Hi, my name is Jonathan Robinson and I am a senior Tourism Management major with an emphasis in Casino and Hotel Management at The University of Southern Mississippi. I am a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, where it has molded me into the person that I am today. My future plans after graduating college next May is to hopefully become a Disney Imaginer, and jump aboard as an internship with them for next fall. One interesting fact about me, is that my sophomore year, I rode a bicycle across from San Francisco, California to Washington D.C., to raise funds and awareness for people with disabilities. This was through my fraternity’s philanthropy Push America.
While in college, I have taken three English courses so far, and they are the following: English 101, 102, and 203. While I have been a Tourism Management major and especially an emphasis in Casino Management major I have had to write a lot of scenarios, analysis, and discussion style papers incorporating professional analysis to certain situations such as: Marketing analysis, Food and Beverage Analysis, Human Resource Analysis, and etc.
I really enjoy creative writing, and expressing myself through different styles of writing, and I really have enjoyed writing my professional style papers, because it is incorporating what I will be doing in the future, and is preparing in correct the way of writing these analysis.
I don’t believe that I have ever had writing break down for me in a severe situation, but I can see where writing could break down for a person if they do not know the proper techniques of styles of writing before they attempt a certain situation where the importance of the writing at particular time is a must. For instance, in my analysis if the professional of a Food and Beverage Director does not know how to write to explain or inform a CEO of a casino the daily profit and loss of the company, it could fail him and result in the Food and Beverage director losing his job. Basically, I think writing fails because a lot of people are scared to write or loss interest in learning the proper techniques and styles of writing and that is where it can fail people.
Last but not least, the one main thing that I hope to learn in this class it to further my learning and ability to a more professional style of writing.
Jonathan,
ReplyDeleteSome really interesting stuff here. That's cool that you bicycled cross country. My wife and I are fans of bicycling, but I don't think we could make it cross country. I also think it's cool that you want to be a Disney Imagineer. Sounds like a fun job. Good luck with it.
So regarding your writing. Any of the scenario, analysis, or discussion papers you've written for Tourism Management sounds like a good candidate for the first course project. I haven't had too many Tourism Management majors in this class in the past, so I look forward to finding out more about writing within your major myself.