Farewell

Farewell

Well here I go for my final blog. This week has been interesting. My car windshield had three big rocks through it. When I came home to it, I was in a state of shock. Obviously I made somebody mad. So this week has been a little crazy for me. As we reach this point in the class it is bittersweet. I am looking forward to the break but I will miss the experience.  Wow I cannot believe it is over. Things still have not changed. I did not read the due date for this assignment and I automatically assumed that it was still due Friday. You would think that by now I would know to read through everything thoroughly. I have been told so many times; read everything all the way do not just skip stuff. Well, apparently I still do not understand. So I apologize for this being late. It kind of sucks that my final blog has to be late. I can't even turn in my final blog on time. Well I hope to keep on blogging. I feel that it is a way for me to practice my writing skills. I think that once out of this class I will use it for personal purposes and see how it goes. I encourage you all to do the same. I think that you will enjoy the benefits that blogging has for you. I think for me that blogging was my favorite part of the class. I enjoyed it. I did not think that I would but I did. I also enjoyed getting to know my classmates. Since we were unable to meet face to face in a class setting, I felt that the blogs gave us the means to get to know each other just a little bit more. I felt like I was able to connect with some people through these blogs. I am also grateful that I do not have to retake this class. I passed, though I guess it is not over. So as I bid say my goodbyes I would like everyone to know that I truly did enjoy this class and it really was great getting to know some of you. I would also like to give a special thank you to my group. Thank you for all the time and effort you put out into revising my essays. It was extremely helpful. So to my fellow classmates Goodbye! Enjoy your holidays! Be safe! And have a wonderful break. Maybe I will actually be able to meet some of you face to face in other classes is future semesters. Cue cheesy quote, "The end is really only the beginning." I feel that even though this is the end of the class that it is the beginning of being able to use the knowledge that we have gained from this class. We now can go out and use this knowledge and be intelligent people with well built language skills. So Goodbye and use your skills wisely.

What? I actually thought critically?

Well this has definitely been a long week. As the fall semester comes to an end I am busily getting ready for finals. As I get ready for finals I am glad that I have already finished my Research project. It was a big assignment. It sounded scarier than it actually was. I was not excited to do it until I actually started it. Once I started I became very interested in it. This week I was also able to stop by and visit our teacher Ms Gross. She was very helpful and I wish that I would have gone in there to see her ten weeks ago. So our blog assignment this week was to reflect on what we learned about our writing skills through our Research paper. This paper actually helped me realized the writing skills that I had learned due to other assignments in this class. I realized how the blogs actually helped. I always thought that the blogs were just a sort of fun assignment where there was no actual purpose. I thought oh yeah this is cool but I am not benefiting from this. But when I was writing my research paper I would notice that I would like get a thought on the prompt then I would be able to give details and talk about it for a while. I was able to expand on one thought. I developed this skill from the blogging. I also saw my grammar skills developing stronger after the other essays that we had to type. My knowledge on the MLA format has definitely increased. I never knew that there were so many details to the format. This research paper has actually helped me realize the writing skills that I did not know I had. I think that my final draft will be a very strong paper. The other thing that I learned was how helpful our peers are. I probably have one of the best peer revisers in my group. She has helped me improve my writing skills way more than anything else I think. Her genuine advice has definitely improved many of my papers and it has especially helped me with this research paper. I think that the main purpose of this research paper to me was to learn and practice the new and improving writing skills that I have developed through this class. I think that it was such good practice and will help me in the future because I have had this experience. I feel that not only my writing skills improved but also my thinking skills. I feel that my thought process has improved greatly. I can now think critically, which is ironic. Is this not the purpose of the class?