Greenhouse Seminar Reflection

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Greenhouse seminar has helped me to adjust to the college atmosphere. The community was warm, welcoming and just what I needed to strengthen my writing skills for the duration of college. Through this term, I have: conducted experiments, analyzed ideas, written essays, reflected, read articles, peer-edited essays, proposed ideas, conducted interviews and volunteered. With all of these different exercises, I have made significant process in my writing process. Throughout this class I have learned how to: communicate effectively using writing, speech, and images, analyze ideas holistically, logically and creatively, access and effectively use information resources and demonstrate life skills that are necessary for proactive participation in collaborative environments, sustainability leadership, and civic engagement. I have learned how to communicate effectively through writing, speech and images. An example would be the Road to Success essay. The Road to Success map was an image, that had a collection of stops to analyze and write about. I think I made significant progress on communicating effectively in the Road to Success essay; the …show more content…
I learned from Strands A-Communication goals, B-Thinking goals, and C- Information literacy. I strengthened my communication, thinking and information literacy capability. This class has shown me the importance of cooperation with others, and how to effectively use information. Peer editing was an incredibly useful tool, that I had never utilized like I did in this class. I was able to learn through multiple different exercises, which expanded my horizons. The field work, such as the mulching study provided additional learning techniques to emphasize the objectives. This class taught me how to get into finite detail in my writing. I am thankful that I chose to take Greenhouse because I have never learned so much from a

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