My experience in COMM 2367 this semester was an important one for not only my educational career but for my life after the classroom. It helped me reconnect with the task of group work, helped me overcome my fear of public speaking, and much more that I will be discussing through this reflection paper.
This communication class did not only help me complete a second writing course but also helped me learn how to use persuasion tactics in a writing and a speaking fashion. I have learned that persuasion is used in multiple different forms. This class provided many ways of persuading someone. For example, using the pathos route to make the audience feel bad and emotional toward the topic will help persuade the person in a sad and emotional way. …show more content…
Seeing my peers speak about topics that most of them had a great deal of personal connection to was a great experience for me. There are far more problems in the state of Ohio and our region than I was aware of. From people in poverty, to human trafficking, to animals being beaten and brutally killed. All of these problems have non-profit organizations and people within them dedicating their time and money to ending those problems, which I find to be remarkable and heartwarming. The town hall meeting speech that had the biggest impact on me was the one regarding addiction. One speaker related to her brother being an addict and had my heart in my stomach the entire time she was speaking. I thought she, and the group as whole, did a great job addressing the different forms of addiction. Addiction is also a very scary thing and is relatively easy to get people to feel vulnerable about when speaking of. But with that being said, it does not make it easy to put a sold group project together. Working in a group is a difficult task and mainly because you have to trust your group members that they are going to do their job within the group and do it correctly and effectively. It can be difficult putting that much trust in a person especially with the way students are about grades these days and the pressure we all receive to maintain them. This was different then other classes because we …show more content…
It helped me overcome fears, gave me a good sense of education on the topic of persuasion, and also taught me (through THMS) that my classmates are not always who they look to
This communication class did not only help me complete a second writing course but also helped me learn how to use persuasion tactics in a writing and a speaking fashion. I have learned that persuasion is used in multiple different forms. This class provided many ways of persuading someone. For example, using the pathos route to make the audience feel bad and emotional toward the topic will help persuade the person in a sad and emotional way. …show more content…
Seeing my peers speak about topics that most of them had a great deal of personal connection to was a great experience for me. There are far more problems in the state of Ohio and our region than I was aware of. From people in poverty, to human trafficking, to animals being beaten and brutally killed. All of these problems have non-profit organizations and people within them dedicating their time and money to ending those problems, which I find to be remarkable and heartwarming. The town hall meeting speech that had the biggest impact on me was the one regarding addiction. One speaker related to her brother being an addict and had my heart in my stomach the entire time she was speaking. I thought she, and the group as whole, did a great job addressing the different forms of addiction. Addiction is also a very scary thing and is relatively easy to get people to feel vulnerable about when speaking of. But with that being said, it does not make it easy to put a sold group project together. Working in a group is a difficult task and mainly because you have to trust your group members that they are going to do their job within the group and do it correctly and effectively. It can be difficult putting that much trust in a person especially with the way students are about grades these days and the pressure we all receive to maintain them. This was different then other classes because we …show more content…
It helped me overcome fears, gave me a good sense of education on the topic of persuasion, and also taught me (through THMS) that my classmates are not always who they look to