Final Assessment

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!