When we first started this course I didn’t think it was
going to be like a normal EH101 course, and I was right it wasn’t. I was afraid
we weren’t going to learn about the “normal” things a normal English class was
going to learn about. I think in this class I have learned more than I would of
learned in a “normal” English class.
The first major thing I learned in this course was to really
think about why the writer is writing this piece. All writers have a reason why
they choose to write a piece. We see this
in Stephen King’s On Writing.
Through this book we learn about Stephen King and his life as an early writer.
We go through his life as a child and into his later years. We learn about his
mother, and his drug addiction. All these things play a massive role in being
writer. In my post Inspiration
I talk about how every person has their own inspiration for writing.
Secondly, I learned how to use my newfound writing skills in
my other classes. I write about this in Essay
Erosion post. I learned how to organize my thoughts correctly, and take my
audience into consideration. I knew I wouldn’t be reading these essays I was
writing for my history class, but my professor would be reading them.
I also saw improvement in organizing my thoughts in each
blog post I did. Success is
one of my best-organized posts. I try to organize my paragraphs by age.
Starting when I was younger, and then leading into the present day. I also talk
about how important school is to me. Not just only for my grades, but also
being able to march. Passion is
where I talk about why school is so important to me. I feel like my thoughts
are organized pretty well in both of these blog posts.
Lastly, in Visualize
I learned how to incorporate others ideas into my writing and into my work. In
the DS106 course we had to take others ideas and do them ourselves. So it was
like being in a class but not exactly. This course was extremely helpful in
learning how to look at others ideas in relation to yours. I loved going
through and looking at other people’s projects.
The last things I want to discuss are the few things I still
have to work on in my writing. I have always known I have trouble with commas,
and proof reading my paper. I always go back and reread it, but I guess I don’t
know there are errors I have made because I was never taught about most of
them. Hopefully I can learn to really look into my writing and catch my errors
before I take my EH102 class. I feel like that is my biggest problem I have
with writing.
This course has helped me with more than just normal writing
techniques. It has taught me to look deeper into my writing and take other
people beside myself into consideration. I’ve learned to take my audience into
consideration, and I have learned to make my writing better through so many
other things!
