week 10: Question 3

3). Pick one concept from throughout the semester that you feel can use further discussion

One of the concepts that I think that can use further discussion is more of the paper writing topics. I think that before we had wrote the papers we could have got to learn more about the topics in detail rather then just getting thrown into writing and learning on our own. I think the topics were also very vague which made it hard to learn. One of the things that could of used more detail was what we were learning in the book could get explained more then just placing it into a blog post but using what we learned more into our paper writing because I feel like when It came down to it, they were 2 separate things. For me personally I learned the most from the paper writing rather then the blog post so I think using the material from the book and using the skills within the group papers would have been more useful to me. But overall I think this course was extremely useful and I learned a lot and I’m very pleased with the outcome. I would recommend others to take this course as it is going to help me along my educational path.

Week 10: Question 2

2). What was your favorite thing about the class?  What was your least favorite thing about the class?  How can this class be improved?  Again, be specific.

My favorite part of the class was the ability to summit the work via blogger. Com. I think it is important that as students we take advantage of the new ways of communication as the internet world is growing larger. I liked that we had to make our post in time increments because it helps the fact of procrastination. I think this is a problem that most students face and it helped me from getting back into the habits because in this course didn’t allow me to. I enjoyed that. One of the things that I didn’t prefer was the group work. But I don’t think that would be able to get changed since this course is based on group work. But in the long scheme of thing it helped me become a much better student because it taught me the skills to work with others in a professional way. I think one of the things that can be fixed it switching up the groups. I think it would have been nice to work with another group of students on the second paper. But I think over all keeping the groups worked well but I think changing them would have been a little better.

Week 10: Question 1

1). What have you learned in this class over the course of the semester?  Be specific.

One of the most important things that I learned in this class this summer would have to be that I learned to work with others. This is something that has always been challenging to me. I’m such a control freak and I always want to be the one who is doing everything on my own and within this course I was not able to do so. That was something hard for me to let go of. But with the group papers I was able to let go (since I had to) and relay on others. I think that is important skill to know since I’m getting into my major classes and I’m most likely going to have to do group work. It has been a hardship to let go but in the long run I know it is has helped me to develop better critical thinking skills as well as working along side with others.

Week 9: Disscussion Question 3

3). Gather a group of folks (no less than 4 other people) and discuss either the first or second assignment in detail.  Present your paper, and find out their opinion.  See if you can pick out any flaws in your groups reasoning and arguments.  Discuss the group activity in your post, summarizing what the folks noticed.  (The group of folks can be comprised of family, friends, acquaintances, etc....).

I gathered in a group of at my work. I asked 4 of the other interns that I work with to talk and read over my papers from my first two assignments in the class. Since they were group work I had to base my judgment from a group effort instead of an individual level. When the group read through the 2 different papers one of the common factors that they noticed was they the level of witting had improved from the first paper to the 2^nd paper. Which was nice to hear because the class is based on improvement and learning from common made mistakes. One of the other things that the interns noticed about the two different writings was it wasn’t mixed well with each others styles. That was something my group tired to work on and fix but I guess that is something that can always be improved. The group also came to a understanding that they thought both papers would receive a good grade but if our group spent more time would could of done a lot better. But overall we stuck to the prompt and we did what was asked. At the end of the talk I found it to be interesting that I asked others to read my paper. Through out it all I had mixed feelings but towards the end I enjoyed listening to what others had to say about my work. I liked this exercise a lot!

Week 9 Disscussion Question 2

When I first clicked on the web page about mission critical I was lost and confused on what I was supposed to be reading and learning about it. But part of learning how to critically think is learning on my own. Which made me go through all of the links that were listed on the web page and read them all. When I was reading through them it looked like it was a lot of information that I already learned about prior in the class. So it made this experience more like a review session then anything else. I found it useful to go over all of the material that we already covered in class and relearn everything all over again. One of the topics that I think was useful to read over again was the material that we learned in week 1 and 2 of comm. 41. The terms that we learned in week 1 and 2 were Statements and Conversions and Statements of Ambiguity. I forgot some of the definitions and rules that go along with these parts of arguments. This was extremely useful when it comes to reviewing for the final.

2). what was useful about the Mission Critical website?

Week 9 Disscussion Question 1

1). What was useful about the Cause and Effect website reading and exercises?

I think some of the most helpful things that I learned for the cause and effect website exercises was that not matter what the effect is there is always going to be a cause. That when they gave me the question about that happened to the employees at the picnic no matter what the cause was they had a different cause. I think that is essential to know this. These are types of things that happen in everyday life. For example when I clicked answer c – all of the employees ate the same potato salad which causes them all to leave the picnic early meaning while they eat different amounts of the potato salad they all got sick and left early. If I also clicked B- they all still ate the potato salad and got sick and left early. I learned that no matter what if you have a effect you must have a cause and if you have a cause you have a effect. They are always together.

Week 8: Disscussion Question 3

3). Pick one concept from either Chapter 13 or Chapter 15,  not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.

One of the topics that I found useful was in Chapter 13: numbers? In section C Averages. One of the concepts that I always seem to relate back to math is the medium and mode of something. Medium is something is that is the midway mark of a plot of number and or letters. The mode of something is that the most that is most offended used. What I have always been taught it is the number or letter that is the used the most with a plot of information.  I never thought this could be used in there of communication. In the book it talks about how we all use the medium and mode as a way of measuring which is important in our reasoning. We can use both sides of this to determine comparisons in a way that the data will be perceived clearly. The fact in the reading that I was the most interesting was with in finding the medium and mode of something numbers are used more frequently then letters.