Week 15-Posting 15

This semester of English has probably been the most beneficial to me than any of my other English classes.  I have learned how to write in different styles and methods as well as learned new terms that I had never known about such as focal point and what a ritual is in a field sight.  The toughest part of writing for me has always been the researching process for a paper.  I would always have trouble finding sources that make no sense to my particular topic and would have trouble following the source to find the information.  I feel this is the process that I have most improved on this semester.  I enjoyed doing interviews and making surveys for the mini ethnography as well as having a library day in class to learn how to find sources in the humongous university library.  It wasn't just all about the books and the website sources.  We were able to interact with real people and get real reactions the research we were conducting.  The main thing that I feel I still struggle with in my writing process is depth or explaining things in much more description.  I have always been the person to be a bit too broad with my writing and not describe things thoroughly, thus making the reader get lost eventually.  I am really trying to work on this with my mini ethnography.  I have a couple suggestions for how the class could be conducted more efficiently in the future.  First, I think working with and learning about the annotated bibliography more would come as a big help.  I felt like the due date for this paper was a little soon and I know we had talked about it in class, but it was still one of the more hard assignments I had done.  I was not able to be descriptive enough because I felt like I was just repeating myself in the paper.  Perhaps a conference for each paper could be a suggestion as well.  That way everybody can take their drafts and present them in front of you (Professor DiSarro) and get verbal suggestions instead of the written comments because some people are just verbal learners and need to be told what it is that you're looking for in their paper to make improvement.  Overall, I feel like this has been a very educational and beneficial semester of English.  I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much if I had a different professor.  Keep up the great work Professor DiSarro.