Blog 15

In this final blog posting of the semester, I'd like you to reflect on your progress throughout the course. What do you feel you have really improved on within the fifteen weeks? What do you still struggle with? Explain. (Consequently, the answers to these questions can pertain to your writing process, the way you conduct research, organizational skills, critical reading skills, or whatever else you can think of). Lastly, provide a suggestion or several suggestions for how the class could be conducted more efficiently in the future. Is there an assignment you think could be reworked? Would you have benefited from more conferences? Less conferences? Etc. etc.

I think that I definitely benefited from this class! In the beginning I had no idea how I would be able to write a 15 page paper but through the class I was well prepared. I have improved in a lot of different ways. My biggest improvement is learning how to research and prepare and pre-write for my writings. I can better prepare myself for large research projects and longer papers that need more content and support. Compared to the other 104 classes I think that this class was much better. I liked that we had one focus we worked with the entire semester. Even though it might sound boring, I really enjoyed having so much time to research and learn things more in detail. I also really liked that we had conferences. I don't think that we had too many or too little. I think the two conferences were helpful because as we got more into the semester we had more in-depth questions rather than in the beginning when we just got started and were not sure exactly what direction we were going in our research.