My name is Odalys Garate and I am Freshman at Lehman. My pronouns are She / Her . My intended major is Nursing.  I was born and raised in Queens.  My parents are from Ecuador. I have 3 sisters and I am the youngest of them. In high school activism played an important role in my life and it continues to play that role. That is only a little bit about me 🙂

After reviewing the syllabus, one thing that I am excited about is the class discussions because now that everything is virtual this will be the new way that we will communicate with everyone. I am also very excited about being able to not only write about certain texts given but also about social, political, economic and cultural issues. The things that I am most nervous about is that most of work will be done independently since it is an asynchronous class and the amount of essays that are given are pretty overwhelming but I do understand that with time management they wont feel so overwhelming.

The qualities of good writing are well formed and detailed thoughts and analysis. You should be able to provide a good amount of evidence while also being able to transition your thoughts. It is significant that you are able to get your point across and that your writing is well organized and formalized, that way readers aren’t confused. Nobody wants to read something poorly written. For me the easiest part of writing is probably being able to sort out well your ideas in order to formulate a very well detailed analysis. Something that has helped me a lot is writing an outline of my writing that way my ideas are organized and well thought of. I believe that this is something I do well. However the hardest part of writing for me is coming up with smooth transitions into my new ways of thinking or in other words starting a new topic sentence. This is something I need to work on because this can affect the writing a lot. 

I don’t believe that I will be doing so much writing for nursing but types of writing that I will most likely be doing are charting, care plans and narratives. Being an effective writer can affect my career opportunities because I need to be able to properly write down every patient of mine correct information and just be able to analyze them well so that if anything changes everything is being kept track of and so that everything is being taken care of properly.