Reflection of Using Blog

At first I thought using the blog would not be an effective way of writing and keeping track of all of my past thoughts. But as the semester went on, I saw how easy it was to work on. You just sign in and create your blog, you can also see what others say, as well as your comments on the blogs. Also I believe a blog is much easier to keep track of for the whole class including the teacher. In the past I had to hand in journals for english class, and the teacher would have to go through the whole classes. This took way to long (especially since my hand-writing is so bad. Needless to say I am grateful for my blog haha!

How effective was the two types of workshops for the literacy narrative and propsal essay?

I am not a fan of peer reviews because I know myself, I really am not sure what is wrong with someone elses paper, unless it is a major problem. The work shops would be more effective it was to a person of higher education and had an interest in writing. We as a whole just would like to read the papers and see what it is about, not what is wrong with it. Which also means that we are afraid of commenting to harshly about anothers piece. All in all, I think when we did workshops as a class, there was more discussions of everyones papers indiviually.

Life in Vermillion

Growing up in New Jersey, I never realized how secluded a town could be. In New Jersey towns are seperated by roads since they all pretty much border each other. Towns in South Dakota are seperated by miles and miles of farms. Although I have visited the state at least once a year, for seventeen years, it is completely different actually living here. It is a difficult transition, that some (including myself) cannot handle!! In class it was good to see that I was not the only one transferrring away from USD. I would like to know their reasons for leaving. It would be an interesting class discussion.

Literacy Analysis Outline

The outline was helpful in the way that it organized my paper, and gave me the guidlines for the piece. Of course I waited until the last minute to really work on the paper so it was not filled out. But I think if I did complete it it would have made life a little easier. I would recommend having those outlines for all papers because it really teaches you the correct organization for writing the papers.

I have decided to change what I am going to be writing about for The Most Dangerous Game. Instead of irony, I am going to write how the author uses the characters to represent the different classes.

The main characters in Richard Connell's, "The Most Dangerous Game", are used to show the different classes in the 1920's.

The Most Dangerous Game Thesis

Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" expresses much irony throughout his short story.

Analyzing Literature

Analyzing literature definatly helped me understand what these stories "real" meaning is. There are still certain details in all of the stories that i do not understand or know what the author is trying to portray. But for the most part I get all ot the themes in the stories. Highlighting different points in the story also helped me write my paragraphs. It helped me go back and see things that i wanted to write about. From now on when I read literature for a class, i will have highlighter ready!