Letter of Introduction

August 26, 2009

Dear Stephanie Scott:

For the first assignment of the year, you have instructed us to write you a letter that provides you with important or interesting information about ourselves. In the next few paragraphs, I will try my best to inform you of any facts that will make for a more exciting and fun semester in English 110. If I fail, well then I guess it will just be a surprise for you to figure out as the semester goes along.

I was born in the state of Texas on the first of November in 1990. Though I only lived there for three years, I like to consider myself as a Texan at heart. I’m not entirely sure why though. The 100 degree weather would not suit me well. I am much fonder of weather between 60-80 degrees, so the weather right now is perfect in my opinion. But other than my brief stint in Texas, I’ve lived in a small town called Tremont the rest of my life. Tremont is a nice little town of 2,100 people that reminds me of the little bar in Boston called Cheers. Everybody seems to know your name.

I’m not exactly what you would call an athletic person, but I do love to watch sports on television so that has to count for something. I do golf a little but that is about the extent of my athletic abilities. One of my favorite activities to do is watch St. Louis Cardinal games either on TV or actually going to games. I’m glad that this class is in the morning because the playoffs are coming up soon and I might have to skip class if there was a big game on.

Throughout this semester, I hope to be able to improve my overall writing skills. I know that sounds very bland and not particular at all, but I do want to strengthen my writings in all areas. English has never been my best subject so sometimes it can come as a struggle. Hopefully I can pick up on a couple of key concepts that will stick with me as my life goes on because I know that I won’t get away from writing.

Another goal of mine is to improve on my peer response abilities. If I am responsible for making another student’s paper better, then I feel I should understand where he/she needs help and how best I can offer my help. I know I would want someone to check my papers who knew how to grammatically improve the overall flow of my paper.

Well hopefully this paper has given you a little better understanding of who I am and what I am kind of about. I’m sure as the year goes on you will discover more about me and hopefully I will learn more about you. Being that I am more of a math kind of guy, which to me is like the opposite of English, I am actually rather excited about this year in English 110

Sincerely,

Jack Stout