blog post # 7

1. What skills have you learned in this class and how might you apply them to writing in your career or future college courses?

This class was very interesting and very informative to me. For one I had only done a few other online classes. But I have never been in a class where I had to have a blog page. By having the blog page really helped me be more computer oriented because before this class all that I ever did on the computer was pretty much homework related things. Oh ya and I would use goggle map often. So let’s just say I do not use my computer very often. After this class I will probably go back to my old ways but it is nice to say that I am able to set up a blog page. LOL!

2. How have the readings in the class affected you?

            Before I had signed up for this English class I have never had any interest in reading. Ya I read something’s here in there when I had to for school but I never read a book…Honestly Speaking. I feel as if I would rather be outside being active than sitting down reading a book, but that it just me. When I tell people that I have never read a book have the time they do not believe me and the other half of the time they say” you just haven’t found a good book or the right book.”When I started reading “The things They Carried” I really got into the book. Maybe because I like history and there was a lot of history in the book or simply I just thought that it was a good book. I hear people say all the time when I read a book that I like I have a hard time putting it down well I guess that I can agree with them now. Because when I was reading I noticed that I wanted to just keep reading onto the next story. It was kind of a joy to read something that was interesting to me.

3. How have you met the learning outcomes for the class (which can be found on the syllabus)?

I feel that the biggest and hardest learning outcome that I can relate to is number 10 Interpret and Analyze. Writing does not come easy for me so when I write I have a habit that most people do which is, I summarize more than analyze. I probably have to work harder at this than most people. I have to really take my time and reread and rewrite my papers a lot more than I would have before I was in this class. By writing this way really makes me think of what I will be writing about and makes me be very cautious on what I am writing on and how I write it. For instance I really have to work hard and not put my personal opinion or summarize in my papers.

4. How has your writing or your writing process changed?

I feel that my writing style has changed dramatically. If I am not careful though I notice some of my bad habits come back into my papers. So I have to really pay attention and proof read often. I have never had to analysis when I am writing let alone I had never really known what that was.  But after this class I have a good interpretation of what analysis really is.

5. What were your challenges in the class?  How were you able to overcome them?

The biggest challenge that I had in this English 102 class was the writing portion. I had a hard time with having to analyze and not summarize. Summarizing was easy for me. But because we had had a few assignment that we had to do strictly on analysis I feel that I am better at writing than I was when I had first started. Slowly but surely I am defiantly getting better at writing.