The assignment that I feel was most successful was the flyer which I believe was essay number 3. I am more of a visual person, so this was by far the easiest assignment. The outline was easy to follow and meet. While having fun doing this assignment, I also learned a lot about poetry. I could have done better on the quizzes by double checking my responses and cross-referencing them with my notes and the material given. I could have also studied the material more intently to get a better grade. Coming into this class, I could say that I did not have much experience writing essays that had such a detailed and specific outline. At first it was a struggle because I felt like I was producing good work, but it just did not meet the directions. However, now I think having these outlines assisted me in producing work that is more focused, structured and organized. Because these are all great attributes of a good paper, I now appreciate this way of writing more. To summarize i learned how to write more structured, organized and focused papers.
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Keona, what you write about learning how to better structure essays makes me feel really good! I like to think that what students learn in ENG 201 translates into other courses and even into real-life and work situations. It’s so nice to hear too that doing the poetry flyer helped you discover more about poetry. Quizzes for me are the least representative of what I hope students take from this class. I assign them mostly to encourage students to complete all the activities, especially students in the asynchronous section.
Hey Keona, this essay was kind of a challenge to me because I am not really good with graphics. Although I had a rough time putting together my flyer finding the poem perfect for me was the best part of essay 3. Additionally, I was able to find a poem called “I leave her weeping” where the poet is speaking about sometimes she has to just let her daughter cry. As a first time mother I’ve learned that sometimes it’s okay to just let my daughter cry which isn’t ever so often but she is a baby and baby’s cry. It took me a long time to get to that point because in the beginning when she would cry I would cry but I came to the realization that shes crying because she has no other way to express until she becomes of age to actually speak about how she is feeling.
Hi Keona. Totally agree with you on Essay 3. That was the one I enjoyed doing. It was indeed different from the current essay structure. Researching the poem and pictures for the essay was fun which i enjoyed doing. Writing essays is not really something I enjoys. However, I did learn a lot. I’m hoping to apply the quotations correctly in future essays and writing strong thesis.