I am beginning this blog for my junior composition English course, but plan on keeping up with it after. But before I get into that, let me introduce myself to you all. My name is Emily Souders. I am a twenty-year-old junior at Ohio University from Cincinnati Ohio. I am a middle childhood education major, specializing in Social Studies and English. I love writing and it has always been something that I have excelled in. My previous experience with English 151 was a pretty good one. I got an A in the class and did very well on all my assignments, and even got a letter to the editor published in the Athens Post. Just because I did well doesn’t mean it wasn’t a bit challenging. It was definitely a little difficult. The most rewarding thing I got from taking that course was the homework assignments. They were small fun prompts that we got to write daily. The least rewarding thing about English 151 would be the group Cion project we did. I didn’t enjoy working with a group regarding a novel because there were to many different opinions involved. The class could have been more effective if the teacher would have explained rhetoric and what he expected a bit more. Many of the students were confused because it was a class of all freshmen during our fall quarter.
I am excited to begin another English class. I think the course design looks like it will be challenging but also interesting. It differs from English 151 because it seems as though we will be integrating a lot of technology into the course then we did in English 151. I am apprehensive about the understanding of rhetoric just because it’s been two years since I’ve discussed it. I am excited because I love writing and English. I hope to enhance my abilities and skills as a writer.
Emily,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had a positive experience with 151; it tells me that we have a good composition program set up here at OU, especially for motivated students like yourself. I'm wondering if the class was focused more on literature than on rhetoric. That would explain why you feel apprehensive about the rhetoric component in 308j. Do you think a review of traditional rhetoric/rhetorical analysis would be helpful in this class? Think about it.