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1. What skills have you learned in this class and how might you apply them to writing in your career or future college courses?
I now know how to blog! I came into this class a primitive caveman spending my days hunting and gathering but now I am an expert at putting my silly and/or offensive opinions all over the intrawebz! After doing these blogs I feel like I have a pretty good idea of how all of the assorted internet media I have enjoyed over the years is created.
2. How have the readings in the class affected you?
Bartleby got me interested in a 17th century murder mystery that I knew nothing about. I have read Moby Dick once and listened to two different audio versions and I always found Melville's writing style super interesting.
White Noise annoyed me to a point I thought was unimaginable and I some how held it together and didn't build an armored bulldozer and rampage through town square. I would suggest anyone who questions their mental well being threshold give it a try. You should probably have a handler near by to keep you from doing harm to yourself or others. I don't think I will be reading any DeLillo in the near future.
Oh boy Swift's A Modest Proposal was a laugh riot. Easily the most interesting of all the required readings for this course. I couldn't help but think of the awesome Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man while reading it. Could Jonathan Swift have been an alien invader from a distant galaxy trying to convince primitive humans to offer up their delicious children to the invaders? I think so.
3. How have you met the learning outcomes for the class (which can be found on the syllabus)?
I think the standout on the syllabus is "interpret and analyze text" I really had to read over and/or listen to things multiple times and pick out all the things I thought stood out as having significant meaning.
4. How has your writing or your writing process changed?
I didn't change my process much. I took way more notes on the materiel that I wasn't as interested in. I have like three full pages of notes on White Noise. Knowing ahead of time what is coming at you was very nice. I could just look at the next weeks assignments and see what kind of questions I would have to be answering and take lots of information down I thought might come in handy.
5. What were your challenges in the class? How were you able to overcome them?
I have always been pretty good at doing things I didn't want to do especially if I was paying to do them. I am not a big fan of reading. I like to be moving around and doing things and I always found it hard to drive and turn pages at the same time. An easy way to combat this is with Audiobooks. Boy howdy do I like audiobooks I just put it on my MP3 player and hop on my bike and take off on a trail somewhere.
Here is a link to Audible. It is a very nice source of all things Audio. It isn't just Audiobooks you can also find neato stuff like interviews and ye olde tyme radio shows.
