Final Blog Question 3

I think the most difficult thing for me to grasp in this course would be the organization of sentence structure in an argument. I unfortunately was one of those children who lost out on learning real grammar based on the fact that spell check was readily available. Since I never really understood grammar principals its difficult for me to pick our more complex sections of an argument. I remember the nouns, verbs, etc but putting it into practice of setting up and dissecting arguments gets muddled for me. Other then that I would say that the wrap up blog that was posted for our class was really helpful for me. It gave me things out of the chapter that were especially important in a summarized version. It pointed out things to me that I needed to focus on more and what our professor wanted us to study from the chapter. Overall I was able to keep up and understand most of everything we went over in this course, which is great!

Final Blog Question 2

As a whole, I really did enjoy this class. However, the down side of the course was the group projects. Every project I was put in a position of others procrastinating and not pulling their own weight. I really disliked how my grade was affected negatively multiple times even though I did my own part of the project, got full participation points, and still the project as a whole negatively affected my grade. It is disappointing that I had to over compensate for others lack of preparation. There is not a great way to improve this issue with group projects, as there is always a “social loafer” in a group, it is just upsetting that the people that do the work get punished. To be more positive, I did really enjoy most aspects of this course. I would say that my favorite part was how organized it was. There was no question what was due, when it was due, and what the requirements were. The due dates always were clear and set up far in advance, and I felt that the course was set up for the students to prepare themselves and to be ready for the week’s work. 

Final Blog Question 1

Since this is my second communications class I have taken, I had somewhat of an idea what we would be discussing in this class. Now, at the end of the course, I am really impressed how much of the information stuck! I think the parts of the course that really stayed with me the most would be about communication styles whether it be cultural differences or sarcasm, euphemisms, dysphemisms, and also the section about lying. I think that these spiked my interest because of how often we run into cases of people using these, or using them ourselves. More basic was the chapters about reasoning and evidence. This was especially helpful as it really helped my analyze my writing during the projects. Hopefully I can harness these teachings and include my new knowledge in my future essays and courses. All in all, I believe that this course really included a lot of realistic knowledge that we can all use in our personal and professional lives.