Class Reflection

Coming into this class I was nervous. When you hear someone talking about composition usually you think of a lot of hard, boring writing with some old English teacher. I was relieved to find out that the class wasn’t a grammar lecture everyday with and old monotone man who sees black and white. One of the cooler things that I liked about this class was the blog entries, I would never had thought I would be writing a blog and posting all of my writing for this course for everyone to see. It allows for a easy way to hand in my papers and to get insight back from my teacher. Another aspect of the course that I liked was how we had options of what we wanted to write about, I was exposed to things and issues that I was not previously aware of, for example how truly messed up North Korea was. The documentary about North Korea was great, but I really enjoyed watching collapse. I think I liked this specific documentary so much because I’m so intrigued with views that oppose of our government. Throughout the documentary, Michael Ruppert questions and challenges statements and actions taken by the government.

                Every week we had the choice to write about either a podcast or an assigned reading posted on moodle. The readings were great guidelines to follow from what we were learning in class, specifically, show don’t tell. Show don’t tell is the number one thing I’m going to take and use to improve my writing. Joan Didion is an author who greatly exemplifies show don’t tell and has an interesting style of writing. She does it in a way that is very extreme with so much detail I sometimes forgot what I was reading about with her pieces. The thing I disliked about the class the most was the fact that it was an 8am class. This made it tough to get to class on time and I feel like you could definitely tell the class was tiered. I think that there would have been better class participation and better discussions if it were a later class. I think the hardest assignment was the research paper. I am not great at writing research papers, and I hate doing work cited and bibliographies. I picked a subject that was tough to research as well because getting opinions and statements from president Obama that pertained to my research topic wasn’t exactly a walk in the park. Overall I would recommend this class with this teacher to someone who had to take composition next year.