Understanding The Main Goals Of The English 1106 Course

Cody Miller
Combiths
English 1106
8 May 2015
Final Reflection Journal I have learned a lot in English 1106. The many readings, writing, and discussions helped me understand the main goals of the course, which include developing arguments on positions, researching tops and developing a thesis, and conduct field research in a variety of ways. These various goals helped contribute to a better understanding of the course theme, which weighs heavily on culture. We worked to understand how family life, friends, and environments helped influence culture. Many readings helped me understand how culture can be influenced across the world, including “Case Studies: Global Issues.” This article helped explain that the development of technology has influenced globalization of the world and changed culture on a wider scale. Something that affects one part of the world now affects a complete different place on another side of the world. This article helped influence my opinion for the contextualized analysis paper, which may be the assignment that was mostly related to the theme of the class. It helped me learn that culture is not just influenced by the people and environment you are around. Globalization is both helping and hurting culture. It makes communication easier and helps bridge the culture gap, but it also creates an identity crisis. People are becoming more similar to the point where culture seems to be dying out. In addition to my understanding of the theme of this class, I also learned a lot about myself as a writer. I learned that I can take a broad concept, such as the fieldwork research paper, and make it into my own. We were supposed to write about our experiences so far in college and how we (or a particular group) fit in. This assignment helped me realize how easy it is to write about your own experiences. When you are writing about your own story, the writing flows much better. Overall, I believe that I have become a much better writer through my time in this course. I have written many different types of pieces, such as journals, and the contextualized analysis paper, film review, and a fieldwork research paper. I helped gain a better understanding of where my strengths and weaknesses lie. I have had to both analyze my environment and analyze pieces given to me in order to write about the deeper meaning of the cultural part of the world. Doing so, I have bettered myself as a writer and as a person.