Course Reflection Blog

When we were first assigned the publications assignment I thought it was going to be very tedious mainly because I despise writing, but it turned out to be a pretty interesting assignment. The writing became interesting because we were allowed to write it in our own way instead of having a set way or writing like we normally have to in English courses. This made my publications easier to write and it made the other publications easier to read because they were not boring like most assigned writings are. Working in a group also made the work easier because we only had to focus on certain aspects of the assignment instead of having to do it all by ourselves. Overall though the responses is what really made my writing less complicated because it allowed me to see what specific changes I needed to make by listening to the readers of my publication.

Now for my learning process...When we first started this course we were supposed to find out who we were as science learners and writers. At first I was thinking those two things have nothing to do with each other and there is no way I'm a scientist because I hate science with a passion but now I think I understand what it means. Scientists analyze and write about their studies before they perform their experiments which is a form of making. From Make Cycle 1 to the current assignment we are doing now we ourselves have been analyzing (especially in Make Cycle 2), making (Make Cycle 1-3), and writing (G+, daybook, and publications) throughout the course. So even though I still hate science with a passion I understand that we are all scientists in our own way and that science occurs everywhere even in an English course.