Class Blog: Elizabeth Vazhenin

      High School academic writing and collegiate academic writing definitely differ in many ways, to say the least. In high school, teachers prepare you for college writing but they mostly only teach you the basics like how to format your essays and the general idea of correct grammar usage. I actually found it very interesting how much different college professors take your writing, especially when you come straight out of high school. Professors expect you to have all the knowledge already going into college but they don't stray away from giving you all the possible resources you need to help you. College academic writing is much for intricate in so many ways, but it opens up so many more opportunities and allows for so many more advances in your future careers.

      The organizational strategy that I am using for my essay is chronological and exemplary. I am using this method because it is the most efficient way to describe the major I am pursuing and the best way to objectify why it is a good idea. A logical argument that I will use in my essay is the fact that most people want to grow up to live lavish lifestyles. But gaining that lavish lifestyle requires a lot of work and a lot of effort. I argue that becoming a pilot might be very time and money consuming while in progress, however, once you go through your only 4 years it is amazing what you get in return. I think this logical argument will work because it shows that becoming a pilot does not require a lot of time in school, but still gives you the opportunity to live a very lavish lifestyle.

      The rhetoric context is a way of explaining the purpose of your article including the audience and the central focus of the essay. In my essay, I will be discussing the aviation industry, and how becoming a pilot is so worth it. To start, Carroll says in her article "Our worlds are full of these kinds of social influences." I found this quote especially important to my topic because the media has a large effect on an industry, and aviation has been a great target of it. You may have seen many negatives things whether it be about accidents or misguided pilots, but they rarely include the wonderful things about the aviation industry and how it strives to be bigger and better every day. In my essay, by rhetorical and actual means, I will be trying my best to convince you that becoming a pilot or becoming involved in any aviation industry job will be the best decision you ever made.

     Academic writing, as discussed, has a lot of structure and responsibility. Although everything eventually comes together, evidence from various sources is what makes your essay scholarly. Now I am not an expert, nor am I a published writer but with the topic given for Doc1, I was very excited to research and write. I wrote my essay on the topic of procrastination because this has been one of my most compromising struggles all throughout school. I would put off whole semesters of school work just because I didn't have the motivation or the energy to put in the work. When writing and researching for this essay I realized that just using my own experience wasn't enough and I needed to find scholarly articles in order to provide evidence as to why procrastination occurs. Utilizing articles like A cademic Procrastination among Male and Female University and College Students and Academic procrastination of undergraduates: Low self-efficacy to self-regulate predicts hi...

I am writing this essay, not to inform students of what not to do in school, but to provide a better understanding for myself and others on why procrastination has crept its way into our lives. Procrastination most threatens me in my classroom success because there's always something more enticing to do than my own homework. Especially within the past year (aka the pandemic) most school work has been online. This made it very hard to log on every day and you could easily push it later and not think about it. The communication triangle makes organization for this essay simpler. As I will be the writer of this essay, I will be writing from personal experience about my troubles with procrastination. The reader of this essay will be my fellow classmates who may have also at some point come across procrastination and it may be relative to them. Of course, the subject or problem of the essay being procrastination, which is what will be the main discussion and solution of my essay. The te...

 Hello Class, My name is Elizabeth Vazhenin, but I go by Liza. I was born and raised in Atlanta but my family is originally from Russia. I speak, read, and write in Russian as well as French. I have been a competitive swimmer my entire life but have chosen to give that up to pursue a career in flying. Both of my parents were Olympic swimmers for the Russian team in the 84' Olympics. I enjoy flying and traveling with my friends and family. I attended Middle Georgia during my senior year of high school as a dual enrollment student and I am graduating from high school on Memorial Day, and will officially be a full-time student majoring in Aviation science and management/Flight.