Letter

Dear Laura Cline,

I think that my biggest challenge so far is preparing for the essays, and forgetting what they should be about. Since the topic and description is given the week before, I don’t work on it right away so when I see we have an essay due, I have no idea what it should be about. My biggest success are the topics on the blog posts, I find them interesting and like doing them.

Analysis is a lot different from my other essays that I have done in Yavapai College, mostly because if I read the assignment and proved that I understood the information, I received an A on the essay. If I gave a good summary and presented the theme of it, I knew I was fine in the class. Turning in homework on time helped a lot because I was sure I had at least a B average. In analysis looking outside of the box is a lot harder because I don’t know what I should be thinking about or looking for.

For the second half, I want to better prepared for writing my essays and work on them different days at a time, not all in one setting. I tend to wait and want to do it in one sitting. I get frustrated with these essays because of the analysis factor, because I never really know what to analyze and always feel like I’m doing it wrong. I think I have a hard time writing these essays because I don’t relate or connect with what we read. I think that the stories are too old and the way they are written makes them very boring and I have a hard time finishing them and grasping the message that I am supposed to get out of it.

Overall, I like this online class and like the challenge of it. Also having to interact with classmates through blog posts is different but I like it.