Professor
Longhany's Eglish- ENC 1101 class has taught me a variety of important things.
Being that i am a freshman, i had just come from my four years in high school.
High school had a very different way of teaching their students how to write
than from what i had experienced in this class. The writing i had to complete
previously was very restrained, and I'm some sense very "cookie
cutter". Mainly, it would be the typical five paragraph essay that
included an introduction, conclusion, and thesis statement. I was not given the
opportunity very often to really write about how i felt, topics i enjoyed, and
my opinions on important things. In this class, we would be given peer reviews,
which demonstrated our ability to give advice to others on what we thought about
their pieces of work and what we thought they could do to improve it. Not only
did those tasks help the other person, but it also helped me become more aware
of certain things throughout my writing. For example, an excellent student in
my class Megan Gannon, would give very thorough and helpful advice on my pieces
of work, which actually showed me certain revisions i could do to improve my
writing in general. I do genuinely feel that this class has really given me the
chance to start to learn how to express my thoughts into writing and give me a
sense of expression. At the beginning of this class, it was not easy for me to
write reflectively and creatively when the class was given the task to. For
example, as a class we were given instruction to write reflectively about our
experiences with reading and writing as we moved through different stages of
our life on our weekly discussion board online. In particular, that assignment
was very difficult for me to conduct. But, as the semester went on i got
more into the hang of really thinking and transferring my mind to paper.
Looking back on how much the writing had changed from high school to college, i
think that the type of writing i recently became presented to is very
beneficial for the future. As my college career and even life progresses, i
will be given the task of being interviewed for jobs, writing resumes, and
writing papers that will need justification of what i am feeling. I thank
Professor Longhany for introducing me to this style of writing for it will
really help and benefit me in the future.
Outcome
2:
Thinking
back on past work and assignments i have completed, it is easy to see the
changes and improvements in my writing as a whole. This semester i was given
many opportunities to write using rhetorical analysis. Rhetoric is how a writer
uses words to influence an audience. I learned that it is very important to
write to who you think or know your audience is. Writing using specific words
and language can target a certain audience and help the readers connect to your
writing. Rhetorical analysis breaks a work of non-fiction into parts and then
comes to explain how the parts then work together, creating a certain effect. I
do believe i accomplished the requirements of Outcome 2, which really became
known as i wrote my Literacy Narrative. In my literacy narrative i was able to
write about something personal and something that really reflected on me as a
person. I made sure to connect my writing in some ways to my audience and use
concrete examples of my reading and writing experiences growing up.
Outcome
3:
I
accomplished the requirements of Outcome 3, demonstrating an understanding that
there are different purposes for and perspectives from which to read different
kinds of texts. Throughout the entire semester, Professor Longhany would give
the class a reading every week that was located in our "Writing about
writing" book. Each week, the class was given about 10-15 pages on
specific topics and terms that would relate to our upcoming work and discussion
in class. A topic that was assigned to read and discussed in class was
Exigence. "The need or reason for a given action or communication".
The term really shows that communication does exist for a reason. I demonstrated an understanding of concepts, arguments, and terminology from college-level texts being discussed, which i showed when the class was instructed to watch TED talks and be able to recognize and discuss them. I learned about many terms in this class and how to identify them, which will be very beneficial for my future writing.
Outcome 4:
I believe i have accomplished the requirements of Outcome four, demonstrating an awareness of the relationship between discourse conventions, lexis, genres, and their related communities. I accomplished this by getting to know the community of One Direction, known as the "directioners". The class was given the task of writing an ethnography on a discourse community of our choice. Throughout my ethnography, i talked about the specifics of the fan base, their connection, and their views on the boy band. I was also given the privilege to interview people who believed that they were part of the One Direction community, the directioners. I analyzed, observed, and described this community from the outside and even got to take a peak from the inside. In my ethnography, i stated that "I decided to my ethnography on this fan base because I found it very interesting and heart warming to see people from all different backgrounds and places in the world coming together with a common purpose and love for something". Doing this ethnography has really opened my eyes and shown me concrete examples on how the world unites and comes together. I made sure to use proper MLA formatting with different subtitles to break up different points, and even included a works cited page.
Outcome 4:
I believe i have accomplished the requirements of Outcome four, demonstrating an awareness of the relationship between discourse conventions, lexis, genres, and their related communities. I accomplished this by getting to know the community of One Direction, known as the "directioners". The class was given the task of writing an ethnography on a discourse community of our choice. Throughout my ethnography, i talked about the specifics of the fan base, their connection, and their views on the boy band. I was also given the privilege to interview people who believed that they were part of the One Direction community, the directioners. I analyzed, observed, and described this community from the outside and even got to take a peak from the inside. In my ethnography, i stated that "I decided to my ethnography on this fan base because I found it very interesting and heart warming to see people from all different backgrounds and places in the world coming together with a common purpose and love for something". Doing this ethnography has really opened my eyes and shown me concrete examples on how the world unites and comes together. I made sure to use proper MLA formatting with different subtitles to break up different points, and even included a works cited page.
