Discourse Course Reflection

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Discourse 300 this semester taught me a lot about communities that I’m personally involved in and communities that I’m interested in. It also allowed for me to explore and learn about communities I never would have known about or looked into through peer speeches and papers. This course also refreshed my memory on how to conduct academic research effectively and how to peer review. This was by far the most advanced discourse class I have taken and I believe I learned quite a bit about myself and discourse as a whole. This course really made me dig deep into communities and get to the core. Everyone is apart of a community and a lot of time multiple communities but we don’t realize who makes up these communities and how they operate. This course has allowed me to understand those process more fluently. I also learned a lot about myself in this course, I learned that …show more content…

I learned about how to conduct academic research in a productive way. This program also taught me how to identify credible resources and use academic search engines that I wouldn’t have used prior to this class. Also the worksheets that were passed out to help organize our researched and conduct a wider range of research was extremely helpful and a tool that I will continue to use throughout college. Similar to other discourse classes peer view and discussion was a key factor to success. Peer review in this course helped a lot with my speeches and papers because it gave me opinions from other students and my professor that I wouldn’t necessarily have came up with myself. It also helped me generate a better argument through topic proposals and peer interactions that pushed me to dig a little deeper for better research on my community. I also believe that the speeches assigned in this course allowed for me to increase my public speaking skills and learn to communicate in certain types of discourse at appropriate

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