Letter to future student

Dear English student,

I promise this isn’t going to be a letter about how much this class is going to suck and you will have to cry yourself to sleep at night. That being said, I don’t mean that this class is going to be a piece of cake. You are genuinely going to have to try to get A’s on your assignments in this class. When you write your essays, you can’t just half ass it and expect to do well. I know that it hard to be personal with your writing, but it really does help if are. The material will come so much more naturally to you and the essays won’t seem that hard to write. Now for the textbook, yes, you will have to buy it and yes, you will have to read it. You have to write blogs on about all of them and he will know it if you’re BSing it. Sometimes it’s going to seem like busy work and you are reading them for no reason, but they do have a point. When you write your essays, they will help you understand what you’re writing about. Trust me. Now, about the professor, he’s actually pretty cool. He’s not one of those people who is super anal about what you do and he will be pretty lenient about assignments. If you are willing to be personal with him, he will be personal with you. Now, does this class sound that bad? Trust me, you will be fine.

                                                                                                                                                Sincerely,

                                                                                                                   An English student who survived

Overview of the semester

I have always had a positive relationship with writing and English in general. It was how I sort of relaxed and expressed my feelings. It has not changed that much over the semester but over the past couple of years, it has changed dramatically. I have learned how to write papers more efficiently and clearly without over simplifying it. This semester, the most helpful part of the class was the peer review when our papers were looked over by other students. To me, reading other people’s paper and offering advice helped me write my papers and gave me example as to how I should and should not write my papers. The least helpful part of the semester was all of the reading from the text book. Even though some of the articles were interesting, I felt like it was busy work and it didn’t really help me learn how to write my paper. However, I didn’t mind doing the blog post. They helped me reflect on what I read and helped me retain what I learned from the article. With Pecha Kucha, I have mixed reviews. On the positive side, it taught me how to present effectively and only giving the important or interesting information. I learned that less words and more pictures is better. However, I really didn’t like the time constraint for each slide. I felt like I was rushing through a lot of the information and I didn’t get to provide even better, more interesting information. Altogether, this semester has been fun. Mr. Conaway is a super chill professor and it made me feel more comfortable writing about personal experience in my essay. I really liked this class.