There are two issues that have come up while I've been reading self-introduction essays. I would like to bring them to everyone's attention right away, so everyone who still needs to attend to these issues will get on with reviewing their self-intro's right away.
The first issue is a privacy issue with respect to your decision whether to include your full names on your blogs. As I've said repeatedly in class, and reiterated in a number of private messages, I strongly recommend against using family names anywhere on your blogs. Given names, nicknames and blog handles suffice both for personal profiles and in self-introductions.
The second issue concerns development of your essays in general, and self-introductions in particular. Quite a few of the self-introductions that I have reviewed have been shy on words and short on paragraphs. Remember the minimum length for self-intro's is 150 words.
For each topic that you raise while introducing yourself: place of origin, family membership, choice of college & major, future goals..., what have you, I suggest that you add details, examples and explanations. For example, instead of just writing, "We have a dog," you can add what kind of dog it is, how long it has been in the family, and whether it stays indoors or out. The same goes for development your second essays about campus life.
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