English Language: Course Analysis

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Before this course, I did not know grammar well, and what I did know I did not fully understand. Yet, due to taking the course, I learned more about the structure of the English language, and can use grammar better than I did before. For instance, the first three major assignments were filled with missing comas, verb-tense misuses, and run-on sentences. Now, I may still make mistakes, but I know why I have made them. In other English courses, I had grammar homework and reading assignments that, often, seemed to be busy work, but with this course, I did not think that was the case. All the reading assignments were intriguing, and I thought critically because of the questions that were asked. An example of this comes from the last homework assignment where we read The Sports Taboo by Malcolm Gladwell. “Gladwell kept his eye on this runner because he thought that there was no way that this person would be able to continue their streak of winning. It connects to his main point because he cites the reason for his doubt as the ethnic stereotype related to runners. In his world, white people are not supposed to run fast, and he makes this idea clear when he states ‘It was as if I saw his whiteness as a degenerative disease, which would eventually claim and cripple him.’”. My writing process through-out this semester has been an interesting experience. Back in high school, I would make a casual outline and type a first draft. That first draft usually ends up being the final draft with a couple of changes and edits. This semester was different because I put the time and effort into creating essays, and even edited them completely to ensure that my work was the best it could be. Every essay I wrote took this level of dedication, but one of them stands out from the others. The visual analysis required so much of my time, and it required me editing it again and again. Yet, I was able to get it from an outline that had questions like “How does culture effect creativity?” to “Due to this idea one can argue that advertisements have a greater influence on modern culture than famous works of art because the ads are supposed to …show more content…
Every time a due date would come up for a major assignment, we took time to review each other’s work. I do not remember much from these various encounters, but I do remember receiving helpful comments. Granted, I may have felt upset by some of the things said, but I knew that the criticism I had received was right, and I wanted to do better because of the evaluations. This was unusually for me because before this course, I would hardly listen to others since I thought I was always right. Yet, that changed because I wanted to improve my writing, and to do that I had to listen to other people’s ideas. Also, you would walk around the room and check our work during class. That was how I was able to come up with my thesis statement for the visual analysis. Without you checking on the class’ progress, and seeing that I had made none, I would probably still be working on the visual analysis. Instead, you talked me through my image and the argument I wanted to make, which lead to an interesting

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