Retrospective Essay
The goal of this course was to teach us the proper way to write, to help us communicate more efficiently in the business world, and to teach how to join the “never-ending conversation”. This class has already accomplished that and much more. Not only have we covered almost all of the course goals, excluding synthesis which will be covered soon; we have been challenged to think about more advanced topics, to stay current in the world, and to discern information for ourselves, not to instantly believe what others say. While in class learning the teacher has kept the course away from the traditional lecture structure and has engaged with the class leading conversations and not preaching to the class.
Many of our conversations were about nonsense topics seemingly unrelated to anything, they still engaged us with one another and we still formed our own opinions our presented them. Most of our class periods were spent discussing the writing that we had been working on. These conversations helped us formulate new ideas, focus our topics, and take ownership of our writing. One of the hardest things for me to do is to focus on one topic; however we have done a few things to help with that.
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Having freedom to write allows me to write what I believe and how I feel, our free write allowed that to happen. We had written eight free writes, these were unstructured and we did not need to worry about conventions. This allowed me to put myself into my writing. I took ownership over my writing for the first time because I felt strongly about my writing. I was able to discover, explore, and analyze for myself and our free writes really helped. We not only wrote free writes, we also wrote an essay with many drafts which we shaped, revised, and edited in class to form a final polished
The goal of this course was to teach us the proper way to write, to help us communicate more efficiently in the business world, and to teach how to join the “never-ending conversation”. This class has already accomplished that and much more. Not only have we covered almost all of the course goals, excluding synthesis which will be covered soon; we have been challenged to think about more advanced topics, to stay current in the world, and to discern information for ourselves, not to instantly believe what others say. While in class learning the teacher has kept the course away from the traditional lecture structure and has engaged with the class leading conversations and not preaching to the class.
Many of our conversations were about nonsense topics seemingly unrelated to anything, they still engaged us with one another and we still formed our own opinions our presented them. Most of our class periods were spent discussing the writing that we had been working on. These conversations helped us formulate new ideas, focus our topics, and take ownership of our writing. One of the hardest things for me to do is to focus on one topic; however we have done a few things to help with that.
The second book …show more content…
Having freedom to write allows me to write what I believe and how I feel, our free write allowed that to happen. We had written eight free writes, these were unstructured and we did not need to worry about conventions. This allowed me to put myself into my writing. I took ownership over my writing for the first time because I felt strongly about my writing. I was able to discover, explore, and analyze for myself and our free writes really helped. We not only wrote free writes, we also wrote an essay with many drafts which we shaped, revised, and edited in class to form a final polished