Welcome!

1. Hello there, my name is Daniel Orejuela. My pronouns are he/him. If you have a question about me just ask, I’m a very straightforward person that speaks their mind. So if I may have said something offensive to you please don’t read too much into it because most likely I wasn’t even thinking that far and just said the first thing that came to mind. 
2. My main focus for this class is just trying to improve my writing by either improving punctuation or to improve the tone of my writing. For the punctuation part I mostly have the problem of being unable to understand when it’s an appropriate time to use punctuation marks. Like commas, semi-colons, and colons. On the side of my tone, I tend to always write in a formal format and tone throughout my papers. Automatically, that is my go-to tone whilst writing. I want to change that so that I can try to use different tones throughout my papers so that when you read it doesn’t sound like a research paper. I want to sound approachable to readers so that they feel as though they’re having a normal everyday conversation with someone close.
3. I remember reading in the syllabus that if we communicate to you about needing more time to turn in an assignment that’s totally understandable and that you would help students to catch up on late assignments or to go ahead in the class. About how much time from either side would be acceptable? Like would being 2-3 weeks behind on assignments/projects or 2-3 weeks worth of assignments ahead of schedule be alright? What would be your limits on being behind or ahead, or would there be no limits as long as you can reasonably estimate that a student has enough time to accomplish all the assignments by the end of the course?

One of the rules about writing that I had grown up with was to always talk in the third person when writing any and all papers unless the prompt specifically states otherwise. I still tend to go by this rule in a lot of circumstances which is what I hate because I had slowly developed a writing style that completely repels this rule. My writing style resembling one to where it sounds like I’m having a casual conversation with the reader. So even when I write my papers, I tend to take many hours on the simplest of papers because I fear that my teacher/professor wouldn’t accept it because it’s not written the way it’s supposed to. I like to use casual tones in my essays/papers.

My relationship with writing is honestly very tricky for me. I usually write whenever I have an assignment to do and when given the option of a powerpoint or writing, I will tend to just write an essay in most cases. Otherwise on most days I wouldn’t write unless I have to in order to express my complete thoughts. Thinking about it now, I think I have a love hate relationship with writing. At some points in time I love writing because I can talk for however long I want and use bits of evidence found online to just tie up my entire essay/paper together. Which I do find enjoyable, especially when I gain a glimpse of inspiration on what to write about. So because of this need for inspiration, what I’ll do is focus on other assignments in the mean time and think about the paper I need to write throughout my day just thinking about how to write and organize it. However the days that I absolutely just detest and loathe writing is when I’m being rushed. I have way too many ideas in my head on how to write this essay that I usually don’t know where to even begin. Then when I do begin I tend to cross everything out and restart because I didn’t like it enough to keep it. This habit sticks with me in any situation, even in large exams and whatnot. I remember writing an essay during my AP exam and I crossed out nearly two pages of writing because I didn’t like the tone I used.