Personal Reflection

In approximately 350 words I will explain how the ISU has not academically or intellectually progressed my education in the direction that I so desired. This ISU seemed just as typical and repetitive as any other academic English course. Furthermore, most of the repetition came from the reading and identifying of themes in the book and supporting this with quotations. I cannot count the number of times this grueling task has been done in any university or academic English class. Although this assignment hasn't headed me in the intellectual direction I wished, I can assume by constantly fighting with Blogger to upload parts of my English ISU that this has somehow enriched my understanding of this program. Also, I can appreciate the fact that teachers are now trying to enrich their students writing through different forms of media, but you're never going to get the same feedback on a blog in comparison to the suggestions a teacher underlines and elaborates on for a paper that you have handed in. To what extent am I a better reader and writer? I would have to say that the ISU did do what it was designed for by aiding me in the repetitive task of searching through text for themes and supporting this with blatantly obvious quotations. On the contrary though, there was one thing I found that reallydid increase the quality of my writing: the fact that any one of my classmates could read or comment on my blogs. This created added pressure for me to enrich the quality of my writing, and to stay in tune with the writing of my classmates. Unfortunately, I found that writing for this larger audience also did hinder another part of my writing that is already lacking, this would be my inevitably poor punctuality. Overall, I'm not going to be close minded and say that this ISU lacks the credentials to assist in the developing of ones intellectual abilities, but it would be nice if there could be a little less English repetition and a little more English inspiration.