Hello everyone! I hope your week has been awesome! Surely a bit stressful as we enter the last few weeks of the semester. I know I’ve had test’s left and right. Anyway I have been a bad blogger lately and didn’t publish one last week. So, my apologies for not partaking with everyone. But this week I’m kicking myself in the butt to get everything done. Ahhhhhh! So our blog prompt this week asks about improvement in our writing because of the immense amounts of reading and writing we’ve been conquering.
I must say this English class is different than any I have taken. Its unique because majority of my learning has come from you guys! My peers have helped explain certain ideas, debate thoughts without criticism, and help edit my papers. I’ve also gained some knowledge from reading blogs, doing PDR’s, and participating in group stuff. So thank you all so much for helping me out! Much appreciated, I’ve learned quite a bit!
I have also enjoyed the reading selection for this class, the novels are interesting and require critical thinking. Some have been a challenge to read and to keep up with but thus far it has enriched my brain with valuable information. It has been refreshing to rekindle the beauty of the language that lies beneath the text. The use of blogger has also helped to further explain some of the underlying language.
I have enjoyed everyone’s blogs, its been a great way to see a little more of each others personality through our thoughts and views. There has been a few of your blogs that made me think of another side of some of the reading that I wouldn’t have realized before. As I mentioned I think its great we are able to communicate through this medium with respect and interest in each others views. Even if I don’t agree with someone’s view its helped me gain perspective of a different stance.
Group interaction has allowed me to gain knowledge from my peers, it has also been a large portion of change in my writing. Between Varamin and Qom I have seen several different writing styles, and have gotten back much constructive criticism. The PDR process has been quite beneficial to me. Thanks Qom! Having everyone review your work helps catch little niches I wouldn’t have found. Plus I am a terrible…terrible copywriter. So the input is so useful, the comments help reinforce the strengths and weaknesses and helps easily translate in revision. Big help that’s for sure!
Though I entered certain facets of this class with a rocky start, I have been able to find the benefits and reason for what at first seemed like a hassle. The reading, writing, and peer interaction has strengthened my writing by reinforcing certain techniques and helping to rid my text from flaws or misunderstanding. It has been an intense run, and it is not over yet. So lets continue to work together to gain understanding of our hidden writing talents.
Well on that note I would like to add one more THANK YOU to all my peers for helping me out. Props to Qom for being patient and working with me on my essays and our projects. I sincerely mean it, this class would be sooooo much more difficult without you all. Have a happy weekend!
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Wasup Vanessa? I must agree this class is much different than any I have taken so far. It is more about how you think about things instead of telling you what to think and forcing you to memorize things. Expressing yourself is not welcomed in this class, it is required. You learn a lot about other peoples reasoning from the assignments we do in this class. As a psychology major it is interesting to see how people form their attitudes about certain subjects.
ReplyDeleteYes, most of the learning in this class has come from interaction with our peers. I like how almost every part of the class includes a classmates comment or input. It takes away the fear that everyone is a better writer than you. You get to see that they make the same mistakes and have the same problems with writing.
I am feeling the stress too, but there is only five more weeks, we can do this. We have not spent Friday and Sunday nights rushing to get assignments done for nothing. I think we all will look back and say this class had a lot of work but it was one of the most interesting classes we took at AVC.