The journey of learning is a never ending one, I like to look at it as metamorphoses, much like the life of a caterpillar: a process of constant evolution from being an egg to becoming a butterfly. From the moment one is born, he/she is exposed to a strange collection of sounds. It is not long before the brain deciphers these collections as a code or pattern used to convey a message. Babies communicate through their actions like crying, frowning and reaching out for toys. Before too long they realize that communication through actions is very ineffective and thus with a lot of effort they utter their first word. As soon as they utter this word, they enter a realm of multi-modal communication, this is when they crack out of their egg of non-verbal
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Language classes prior to college level, were based on improving our foundation on the subject, it focused on skills like grammar, essay writing and sentence composition. Unfortunately, in the process of developing this bedrock, my teacher had taken a very mechanical, single medium based approach. Our classes consisted of analyzing effective essays and trying to incorporate the strategies they used in our own works. However, like all college learning, this English class was more about real life application, and about becoming a better communicator in …show more content…
The genre of satire and the medium of a video allowed all of us to bring forth our creativity and address a problem in our society, making the process full of fun, but still one that allowed us to disseminate a message on an issue that is troubling us and the society as a whole. An unfortunate turn of events rendered our group short of a member halfway through the project. However, our group stepped up to putting in extra work, each one committing more time and taking more responsibilities. Ironically, one of the things our group lacked the most was proper communication. We eventually worked our problems out, but we should have taken more initiative, procrastinated less and worked together. Our group worked past these hardships and ended with a product that we were all proud of. Hopefully our mistakes and successes in group work will serve to help me work effectively with other people in the future.
In most of my projects I have had problems with embracing the WOVEN (written, oral, verbal, electronic and nonverbal) forms. Failing to abuse the advantages and cover the limitations of all modes by using multimodal communication. Though this course helped me discover the multimodal nature of language, I must still work on the successfully using these modes to my advantage. This is one goal that I will hope to achieve in my ENGL 1102 class next
Language classes prior to college level, were based on improving our foundation on the subject, it focused on skills like grammar, essay writing and sentence composition. Unfortunately, in the process of developing this bedrock, my teacher had taken a very mechanical, single medium based approach. Our classes consisted of analyzing effective essays and trying to incorporate the strategies they used in our own works. However, like all college learning, this English class was more about real life application, and about becoming a better communicator in …show more content…
The genre of satire and the medium of a video allowed all of us to bring forth our creativity and address a problem in our society, making the process full of fun, but still one that allowed us to disseminate a message on an issue that is troubling us and the society as a whole. An unfortunate turn of events rendered our group short of a member halfway through the project. However, our group stepped up to putting in extra work, each one committing more time and taking more responsibilities. Ironically, one of the things our group lacked the most was proper communication. We eventually worked our problems out, but we should have taken more initiative, procrastinated less and worked together. Our group worked past these hardships and ended with a product that we were all proud of. Hopefully our mistakes and successes in group work will serve to help me work effectively with other people in the future.
In most of my projects I have had problems with embracing the WOVEN (written, oral, verbal, electronic and nonverbal) forms. Failing to abuse the advantages and cover the limitations of all modes by using multimodal communication. Though this course helped me discover the multimodal nature of language, I must still work on the successfully using these modes to my advantage. This is one goal that I will hope to achieve in my ENGL 1102 class next