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.