The English 101 course online has consisted of much writing. I have much experience writing and organizing my thoughts from my personal life as a passion and at my high school, we were forced to write research paper after research paper and that really prepared me for the rest of my school career. As far as this course is concerned I believe I have been refreshed a lot of my research practices from high school and made them sharper as well as increased my talents in writing. The places I believe I have excelled due to this course would be: transition from relaxed online social writing to formal writing, respecting the thoughts and opinions of my readers, and quick researching techniques.
The hardest transition in writing is remembering the cause. When I am just writing to my friends on Facebook or Twitter my grammar and spelling is severely compromised to say the least. When I am writing for a class or job or something of significance, I have to make the switch in my mind to be more conscious of the way I am writing. The blog post assignments have helped to bridge the gap. It isn't always necessary to use bad grammar when talking in a social forum, intelligence is attractive to others and to myself. The blog assignments have forced me to be personable and understandable, but not overly ignorant in the way I write. That is a feature that is also important in scholarly writing.
When behind a computer, it is easy to get overly opinionated and unconcerned with how my words may impose on someone else's beliefs. I have witnessed situations where others have been very narrow minded about their point of views and disrespectful towards the readers and it has made me more careful in my own writing. There is a way to speak your mind without putting other's opinions and beliefs down in the process. I have become more aware of my surroundings and I think that will make what I say more widely viewed and respected.
As I previously stated, I had to do a lot of work as far as writing at my high school. They forced us to know how to write a good research paper in a timely fashion with steps and practice and etcetera. I wasn't able to get into an English class fresh out of high school, into college, therefore when I entered this class I was a little "rusty" on my techniques. Having to write so many papers and different types of papers at that has forced me back into practice and for that I am grateful because writing is a very important form of communication.
In conclusion, I am grateful for all that this class has taught me. I am now a better writer than ever and that is powerful.
I completely understand what it is you are talking about when it comes to the use of language in our assignments. Whether it would be our analysis papers, the research paper, reading discussions, and our blogs each one had its own type language available for use. I feel that with our blogs and our responses that it is definitely a good transition from friend chat, texting, facebook and so forth to our more serious assignment of research and analysis papers. The main thing about blogs that I enjoyed was the feeling of writing in a journal. I never truly understood why people wrote in journals or blogs, but I feel that I do now. It is a way to express yourself whether it be in a personal fashion, or in sociable forum. I have come to enjoy blogs quite well.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with you that people have been closed minded when reading others blogs. I have tried to keep an open mind. Yes, we do have our own thoughts and opinions but there are good and bad ways to express them. I try my best to make sure that my responses don’t walk over people’s blogs. I do hope i haven’t done that with you blogs Karianne. I believe with the most part I have enjoyed all of what you have written. I believe there have been some instances in which I haven’t fully agreed with you but I think I have responded with the up most respect.