Peter Roberts

Final Reflection Letter

English 120

Reflection of Class as a Whole

This class has required me to think and develop skills I didnt have before. It
has influenced me in critical ways such as teaching me to be open-minded,
understanding what truth is, and how I want to proceed with my education. Despite
being a math kind of guy I have enjoyed this class the most this semester. It might
seem like an online course might not be that engaging, but as far as interactive the
weebly site and reflections forced me to reexamine each assignment I have done
for the course. The way in which the projects were set up was extremely helpful in
developing perspective as well as the development of my writing style. The
reflections were tedious, but critical for the evaluation of the works in the class.
My style of writing has matured in format as well as context.
The most difficult and frustrating part about the course was when I was
putting my portfolio together. The reflections were out of order with project three
and forced me to change some reflection letters so I could use previous reflections
from project 3. I also believe that there are only eleven reflection questions as
opposed to the twelve that were being asked. I wasnt sure whether to reference my
projects, how they were reviewed, my opinions, or other outside sources in order to
fulfill the editing requirement for each reflection. The formats of the example
weebly sites, the weebly editing video on week two, the video for project three
reviews on week 15, the portfolio prompt on week 2, and the portfolio prompt for
week fifteen were all differently formatted and made it extremely difficult to
decipher how you would like the portfolio to be, and took up a considerable

amount of time. Overall, despite difficulties, I believe I developed substantially as

a writer and thinker, and with a little more clear instructions as well as one
explicit/consistent rubric I believe this course will be spot on and a pleasure for
any incoming student if they choose to put the time and effort forth. Thank-you for
a wonderful introduction to college writing, and I hope the course continues to
evolves in a similar fashion as the students it influences to evolve.