I’d like to know more about you, so I can work with your interests, experiences and attitudes to create a comfortable and effective learning environment for you. I’d also like to see what you already know about writing. So, please design a document that gives me the information that I request in a useful form. Thanks!

• Name

• Student # or other identifier

• E-mail and/or phone and any limitations (e.g. calling times)

• Websites (your own, ones you like)

• Year and academic area

• Career direction

• What do you consider to be the most interesting thing about yourself?

• Name some scientific or technical subjects that you find particularly interesting.

• What are some of your nonacademic interests/activities?

• When did you last take a writing course? What kind?

• What are the three most recent communications you have written (papers, reports, memos, proposals, etc.) and for whom?

• What would you like to improve about your writing? Confess your chief anxiety about writing and about this course.

• What other courses are you taking this semester (please include instructor name and/or section number)?