Blog Post #9

Throughout this class, we have been working at becoming a better writer. I think that I have gained a lot of valuable knowledge throughout the quarter that will come in handy for me for a long time and all throughout my college career. In high school I obviously did a decent amount of writing, but it was never challenging writing. I was never graded that strictly, and I never felt challenged. I think this made this class a little harder for me than for some other people, just because I didn’t have the experience of writing a piece that took more than just simple thought and writing. It will have ended up to be a valuable experience for me though because I know that this experience will be extremely beneficial to me because throughout college because I will have to write a lot of pieces that, without this class, I wouldn’t otherwise be prepared for. I learned the various techniques and various ways to analyze sources and find sources. It also helped me take those sources, and look for ways to branch out and expand upon them, and connect them to other sources too. This will become very useful when I start to write a lot more scholarly pieces for classes throughout school, and even when it’s not for school, it will just always be helpful in any writing I do throughout the rest of my life. I am glad I took this class, because in the long run, the amount of work it took to learn, will more than surpass the benefits it provides me in the future.