The end

English 103 was my second class the first day of college and we just got the syllabus and reading homework like the class before. I thought this class would be the worst class with a lot of reading and essays to do like in high school. However, while the semester went on it turned out there would just be little reading assignments in the textbook that we never really used, blog entries every week, and just three big writing assignments. I thought the class would also be really boring but our teacher was young and active in teaching the material so it was not awful to be in.

As far as things I learned in this class, rhetoric is probably the main thing that I learned about throughout the course of the class. So this class did a good job in what we are supposed to know and understand about expressing ideas in a way to sway an audience. I realized that rhetoric is everywhere and is difficult to get away from in this era of multi-media immersed surroundings. This idea of rhetoric was evident in all of our assignments throughout the semester. The first major assignment was the rhetorical analysis paper on a subject matter of our choosing which I thought was good for creating an argument that I can relate to. The second major assignment was the research paper on an argument and rhetoric analysis of visual. This paper was more like the papers I had in high school that were supposed to be really long and informative on the topic. The third project was a group project that was about convincing the audience of an idea which involved rhetoric yet again. This project was good to see how working in groups can be in college; even though there were only three of us in a group, we still got the project done with a lot of work put into it.

Things that were bad about this course were buying the textbooks because they came with an access code that we never used. I did not really use the textbooks much, but that is probably why I did not do so well on the quizzes we had on the readings. There is not anything else that was bad about this course. I thought it was good that our teacher actually graded our work and not just gave a completion grade like some of the other teachers that I have heard about. Although that made the class a little more difficult, it is still good for making sure that we know how to write and communicate effectively with an audience.

Learning about the writing center was also something that is helpful because I will not be taking many English classes or classes that require writing so when the time comes when I need to actually write a paper, I will know where to go if I need help. I think having more group assignments would be good throughout the year so we can learn how to work effectively in a group setting.