Week 15

After taking this course, I feel that my sentence structure has improved.  Sometimes I would have a few sentences that dragged on or were confusing to read, and now I can typically catch my own mistakes.  I still seem to have trouble with comma placement in some of my sentences, but that has gotten better as the semester has gone on.  I also struggle in making good conclusions to my papers without repeating too much.  I learned quite a bit about research this semester also.  I had never used the academic resources here at Ball State, so the day at the library was very helpful.  One part about the class that could be improved is the reading discussion.  I felt like a lot of reading was required, but when we had class, we didn’t usually talk about all the readings.  I did, however, like the group discussion that we often had during class.  I felt like the conferences were helpful and well placed in the course of the semester.  The first conference was a good place to discuss the first couple of papers and the second conference was at a good time to ask questions about the final project.  Before today’s class, I would have said that one more conference may have been helpful, but you did have a mini-conference with everyone to ask final questions, which was good.  Overall, this class helped me improve my writing, and was therefore beneficial.