I took ENGL 165 Writing and Rhetoric to complete the Writing and Rhetoric Foundation in the Spring semester in my Freshman year. I have always liked English, and I also enjoyed this english class. This was a relatively small class, so there were a lot of chances for everyone to be involved in the discussion without being talked over while also limiting domination by one or two people. The professor also did a great job in explaining all the material and getting all the class involved in learning and debating with other students. I really enjoy the classes where there aren’t many people so it can be more involved and personal, and the students (I) have more of a chance to state my opinion and to have it debated/discussed back.
A good example from the class in which we needed to use all of what was used in class was the final large paper which incorporated all the other smaller papers we had done before throughout the semester. Not only did we have to use what we learned in class, but it was also an assignment which used one assignment to help write another, incorporating four different assignments into a final one. There were a lot of peer reviews used in this class, especially for this paper, that I don’t have much prior experience doing. I learned a lot of valuable lessons from this class, like how helpful peer reviews can be to get a new perspective on my paper, as well as breaking up the workload of a big paper among many different weeks so it is not all due at once. I have a bad habit of waiting until the last minute to do things I actually want to do, and it is even worse if I don’t have much motivation to do something. For this paper, it was required that we divide the workload among many different weeks and submissions, which helped me greatly to stop procrastinating and actually do better work than I would otherwise, and I hope to continue this practice for my future classes.
Academic Article; Ariel Birkholz; 22 April 2020. Examining the structure, language, and reference of writing across different fields/disciplines in college using examples from three different fields in three different disciplines.