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The skills I have learned in this class have been so many I am not sure where to even begin, I feel like my writing has improved over this semester in so many different ways. I was not sure in the beginning what was expected when we were being instructed to analyze the reading with little summary. I have always done summary so it was hard not to include summary. I am not sure how this will affect my future career, but it has helped with my other classes in the essays they have asked for, because I have given analysis instead of summary in my writing. The material we read, at first I thought “wow this is crazy stuff.” After research and digging deeper into the meaning of it I found the humor in it. I did enjoy “White Noise” best; it had drama, love and humor in it. I feel I have met the learning outcomes for the class by using organizational strategies; I would do an outline of what I wanted in my papers before I wrote them trying to get prepared for what I wanted to write in the paper. I feel that I did accomplish most of the learning outcomes in one way or another. Using the library to integrate information into the written papers, apply sentence structures, selecting and applying a voice. I think my writing process has changed because I read then re-read a few times. Then submit my paper to the online tutor, after that, I would do more revisions before submitting it. The challenges in this class have been writing a paper without using the World Wide Web. I thought on this last essay we were allowed to and I got marked down because apparently we were not. Overcoming this challenge was obviously difficult because I ended up using the internet to help me get through the final essay. I found this class to be a big challenge and had to seriously push myself to complete it. I thought many times about just dropping out of it, I am glad to be at the end. Learning how to do the blogger has been the most interesting part for me and I thought it was going to be the hardest.
The link on the words under the picture Yavapai College: Library is to the library.
I can see that we're in the same boat as far as the reading goes. At the beginning of this class, I could hardly fathom what it was that the authors were saying, but as I went back to further understand what exactly it was that I was reading about it gradually came to me.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the texts were really strange to me - difficult to figure out - thats probably why I also had a difficult time writing essays in this class. You're right - summary is difficult to get away from. Have a Great Summer!
ReplyDeleteThe texts were definitely not anything I could have imagined, however I did enjoy them for the most part. I thought about dropping the class several times out of frustration, but very glad I didn't, and here we are...at the end. I was really challenged by having to analyze and not summarize. I wish you best in the future!
ReplyDeleteHey Toni, I can agree, I normally focused on summary throughout my writing assignments so it was very different to focus on an argument. It seems like you have improved your writing an accomplished your goals. I am sure you did just fine. I wish you the best!
ReplyDeleteI was also influenced a lot by being introduced to the analyzing method. I found that by doing so my works were more accurate and sounded a lot more sophisticated. The readings also influenced me in a way that I feel that my reading also improved. I feel that now I am able to look deeper into the context of a story and identify the deeper meanings of it.
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