Well I’m glad that summer is around the corner and spring semester is about to be over. Its felt like the semester has been going on forever. Even though it wasn’t that long. I am happy that I decided to take English 101 online. I was a bit indecisive at first because I had heard many negative comments about the class. I also thought there was going to be a ton of work to complete. But I saw for myself that this online course wasn’t so bad and the work was very easy. Professor Gross was very helpful and understanding throughout this semester. I have a wider perspective on peoples opinions on music and their views. I liked the discussions that we had on music because it was interesting to know what everyone had to say. I found it interesting ti understand other’s opinions as well. The blogs were very helpful in communicating with others and to learn different concepts on music. Aside from the many topics that we have gone through as a class I found the different writing techniques to be more successful towards my writing skills. I think the scratch outline, the blogs, and the discussions were a great practice towards writing. They have helped my writing structure along with being able to extend my vocabulary usage. I enjoyed the essay questions in from the readings because it has developed and improved my critical thinking skills. I believe I did a great in answering the questions to the best of my abilities. I found the thesis statement tutorials to be very helpful. the breakdown of how an essay should be written was also important to me and I have based all my writing on it. The different handouts that were made available were also helpful. Especially the handout on how to create a works cited page. That was helpful because I wasn’t so sure on how to do that. Also on learning what internet source is useful and which one is not has helped me to determine which site would be trustworthy on academic papers. As a community I believe we did an all right job to stay civil with each others opinions and views on different topics. I like how no one had an altercation based on what we thought in our blogs. It was a great sense of community. The work that we did this semester was a little intense and very time consuming but it was easy to get done. I had to push myself to do it of course. It was hard to stay on task considering that you work on your time when it comes to online courses. But I liked the suggested week outline of how things should be done. It helped a lot. I also believe the different essays that we did were hard but it helped to develop my writing skills. This English class was overall a great one and probably one of the easiest ones that I have had. I really enjoyed taking this online class.
