English 2010
Course Description & Objectives:
English 2010 focuses on three related aspects of rhetoric and composition: public writing, writing from sources, and multimedia composition. In this course, we'll explore a number of different genres of writing common in academic contexts and in public writing situations. Through research, you'll inform yourself about ongoing, public issues. You become an active participant in these public conversations through writing and designing a range of texts.
Reflection
Essay
When the clock hit midnight on registration, I was ready. I knew that English 2010 was a high demanding class, and if I wanted to get into it, I needed to register as soon as possible. I had taken a English class a year and half previous from it and had a pretty good idea of what the class would be like. I figured there would be endless nights of paper writing, and lines of poems and writers to memorize or read. I was not too excited for this. I was simply taking the credit, because it was required.
My thought process of this changed throughout the semester. In fact, I began to see how much I liked to write. I also got various comments in peer editing discussions of how they loved my writing. We wrote three main essays, about one topic. These are the essays that are linked below. I picked a topic about health, because that is what I am most passionate about. It was on the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act that has been affecting America for the past 3 years. Although the three essays were on the same topic, they all have multiple genres, strategies and style types. Before doing this, I had no idea you could write so differently and so much on just one topic. The three different types that I chose were an evaluation, profile, and an position argument. On all these papers I had to appropriately cite my sources. This was a challenge for me but after doing the citation process for three papers, I now feel more familiar with it.
I was right about one assumption of this class and that was endless nights of writing papers. However, I did not think I would learn and enjoy from it as much as I did. Each process, each paper went through took time. First, I would gather my ideas and do an outline. Second, I would write a draft. Third, I would bring it into class where we would do a workshop, and students would give feedback to our papers. Fourth, I would revise and make the final document. I enjoyed this process, and found progress in each paper when I become more familiar with each step. If I had to say one struggle I had with all three papers, I would say that it was trying to write the genre or type correctly. I can sometimes be an fairly opinionated person and the first two papers we wrote (profile, and evaluation) were hard because I could not state my opinion. The last paper, we wrote was the position argument and it was the easiest out of the three papers below. This was because I could state my opinion, and it was easier for me to write.
Overall, this class far exceeded my expectations. I also learned and grew in many areas of writing and researching. I now feel more prepared to write a good essay in any of my other classes in the near future. I hope you will read and enjoy the papers I have posted below. They are what I have worked and learned so much on.
Links to three papers I have written and researched this semester:
http://milyssalaw.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!
