Hi everyone,
I am Megan! I'm not sure exactly what Doug is looking for in this introduction, so I'm just going to throw some fun facts about myself out to you all. I am a senior in credits this year, but I am just about a junior in the English program--I thought that I wanted to be a science major for the first two years of my college career (turns out I was wrong!) I am an intern at a publishing company based out of Bozeman, and I've spent most of my spare time over the past year editing novels for publication. It's been a pretty kick ass experience! I am in a sorority, and could not be happier. I really love football, and very avidly follow both the Bobcats and the Seahawks, honestly that's what I spend most of my weekends focused on. As for science writing... Well, I guess it's pretty cool. I think that science is wonderful, even if I am atrocious at it, and I think that writing on science and learning how to write more for that type of genre will be one of those skills that I will be happy to have at the end of this course. Although technical and academic-type writing is not my forte, or even my favorite thing, I am looking forward to what I will learn through this course.
So yeah, that's just a tidbit about me!
I also think it is probably pertinent that I say something about the texts that we are supposed to have read for Thursday, so I'll just throw a little something in here about that too. I would say that the part that struck me the most about the pieces we read this time was the fact that weren't mind-numbingly boring. At 1:35 a.m. I honestly thought I would be bored to death trying to get through these texts, but I was really impressed with the way that they engaged me. The authors of these pieces of science writing wrote in such a way that I felt like I was reading more of a story about stars, or atoms trapped in limestone rather than a piece of science writing. The authors also did a really great job of bringing the people into the piece and making it feel more accessible to me.
