Good day everyone.
My name is Sharon Jasper. I am a single parent, retired military member and part-time student at University of Southern Mississippi, attending classes at both the Gulfport and Gulfport Park locations. I have been attending school for last three semesters or so, and am currently classified as a Computer Science major. But my interests really lie in transferring to Library Science. I have not written any documentation in my major because I have been primarily concentrating on finishing my minor degree in English. Previously I completed a class here and there from Computer Science prior to having decided to move over to Library Science. The only documentation I have written for the most part has happen in my English classes. The majority of the papers are essays and I seem to have a problem laying out my thoughts in a cohesive pattern for my professors. Most state I have great content but a problem with defining a thesis as it should be. As I mentioned earlier I retired from the military and their way of writing seems to be stunting my academic writing. To write in a military format it is usually in a condensed format, straight and to the point without too elaboration. I find I am trying to shed 20 years of living one way and trying to replace it with something I am embracing once again for a few months. I have wrote evaluations while in the military and they are written in bullet format. Like I mentioned short and sweet and to the point because your statements are contained on a small area on a form. If you are lucky you might get 10 statements. I have not written anything for a general audience outside of the school environment.
I really enjoy writing plots for the romantic genre and hope to someday to author a novel. I have enjoyed reading this genre so long that I dream of living the life of having authored a book. It is pure escapism that I know will end in a certain way because it is formatted and scripted. Life being so chaotic, sometimes it is just lovely to escape outside to a different way of life.
Life has a way of breaking you down and building you up so when I suffer any writer's block or have "broken down" in any way I took it in stride and tried to keep on writing. It may not have the best I could have written at that time but I refuse to not to at least attack it as I have my everyday life when confronted by any obstacles. My break down began when I was told about my writing have lack of clarity in one class and I had to write several more essays in another one. It made me doubt my abilities and stunted my thought process for the other class because both required me to write intensely. But like I said I pushed through it, do not get me wrong I had a pity party and then I just went back to writing. Once I started I tried to take the criticism I was given and apply them to my next paper and on and on until the papers were finished.
I am excited and looking forward to this class helping me cement my thoughts and allowing me to make them flow as they should on paper.
