The Final Reflection

After making my way through this semester and this, the final English class of my entire life, I cannot say that I have many memories that particularly stick out in my mind, but I feel that this class and everything that it taught me has strengthened my writing abilities and has helped me learn to form my own opinions. Let me elaborate. For instance, one particular quasi-revelation that I had was when I was writing the blog post in response to Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” I distinctly remember reading that article and wondering why someone would bash the use of the internet. I had never really heard of people claiming that the internet is a bad thing; I just assumed that it was assumed that the internet was a good thing for our society. Hearing a different view than mine caused me to have such a deep and heated reaction and I am sure that that showed in my blog post. So because of this “revelation,” I feel that I have learned new methods of debate and I feel that I can now hold my own in an argument.

As I said before, I feel that blogging really helped me open up to be a better writer. The audience I was writing to was expanded to my peers, not just to the teacher. For this reason I wrote in a different tone in order to suit my audience. This tone forced me to write in more of an aggressive and persuasive manner, which I have never really been exposed to before.

As for my reading habits, I feel that they still have not changed very much. Even after reading two blogs and the New York Times on a daily basis for half a semester, I still do not find much enjoyment in reading the news. Yes, I do feel like I benefit in being informed on what is going on in our world, but for some reason it is very difficult for me to find the time to sit down and search out the news.