English 151

Gabby Gonzales
English 151
Final essay
My thoughts on English 151
Surprisingly English was my favorite class that I’ve taken all year besides learning community. In high school I didn’t care for English at all, it was by far my least favorite subject. It was my least favorite subject because I felt as if every year we did the same thing over and over again. We learned about periods, commas, and all that other stuff. I pretty much assumed we would be doing the same thing in English 151. Luckily I was wrong, I like that I did get to review that stuff, but when I did it wasn’t just in some boring way.
The part of English 151 that I enjoyed the most and was the last thing I expected to happen in an English class was the group discussion and participation. Out of all the English classes that I’ve taken we have never really had group discussion or input on anything. Ultimately the class was a group discussion class which made it more fun and diverse. I say diverse because you got to hear what other people thought and why and sometimes I was swayed in what I thought because I never looked at most things from both point of views just my own. Also since we all participating I think it kept everyone’s interest. Even though the class was a group discussion class and that was good too much of something always ends up getting boring, but I thought we had a good mix because every now and then we did things like go to the library or watch documentaries and things like that which worked out perfect for me. The mix of how we had our classes I thought was very fitting.
Even though I would say our English class was more modern I still believe that I took more out of that class then I did from many of my other English classes. One thing that I found out needed work in my writing was that I was very vague and didn’t use exact details very often. I guess I never really took much thought about how a detail can have a bigger impact or make the picture clearer for the reader. My assignment about Bird Arena helped me with because I had to explain why I did everything the way I did. By explaining why I did the things I did I had to be very exact in my details and it made me realize the small things make a difference. Another instance where I wasn’t detailed in my writing was when talking about sustainability at OU I just said ping saves money and it funds other projects throughout the campus. Luckily you caught that and told me to be specific. When I put how the money saved from Ping is generally put towards intramural equipment and other recreational activities at OU it made OU look more sustainable and had a good impact on the paragraph. So if I had to pick one thing that improved on from English 151 I would say being more specific in my writing. There were many other things such as MLA formatting, attributive tags and citations in general that I learned a great deal about, but being specific I think will help my writing the most.
Lastly something really good that I can use throughout college that I learned from English 151 is how to use Presi. I probably never would’ve took the time to sit down and figure out how to work Presi because I would’ve thought it looked complicated. I realized it wasn’t complicated but I know myself and I know I wouldn’t have taken the time to figure it out but thank goodness I did. I will now be able to use that for presentations in other classes and for a while before everyone else finds out I will have an advantage over everyone else who still uses powerpoint. It was a nice way to end the class it was a fun and interesting project that got me acquainted with Presi.