Introduction Essay

Eighteen years, ten months, twenty-one days, and nine hours ago (give or take), a little girl was born. A pleasant surprise to her free-spirited parents who never planned on life outside the two of them. She grew up as the only child in a world flowing with the steady stream of her parents loud, adventurous friends. She was showered with love, attention, art, and really good books.

Being raised to have much older friends, she was always too smart for her own good and her “mouth” frequently got her in trouble. But they loved it... this loud, quick-witted, large-eyed little girl with spit-fire comebacks and the ability to be content in entertaining herself with art and books.

From an early age she knew exactly what she wanted to be: an artist, a writer, or a teacher. Ok maybe not “exactly” what she wanted to be. Now she’s a college student studying to be a graphic artist. She aspires to work in the publishing industry as a desktop publisher, designing the kind of books she’s loved to read throughout her life. And maybe one day she will teach graphic arts vocationally.

She finds that communication is the vital thread that has stitched together the panes of her life. Whether it was in the art where she tried to convey her view of her world pictorially. Or in the written pages she typed for teachers, newspapers, friends, and employers. Business cannot exist without the transferring of thoughts and ideas from person to person. Neither love, nor art, nor life itself.

Unfortunately a large sum of mankind takes for granted the basic need to learn how to accurately express oneself properly by the verbal means of speech and writing. It’s that dreaded subject in school. That dreaded thought of “grammar.” Every person is born with the capacity of intelligence, it’s how they learn to convey that, that shows the world their true potential.

I look forward to this writing class, as I have all my past ones, as an opportunity for me to gain greater skill in my use of the written word. Whether words are strung together for creative or technical or business purposes, they are our greatest tool in impacting others.