My Brief Description
This course helped me be better at my writing and really understand what the reading is saying. The textbook that was required for this class had inspiring stories that really made you think. The essays did the same thing. The last essay that was assigned made us think of our definition of empathy. For all the essays we had to use evidence from the readings to back what we were saying. There was also a focus on doing peer-review. This class really helped enhance those skills.
UNE Course Description
“This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as a recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores.”
3 Key Things that I Learned:
- Peer reviewing is more than looking for errors in other’s papers. It is more about offering advice and constructive criticism.
- Even though writing multiple drafts can be annoying it really does help when it comes to writing. The more drafts that are written the more it allows you to see what you have to work on in that paper and future papers.
- This is the class where I first learned how to operate an ePortfolio.
Sample of Work
This is the final essay that I mentioned above. This is my final draft of this paper. The main focus of this was what was our definition and how we see empathy in the world. This is my final result of two papers before it and multiple drafts. After taking advice from peers the outcome is what I consider one of my best papers that I have written.
