Course Summary

Although I do read, I am not a reader.  I like short pieces and things music-related.  So, the fact that this course was all shorter essays was great.  I haven’t read so much in ages. I liked quite a few of the stories although 30 Little Turtles and Women Confronting War were the easiest to comment on.  Code Breaker was my least favorite.  The essay was interesting but I’m sure there was something more that I should have got out of it that I didn’t.  Here’s where the blog thing is helpful.  I could read what others commented on and get a better understanding of the essay. I liked the distance format of the class- it's my first (the other classes I have are face-to-face).  I think I actually got more from it then I would have if I’d been sitting in the class.  When I was writing I could actually refer back to questions and answers from others in the class so I think it helped me make fewer mistakes (we’ll see).  This was probably my heaviest course and definitely the one which has had the most reading.  The assignments were well spread out – sometimes I wondered if it were necessary to do both a discussion and a blog in the same week – the responses (mine included) got lesser as other assignments got in the way.  I know I have to work on my sentence structure still but maybe that’s just practice. I know that more reading helps make you a better writer so as much as I would have preferred to read less I know more is better.  Thanks.