe looked at the whole pro-choice vs pro-life thing a little differently.

For the record, I pray that I am never in a situation where I have to choose weather or not to have an abortion, but I will NOT sit back and let the government tell me what I can and can not do with my body.

Oh and I always wear my seatbelt =)