Final Week, Question #3

One concept that have stuck with me throughout the semester even though we've learned about a handful of them would have to be how to determine whether or not an argument was valid/invalid, and strong/weak. For some reason, this seems to be the one thing that sticks out the most to me, I think partly because of how confusing it all was to me in the beginning. Unlike some of the easier terms, where I read about and got right away, I had to do some additional questioning and research to fully understand this one. I believe that this was the most confusing to me because sometimes it was hard to determine whether or not an argument is valid, invalid, strong or weak due to the premises given to us. Some of the premises seemed to counter with each other, thus making it a bit hard to understand. Even though this caused me the most trouble in learning, it stuck to my brain like glue. Now, if someone were to ask me how to determine of an argument or conclusion are any of those things, I would have no trouble explaining to them how to determine this.

Final Week, Question #2

The one thing that I absolutely loved about this class would have to be meeting with some of my classmates in person. Although one or two of us didn't exaclty get along at first, we all have learned to cooperate and get on each other's good side after meeting again a few times after. I know that being enrolled in an online class means not seeing your professor nor classmates, but I thought it was really nice to meet some of them in real life, especially the ones that I got along with great! It made doing the group projects super fun, a lot easier, and a lot less stressful. Despite that fact however, the main thing that I didn't really like about this course was how we had to post our blogs a certain number of hours apart. Although I get the professor's reasons for having this rule upon us, it was really inconvenient at times when I have somewhere to go or something to do. Also, it was a lot harder to maintain the blog than I thought it would be, mainly because of the same reason. Sometimes, I would forget all about blogging until the last minute, and the certain number of hours apart rule would make me miss out on one or two blogs, therefore deducting my weekly discussion participation points, which was not a good thing. Overall, I thought this course was fun, and kept me on my toes sometimes. It was a lot harder to earn an A than I thought, but I'm glad I had to work for my grade. Thanks Professor Carol!

Final Week, Question #1

From this class, I've learned many interesting terms and concepts. These concepts include the different types of leaderships, fallacies, and many more. Without this class, I don't think I would ever look into these concepts even if I passed by it through a reading or if someone mentioned it to me. Yet because we were required each week to not only read our two textbooks, but to post blogs to analyze and discuss each of these terms, I was able to understand them very well. In addition to that, I think our professor did a great job in reinforcing that we've fully understood these concepts by giving us links and exercises to participate in. I like how she also further explained these concepts in her own way for most (not every) week. Those chunks of information given to us did clarify some of the confusion I had with a few concepts along the way throughout the semester. I really liked how informative this class was. I feel like these terms were somewhat of list of vocabulary words we had to learn in English classes a few years back, and how they would come into play if we were to ever discuss the matters of communication. I also liked the fact that not all of these terms are useless, and that we didn't just learn them to get an A in the class. These terms are relative to real life and how we live everyday because it has to do with communication, and a majority of us communicate every day of our lives. Therefore, the things we've learned and practiced throughout the course can be of great use and help when we're struggling with communication or having trouble expressing ourselves.