Class Reflection

I really enjoyed this class and I feel like I have learned many valuable techniques to better my writing, along with critical ways to view the newsphere.
I thought that the circulation of news was the most interesting subject to learn about because it was something  that I had previously never thought about in-depth.
 I learned a new way of thinking where people actually care about the news. The question "so what's going on the in the news today?" always  struck me as odd/cool because previously I didn't know that people actually cared (This sounds weird but I'm going to go with it).

The most useful course subject was the "author, audience, purpose" lingo of Harris. I'll use this for sure in upcoming papers, but also if I follow a news story I can critically look at how the story is being portrayed and understand that not all the sides of the story are being shown.

I really loved the peer review because previously I never edited any of  my papers after writing them the first time. It was really interesting to see how my peers saw my paper and how they could help me become a better writer.

How I will apply this knowledge beyond this course? I think that writing papers will be easier. And thanks to this class, maybe someday I will come to terms with how the newsphere affects my life.

Thanks for an interesting and fun class!

Claudia