E ven though the course is now open, it is no surprise that you may still be wondering what you got yourself into by signing up for English 2600: Modes of Self-Narrative. Because of the OU catalog requirements regarding length, I was limited in how many words I could choose for the course title, so I get how the purpose, content, and nature of the class is somewhat vague in nature if you decided to take the course based on title only. Now that I have space to work with, I can explain a bit better what we will do this semester. In the simplest words possible, we will be exploring and comparing three genres of self-narrative (journals/diary, memoir, and personal narrative) to discover what happens when we try to transform these forms to an online platform, such a blog; in other words, what happens to traditional writing aspects when we write online? To investigate further, we will read traditional texts representative of the genres and then attempt to write our own entries to test ...