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.