BLOG ENTRY 12

SAMEERA DHANANI

ENG 101

PROF. DR. J SMITH

10^TH JUNE, 2014.

FINAL EXAMINATION

                         One year back when I came to United States, I defined what success and career means to me. Before taking this class, ENG class was a class of para writing, learning grammar and reading stuff. But after taking this class I actually can define what makes an individual to be a writer. Summarizing the essays, making arguments on topics, creating new from our learning and observation are the basic skills a writer needs. From childhood I have always been running from writing, whether it is to complete my assignment, notes or essay. In this class throughout the semester we discussed about food. Being a food lover I enjoyed the class and realized writing is not bad as I thought. Even if we cannot write on all the given topics, we can write on topics which interest to us.

                I remember when I wrote the first essay in this class, I was like ‘no this is not my work, If it is to write the essays throughout the semester, I am never going to pass this class.’ But as I continued writing reflections every week, I kept on improving my writing. Looking back at all the reflection every week, putting some new ideas, taking help from the tutors, revising it again helped me a lot to learn. But still I am confused whether it was the topic of my interest as I am a food lover or it was the class which made lot of group work, discussions and arguments on topics which made me to write. Even if not writing, being a food lover, I got too know more about food which I never knew before. Like about the fast food industry where and how it was started, how it progressed, what techniques are use to increase the profits of markets. And also how they use the resources like animals to prepare food by Slaughtering, de-beaking and many more. I also came to know about various food cultures while going throughout the book. While doing the research paper and going throughout the meatrix site and selecting the topic I came to know about various issues like factory farming, various pollution and a lot more. After learning so much about food I realized what knowledge I had before was compared to nothing.   

                Writing class has been an adventure trip for me, where I came out of the phobia of writing and learned the methods, techniques to write. I lack many skills which a writer has.  I am still not able to think as wider as a writer does. I also do lack English skills in me being English as a second language, which pulls me back.  In this class I learned to connect the things with one another and wider our thoughts more and more while we were discussing on how fast food industry was started, trusted friends.

            I am pretty more confident about taking the other classes related to research and writing. After doing the research essay from the last two weeks I agree I did not do so well this time since it was my first time and also I was being lazy. But I feel I can do research on many more topics and improve on it in rest of the classes. Being an accounting major student I guess so I do not need lot of writing and research. But somewhere or the other I have to use it. I will try to improve and do more hardwork  so that I can write something.