Final Blog

            As unit one is coming to an end I feel that I am in the full swing of things in our English 101 class. At first I was unorganized, and disoriented to the foreign classroom criteria and methods.  I struggled with the learning blogs and wasn’t use to the sort of freedom in the writing process that you encouraged. Now we were still obligated to create rubrics outlining the main ideas and aspects of our articles. This was also a new technique to writing that I was unfamiliar with. After creating the rubric I felt that it was highly beneficial to my organization and focus of my articles final outcome. I created the rubric by collecting information from numerous online sources either pertaining directly to topic or other issues that were related to my main topic. Another aspect of class that I felt really benefited my writing process was the in class peer evaluation sessions. This past Monday, I received a lot of positive feedback from my peer evaluation group members. Not only did I feel that the information I received was helpful, but also my evaluation of the groupmemebers articles helped better my final product of my article. Like I stated earlier many of my past English teachers taught with very strict and concrete teaching methods and format. I feel that in my current course grammar and format are much less emphasized in the writing process. So far I have felt that since I am not harboring as much focus on grammar and structure that I have been writing more fluently and frequently as ever in my scholastic career. I know this sounds farfetched but I feel that the experiences I have learned so far in class can be used in everyday life. Students always complain about how they will never use class material in everyday life. Just in the short amount of time that I have been enrolled in this class I have learned how to use a learning blog and interact within the blog community. I have functioned in peer groups feeding off each other’s ideas and criticism. I felt that the skills practiced in peer editing groups could better prepare me for the corporate world. So in conclusion to unit 1, I have enjoyed the new approaches I have used  thus far and feel I have consumed  plenty of useful information  thus far. Not only scholastically but also information that can be used in everyday life.