AHHH!! The final blog for ENG 101!! Fist, I will talk about my struggles through each unit, then discuss how I have turned those struggles into successes, and lastly, I will talk about how I will use this class as a reminder of how writing and language is not limited to these societal constraints.
For Unit 1, I faced the challenge of having an interview cancellation at the last minute for my article on nutrition. I had to find another person to interview, and find them FAST. I eventually found a person, and the interview, in my opinion, turned out to be more beneficial in providing me with useful information for my article. From this unit, I have learned that you always need back up plans when doing interviews. I also learned about the many types of genres there are and expanded my knowledge on the genre of newspaper style writing.
For Unit 2, I became a more hands on writer and created an experiment to test writing and language constraints. My group decided to take an academic paper that we tend to see on 8x11 paper and put it on 3x5 note cards. We did not change anything else about the paper, except the format. The results of our experiment supported our hypothesis that people would be alarmed by this. On a scale 1-10 (1 being not surprised, 10 being very surprised), our average level of surprise was about a 5.25, a little more than half. From this unit, I learned that our society has been conditioned (by who knows) into thinking writing should be a specific way, and anything that goes against those norms is not easily accepted. For example, which sentence looks “right” to you: (1) The cat was scared so it ran up the tree. OR (2) the CAT WAS scared So It ran UP the TREE. Both mean the same thing, society will only accept the first sentence as correct. The power of socialization is the main thing I have learned in Unit 2.
In Unit 3, I have learned that when constructing an article, you want to have visual aids for the reader. The visual aids will keep the attention of the readers…
So
They
Will
Not
Get
Bored
With
Reading.
After constructing my rough draft of my article, I revised my article to have:
- Bullet points of the things I needed
- Visual aids, and
- Explicit details in my writing
From ENG 101, I have learned a great deal about writing in general and writing with specifics. From this class, I will now know how to properly give peer reviews in a constructive way, incorporate visual aids in my articles, take notice to constraints in our society, and expand my writing skills by considering other genres of writing before I stick with the norms.
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