Blog Post # 13: Reflection on the course

Before this class I was only confident writing summaries or boring research type papers.  I had no idea what literary analysis was and had no real interest in learning more about it.  This class has changed my perspective.  While I don’t expect to ever have a writing career, I do love to read and am excited to have a new skill in interpreting text.  I had not spent much time actually thinking about where an author was coming from or what they might have meant.  I have always just rushed through the text and then moved on to the next.  Only to have an opinion of whether I liked or not, but never a real reason why.

I am finishing up my last semester at Yavapai this summer and will have finally finished my associate’s degree. I wish that I had taken this class earlier in my college career, as I think it would have been a big help with other writing assignments.  I hope to move on to working towards my bachelor’s degree in accounting very soon.  I am not sure how much writing will be involved, but if there is any, I know the skills that I have learned in this class have helped to prepare me for any future writing assignments.

          When I first saw the reading list for this class I was very disappointed.  I had seen the movie of both, Winter’s Bone and Up in the Air, and hated them!  I almost dropped the class!  I am so glad I didn’t.  While my opinions about, Up in the Air, have still not changed, I absolutely loved reading Winter’s Bone.  I went back and watched the movie again and loved it too.  If I could change one thing about this class it would be to get rid of, Up in the Air, all together.  I hated reading it, watching it, and most of all, writing about it.  Getting through it was the biggest challenge for me in this class.  I am still battling with writing my paper, but I do believe that it will make me a better writer in the end.  Reading and writing about something that I do not enjoy only makes me more appreciative of the things that I love.

I was also very nervous about the technological aspect of this class in the beginning.  Not anymore!!  I think this is what I benefited most from in this class.  I never intended to become any type of writer, but I do own my own business and needed the skills to be more technologically savvy.  I will be able to use the skills I learned in this class to better my store’s image and advertise in ways I never knew possible.