I found the discussion forum to be somewhat confusing when I was beginning the assignment. I was overwhelmed by all of the posts and confused as to where I was supposed to submit my part. However, I did find it interesting to be able to read what some of my classmates wrote on their posts. Many students had a lot of the same ideas and thoughts which showed unity among our class.
The worst part of this assignment for me was the article in which we were asked to derive all of our thoughts and ideas from. The articles about science, research and how bad of writers they can be was very puzzling and a lot to take in for this kind of assignment. I spent majority of my time reading the articles so that I could get what they were saying enough to form a comparing and contrasting opinion between the two articles. Some of the sentences and information in the articles was extremely hard for me to understand so I had to go back and re-read it over and over again. When I was finished, I felt well educated on scientists writing problems and how they should address the public audience in better, more understandable ways.
Personally, I would not like any more forum discussions for future assignments unless the topics we are assigned to read are more simple to follow. It was very hard for me to follow this last one because there was so much text and the articles were very lengthy. I had to take notes on notebook paper then I had to correlate my notes into paragraphs on “pages” on my computer. I also did not find this forum discussion assignment to be enjoyable because it was overwhelming to comment on others posts and where to post everything. Reading through my classmates posts were interesting and informational but in the long run, I was becoming more and more confused about my own opinion for this particular assignment. Sometimes reading other peoples work can mess me up because I begin to question my own thoughts and ideas after reading theirs. I compare my writing to other peoples and it scares me because I think that what I wrote is not up to par with that of my classmates. I find myself changing and re-wording paragraphs because I do not think they are as good as students from my class. Usually, my writing is not even that bad, I just freak myself out into thinking it is not as good as my classmates, but this is something I have to work on. In the future, if given forum discussions, it would be easier and better for everyone if the articles that are to be discussed would be easier to read and shorter in length. If given a short, somewhat easy article to read I will be more than happy to discuss my opinion on a forum.
I agree with what you said about them being difficult at first. It is hard to start up a conversation about a difficult reading. The up-side, for me, was that we were able to look at everyone's perspective.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the article was very difficult to read and had to be read over and over again in order to be understood but i guess that comes with scholarly articles and college in general. I was a little overwhelmed as well with the assignment but it became easier to understand with each time i read it and probably will make our paper 2 assignment a little easier.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what miss opinion said about being overwhelmed with the assignment but i do think that it was beneficial because it organized everyone's thoughts into one place
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you about the articles being confusing and having to reread them, hopefully if we have to do another discussion forum it will be on an interesting topic and not required for a grade!
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