Jason Brown
Professor S. Brandon
ENG 112
March 18, 2012
What
I Have Learned
I
want to start off by saying this has been a fantastic semester so far and that
I love this class. I have learned plenty of new things that have been helping
me to get through school work, but most importantly it has been helping me in
life situations.
This
class has taught me how to be a patient person, because when it comes down to
writing a paper, like this one or doing hard homework you have to be patient if
not you will feel like just giving up on everything which you cannot do at all.
Being patient has also been helping me in my life situations at my job, because
if it was up to me I would have been quit from being disrespected by rude
customers.
Have
you ever been told you talk way too much? Well, I have been told that I
communicate with anybody and everybody. To me, being a better communicator will
get you through life a lot more. You never know who you could be talking to at
that moment. The person that you could be talking to could make you a rich
person or even talk knowledge into you that you did not even know about. During
this class I have learned how to be a better communicator than I once was by
participating in different discussions with other people and with the professor.
I have been learning how to be a better listener than I once was also, because
I am the type of person who will talk and never listen to anybody. When other
people talked to me I used to just stand or sit and pretend like I was
listening, but it was mainly going in one ear and out the other.
Speaking of communication using rhetorical knowledge is a
great way of trying to communicate with people, because it helps you learn how
to talk and write to your audiences. Everybody has mainly used there rhetorical
knowledge when they talked to their friends. The rhetorical knowledge helps you
recognize the elements of argumentation in text by using what they call the
rhetorical triangle. The rhetorical triangle is when the author talks or writes
it text depending on who their audiences are in a time called chronos. It also
adapts the writing to meet its demands for argumentation in the context.
Rhetorical knowledge helps you out when you are trying to argue about
something. Like if you get the arguing with your girlfriend about something
this helps you get down to main point about why you are arguing with this
person instead of going hours and hours of arguing about this point that turns
into something else. This rhetorical knowledge can help you analyze the needs
and expectations of instructors, students, and other audiences. Rhetorical
helped me learn how to bring credibility to my paper, because without
credibility in your argument paper how are people going to know that you are
speaking the truth about what you are arguing. Learning about rhetorical helped
me deliver text appropriately in print, digital, visual, or oral so it can meet
all of my audiences expectations and needs. For example say I am writing about
an argument to my boss about texting and driving, but somebody else is doing
the same to compete with me and this paper is going to help the boss find out
who to promote to the next level I would want everybody to use a step in oral
communication by listening to me read my paper and tell me that my paper has
credible points in it plus it goes with the audiences that I was writing to.
Learning about how to use critical thinking, reading, and
writing process also helped me how to write a paper. By applying techniques of
inquiry and research to my paper easily such as finding, evaluating, analyzing,
and synthesizing the appropriate primary and secondary sources. It made my
distinctions in thinking, reading, and writing more effective by helping me
think deeper into things after researching on it to put into my paper with the
writing process.
I have also learned how to use my time more consistently
with my work and all my other hobbies from reading about Thomas Jefferson who
had the things that he did timed out. Reading about Thomas Jefferson also made
me a better person physically and emotionally now I do not save things for the
last minute, because I made my own schedule and timed my days out.
Yes, I did learn about MLA format in English 111, but
after using it now in English 112 I have got this method down pact and I love
how it works. This does help me be more patient with writing my paper, because
it makes it a lot easier than what it is if you did not use a 12 font, indent,
or use double space.
To conclude this being in this class has taught me a lot.
All these things that I have learned about I use in my life now mainly of how
to communicate with people and how to listen. It made me a better person in
real life of how to be patient and of how to not hold things off to the last
minute. Leaving things off to the last minute makes things more stressful on
you and actually waste your time. My professor takes the things that we learn
about and puts them in real life situations which makes this class more
interesting and helps me to learn easily and more effectively.
In this class I feel like I should at least end up with a
B average, but it is not my call to what I get. I know that I did learn a lot
from this class and I am willing to keep learning more from it. My favorite
part of this class so far was learning about how to use the rhetorical
knowledge, because you always need to know how to speak to your audiences and
at the same time have the credibility that you need. Also another favorite part
of this class that I learned was how to improve my oral communication, because
this method helps you meet new people that you might need throughout your life,
but the only way you can communicate with people is also by listening to them
and not ignoring what they have to say to you. If you do that you are not learning
about this person neither is you using this method of oral communication
effectively.
