Hello my name is Matthew Rodriguez (he/his) , and my intended major is Psychology.

After reading over the syllabus, I am mostly excited to learn how to write clearly in using different types of academic formats that I was not taught in high high school. What I am very nervous about after reading the syllabus is having to use technology to write and revise my work because most of my written work throughout my life was not online. The qualities of a good writer is patience, having the ability to write intellectually, and being able to use evidence to help your writing make sense to the person reading it. It is important to be able to write well because it can help you to think about more ideas when it comes to your everyday life. For example, if I can think quickly when I write and be able to focus while doing that, then that could help me to focus more and think more quickly and decisively in everyday task in my life. The easiest part about writing for me is being able to think freely when it comes to the ideas that flow through my head. If you gave me an assignment to write about something I can relate to, then I could easily write a lot about it because of how free my mind is while writing. A skill that I do well in writing is write passionately about what I am saying so the person reading can actually feel what I am saying and understand me without even being there. The hardest part about writing for me is writing many pages because I did not get that experience in high school. What I could do to work on it is to have more patience when I am writing essays that require five or more pages. I am not very sure about what genres I will be expected to write for my major in psychology. But if I were to guess, I feel like I would have to write about what is wrong with my patients and how do their experiences align with their behavior and the way that they act towards certain situations. I might also have to write and talk about how I can help them and different ways to fix their problems. I am a people person and I can read and understand people very well and why they do the things they do. I definitely feel confident that my ability to understand people can help me to do very well in this field.

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