week 13 blog

I think that the way that I write my essays has changed more from high school to now, than it has just through this semester. I used to write my papers about just random stuff that really wasn’t important to me in any way, shape, or form, but now I’ve been putting a little more thought into my writing, and I have been writing more about topics that relate to me. I find this more and more true as the semester goes on. One of the things that I thought was the most beneficial, or the thing that I liked the most about the class, is that we got to choose our topics based on very lose criteria so we could really write about pretty much anything. Also we didn’t have to follow any specific writing style, we could write our papers the way that we liked to write them and we didn’t have to try and reword everything so it sounded like you wrote it. One of the things that I didn’t like so much was the fact that the deadlines seemed to come up pretty fast, and sometimes it was difficult being able to get everything done on time since I am also taking six other classes.

week 12 blog

In my econ class that I am taking, we are required to do group projects periodically. There are supposed to be five to six people in each group and my group had three people. This made the workload for each person in my group quite a bit more than what it was intended to be. Also, one of my two group members had a tendency of showing up to class once a week, if that. This made even more work for me and my other group member which resulted in more of a negative experience than a positive one. My partner and I decided to merge with another group in the class who was having a similar problem; thinking our workload would decrease, I then realized that I was the only one out of four people who even had a slight understanding of how economics actually worked. When working with a group I am always concerned about whether or not the other people are going to put forth as much effort as me. There are benefits of working with other people in the sense that it does divide up the workload so one person is not responsible for everything. Other group members can also bring in different viewpoints and perspectives that one person alone may not have thought of.

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week 11 blog

I don’t know that my writing process has changed a whole lot since I have started this course, I guess one thing that has kind of changed though is the fact that I don’t seem to procrastinate quite as much as I used to. I feel like the essay that gave me the most trouble out of the three that we have written for this class was the “inventing arguments” essay, due to the fact that it has very few guidelines. Often times when I’m writing it helps me to have some sort of guidelines or structure for the different paragraphs. I think the rhetorical analysis essay was fairly easy for me, due to the fact that you had laid out examples of what you would like to see in it structurally and how it should be put together. If I am trying to get a point across to someone who is too stubborn to hear me out, I prefer to write down what I would like to say. The reason I like doing this is because they have to listen to all of my points when reading, as opposed to a verbal debate where they can try to catch me in a contradiction, say whatever they were wanting to say, while making me forget what I was going to say. Right now writing plays a large role in my life because I am in college and most of my assignments are written. In my future I feel that it will also play a considerable role since in most work environments there is a lot of paper work and things of that nature that always need to be done.