UWP 101 Coming To An End

As the last days of UWP 101 get closer and closer, I remember the first day I went to class and thought that this class would be a typical composition class. I dreaded summer session I when I thought that the teacher would be a typical English teacher where he would tell us to read several books and write several essays. For being an engineering major, my fingers are typically on a calculator and not on a pencil writing an essay or on a book reading about how to become a better writer. Even when Mr. Schaberg told the class that the class would be his guinea pigs for his new prospective on teaching a class, I thought that we would have to write rigorous and lengthy blogs everyday. As summer continued I did not participate much in the class by voicing my opinion. I am the type of person to listen more then speak, and I view myself as someone who speaks when something needs to be said. Writing online gave me inspiration to express my thoughts online without the worries about raising my hand and speaking in front of random peers. Blogging aloud me to see how my peers responded to my thoughts and some helped me to polish my writing skills. As I read through my old posts I can see the evolution of my writing and my continuous problem of not capitalizing my "I's." Even though Mr. Schaberg wrote some lengthy comments on my blogs, his insight aloud me to see how I could express my thoughts more clearly. It was interesting to see the different backgrounds my fellow classmates came from and all the different views each of us had. I found classroom discussions to be very funny which is rare because there were no boundaries to the subjects we discussed about and we did not have to hold back from using foul language or not being afraid to talk about some gigantic testicles a person saw. After each class discussion, I was anxious to write in my blog, to my surprise. Writing in my blog aloud me to let a lot of my thoughts be put online where I could comment on my fellow classmates' thoughts. It was rigorous to get myself up so early everyday but the hour and a half of class seemed to pass by in a flash because of the interesting discussions the class had. Something that was very different from the writing classes that I had in my college career was the freedom the whole class had to say what was on their mind and to even pose questions to the rest of the class. Another unique quality that this class had was a student's opportunity to view everyone's unique style of writing and be able to voice one's opinion through a comment. Each person had a unique style of writing but we were aloud to write and relate what each of us was interested in. The option of comment on another person's blog to gain participation points was a plus as well for people such as myself who do not like to speak in class to have the same opportunity to get the same amount of points as a person who spoke frequently in class. All in all this class has changed my view about writing. In the past I dreaded writing classes and writing essays, but after this class I am confident to write at a level that I find to my liking. I would never think I would see the day where I would write seven hundred plus words about a subject, but my thoughts have changed.