Final Learning Blog
With the semester over it is time to
reflect on all the work we have done over the last several months. I must say
that this class has been vastly different than any other english class I have
ever taken. I actually can say that I enjoyed this class more than any other
english class in recent history. There was some roadblocks on the way but all
in all it was definitley a good learning expirience.
Right off the bat our class was
assigned to individually create a blog. I myself being technically unsavy had a
little bit of trouble with this. In most other english classes I have taken the
most technology used would be Microsoft Word. After being open to the idea and
using the blog for a couple weeks I really enjoyed it. The class blogg made it
much easier for me to communicate with my classmates and bounce ideas off of
eachother. One of my other major flaws throughout my educational career has
been my organization. The blogg allowed me to view all my past assignments, and
keep them organzied. This helped a lot because I do have a tendencie to
misplace my class materials.
After getting situated with the new
technology, it was time for our first assignment. We were assigned to write a
research article. I wrote my article on student loans, I felt this was a good
topic to research being a student myself and dealing with the issue currently.
I believe the on campus interviews provided really insightful information for
all my readers. One of the most interesting assignments that we were required
to do was the juxtaposition piece. This was a group project. After
participating in athletics, clubs, etc I have worked in groups my whole life.
Put I had no clue what a juxtaposition was, the whole idea of simply changing
the format of which a piece of writng is deliverd was intriguing to me.
“ I
felt that this assignment really opened my mind to different pieces of writing
and the different formats that information is tranfered as.”
I must say that the last assignment
we had gave me the most trouble. I have written numerous of articles in my
academic career but none like this. The idea of me writing an article on the
process of creating a piece of literature was difficult to me for some reason.
I had to make multiple rough drafts just to be in a position to write my final
draft. I think after brainstorming in my conference it made it much simpler for
me to do. I ended up doing my article on something that I was around for my
whole life and hold a strong interest for, which always makes writing easier.
“ The
whole idea behind this assignment really gave me a greater understanding of
literature in general, I was always subjected to thinking literature to be
strictly academic. After completing the assignment I learned that literature is
all around us, and each form of writing has several aspects to creating it”.
After completing this course I can
honestly say that I stopped focusing so much on grammar, and formal writing
errors and really began to understand literature. The whole k-12 basis behind
english really sets up our basic understand for english, allows us to communicate
with others over text and not be completely illiterate. After this course I can
say that my appreciation for the Englihs language is at a new level.
