02-03-2012, 11:29 PM
Strunk & White? That's like learning to drive a car by first getting a PhD in engineering so you can build the car yourself.
You need to learn to drive the car first. Then you can learn how to build it. Just spend time reading and writing, as much as you can, and yes watching TV/movies as well. I had some friends in Afghanistan who learned to speak Hindi by watching Indian movies. A lot. I've known Americans who learned to speak Japanese by watching lots of Japanese movies.
Once you can read and write comfortably, then it is time to start trying to write more formally. That is when something like Strunk & White becomes helpful. Until then it will only confuse you.
You need to learn to drive the car first. Then you can learn how to build it. Just spend time reading and writing, as much as you can, and yes watching TV/movies as well. I had some friends in Afghanistan who learned to speak Hindi by watching Indian movies. A lot. I've known Americans who learned to speak Japanese by watching lots of Japanese movies.
Once you can read and write comfortably, then it is time to start trying to write more formally. That is when something like Strunk & White becomes helpful. Until then it will only confuse you.
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2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
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Complete: TESU BA Computer Science
2011-2013 completed all BSBA CIS requirements except 4 gen eds.
2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
TESU (11): English Comp, Business Law, Macroecon, Managerial Accounting, Strategic Mgmt (BSBA Capstone), C++, Data Structures, Calc I/II, Discrete Math, BA Capstone
Warning: BA Capstone is a thesis, mine was 72 pages about a cryptography topic
Wife pursuing Public Admin cert via CSU.
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