End of the Year Blog

This course has made me re-evaluate the way I look at writing. It has been a long time since I have written many of the types of papers that we discussed in class and going over the basics is very helpful in my writing career. As we explored new topics, the foundations that we started with allowed us to improve over time and adapt them to each paper. The rhetorical analysis strategies we learned in class can be applied to almost every style of writing and type of paper we covered in class. Applying the essay models to our papers was a good challenge to our writing, with my favorite being the dinner conversation. My personal style of writing is very formal and conversational so it was a good way for me to express my style in an essay that I enjoyed writing (who says that anymore?). Having major assignments be your biggest grade in a course can be very daunting but having the grade breakdown split between rough drafts, final drafts, and other parts to the assignment made it easier to manage. Peer review was used for every paper we wrote and it was fairly helpful in my opinion. Some people feel more comfortable talking to their peers about problems they face or asking for tips, versus going to teacher at say, office hours which can be a hit or miss. The blog assignments were fairly simple but a fun homework to help reinforce the lessons being taught in class. Some of the readings were long and dry but for the most part they were helpful. A few of the blog assignments were even paragraphs that went towards papers that we wrote which force you to stay on top of your assignments. The lessons taught in class seemed rather redundant, because often times we already knew what the teacher was talking about. There could be an improvement in the material taught in the daily lessons.