Now and Future

Compare your present self with your future self.  How are you now? Where are you now? How will you be in the future? Where will you be? Some of the areas you can write on is your education, love life, family, mental condition, physical condition, and others. 

Free Writing-Causes and Effects

For the next 15 minutes, I want you to free write on a topic of your choosing. Here are some topic suggestions:  stress, genetic illnesses, cancer, learning a foreign language, happiness.  Think about the causes and effects of the topic.  What are you curious about? What questions come to your mind? What would you like to find out? Type freely so that you can get your ideas flowing.

Reverse to the Past

If you could return for one year to one age in your life, knowing what you know now, to relive that year as you  wish, which year would you go back to? Describe what it was like and explain why you would want to return to that time? What would you do differently with the knowledge you now possess? 

Language Learning Experience

Write a blog about a language learning experience you have had.  It could have been a beneficial, funny, confusing, embarrassing experience.

What happened? What did you do or say? What were others' reactions? How did you feel? What did you learn from your experience?
Most Embarrassing Language Experience

The Strangest Thing You Have Ever Eaten

What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten (or would like to try)? Find out on the Internet if it was a healthy choice or not.  Did it have any health benefits? How did it make you feel when you ate it? Would you eat it again? Would you prepare it differently? Should everyone be offered a serving of it? Why?

Using Body Idioms on Valentine's Day

Use the body idioms to write a letter, card, blog, or announcement.  You must use at least 5 of the idioms. 

Defining Communication

Read the article below.  

Helping Clients Improve Communication Skills 

By Judith Belmont, MS, LPC
~ 2 min read

Perhaps the most valuable life skill that leads to personal and professional success is the ability to communicate assertively. Especially in this current climate in our country, in which we are exposed everyday to more and more brashness and insensitivity, going over the basics of healthy and respectful assertive communication will help therapists and clients alike in improving their own corner of the world.

Teaching our clients how to effectively communicate and offering guidelines to differentiate between assertive, aggressive and non-assertive communication can provide skills that will improve the quality of their relationships with family, friends, co-workers, clients and others they encounter in everyday life.

Write a blog on how you would define assertive, aggressive, and non-assertive communication.  Give examples of each type of communication.  

Your Spring 2017 Goals

What is your goal in being in the US? What are your goals in studying at CSUF? What are your expectations for this writing class? What do you expect to accomplish by the end of this semester?