Reflection For College Students

This class has been incredibly interesting and informative. In fact, this class is quite possibly the best English class I have had. This class could have very easily been composed of writing boring, meaningless essay after boring, meaningless essay; almost every English class I’ve taken so far has been exactly that. But this class wasn’t. For once, this was an English class centered around the students, teaching them the material in a way which they would find engaging and interesting as opposed to force-feeding them raw material and pressuring them to adapt to the way the material is being taught. There is absolutely no reason to make learning objectives more difficult to swallow than they already are.

Before entering this class, I knew how to do a rhetorical analysis, but I didn’t exactly realize the degree to which rhetoric dominated

One can imagine the difficulty I had trying to shape the topic of my first experiment into an issue relevant to ASU students and other college students. In retrospect, I suppose I could have gone with time management; however, this topic would be beating a dead horse and, honestly, it isn’t the most interesting of topics. I decided, therefore, to go with a more interesting topic that is probably one of the most immediately relevant topics to me – especially right now: the effects of stress on college students. I had the opportunity to make this project particularly timely because of the approach of midterms and Halloween, drawing a parallel between zombies and college students. This project helped me brush up on my video making and video editing skills, in addition to allowing me to critically analyze my own work in an objective – as opposed to subjective –