Course Reflection Essay

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Course Reflection Essay

I have learned a great many things about the method of communication in the process of taking this course. Most of the stuff was learned during the writing of different kinds of essays, such as essays on the Study, Examination, Visual Rhetorical Analysis, and during the classes we had. The essays helped me to learn and to understand the impact of the various English forms and techniques and to make people feel and think in different techniques. Our classroom lessons have led me to think of the roots of our language and why so many words are so. One of our key criteria in our essay report was that since our paper is composed of 2 predicament sources, we ensure that there is no bias in the way anything was stated.

At first, I had believed that this would be no trouble, because I had chosen a politically controversial topic, and I never was a political person and had no strong views on this issue. But I was surprised to find that avoiding prejudgment was not as straightforward as I initially expected, as I began typing the actual article. While I didn’t have strong views on this issue, since I described one side’s stance, my descriptive word choice proved to be a sign of my support for that side. This incident underlined the connection between description and partiality for me and how the two can be related. I wanted to select my terms in my daily life more carefully to express what I feel more specifically.

Our essay on visual rhetoric analysis involved an overview of a media source, conclusions, and explanations of the technological and literary instruments used in the source. I wrote an essay on a New Zealand Government advertisement to increase road caution. Two vehicles are going to a crash in this ad and time slows down just before the failure and first of all, remember the incorrect behavior that caused the occurrence. In the course of my study, I found several small things, such as color variations, the time of day the marketing was put in, and the items around the cars were placed. Every little, minute detail has certain importance that adds value to the entire infomercial.

For instance, there were darker colors around the edge of the advertising. These darker colors give the viewer a sense of foreboding and a sense of fear, as certain colors evoke various emotions in individuals, according to many psychological studies. Things like death, plague, and misery have been linked to black and other dark shades, and as a result, when seen, people appear to feel uncomfortable. For me, the impact that this small color shift might have on the way a human mind perceives the ad was eye-opening. It taught me that subtle forms of interaction could be just as powerful, if not more as overtones. On the roots of language was one of the most memorable lessons we had in university. During our class, one girl asked where the word “ain’t” came from after Professor Birdwell asked if we had any questions. Our professor explained that the words are not and are not fused into one word at some stage during the growth and development of the English language, which became the word “ain’t” after years of being shortened. This got me thinking about the roots of certain words and how they came to be in the English language.

I think it’s interesting how a language can merge words and drop words after years of being used and alter the meanings of whole phrases simply because of the community in which it is used. My interest in the roots of English was certainly piqued by this lesson, and I intend to further investigate this issue. I was stunned to discover the English class and the many essays I had to write and the lessons I had to learn were different from any English class I have ever had. It taught me new things about language legitimately and made me understand how descriptivity affects the tone of a person and how subtle information can impact the mood of a person. I have certainly felt more successful and insightful than I was inscribing in this class.