Lots of Blogging + Little English = Too Much Frustration

By KatieVann on February 25, 2008 4:38 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

         Introduction to Literary Study hasn't exactly been what I was expecting. I was prepared for this course to help me better understand how to read and interpret literature and how to become a better writer. Instead, I feel more confused about English now more than ever and I'm debating on whether I should change my major. I'm sorry I'm complaining so much, but I honestly don't feel like I'm learning much from this course. I've learned how to blog, but little else (and most of the time I can't even blog correctly). I'm more confused and frustrated with English than I ever was before I walked into this class.

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A Few of My Own Comments

        Overall, even though this far I am disappointed with how this course is going so far, I'm still hoping that things will soon take a turn for the better. Today in class, Dr. Jerz said that those students who were not putting their entire selves into the assignments and were just doing them because they had to, needed to change. Well, I'm one of those students. I have forced myself through every assignment in this class, including this one. Even though I have kept up with most of my assignments, I procrastinated completing this one just because I didn't want to reflect on how frustrated I've been so far. I hope that by the time I reach the end of this course, I can look back on this portfolio and wonder why I thought a course like this could ever be as miserable as I originally had thought.

Missed Assignments

 

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Dennis G. Jerz said:

I'm glad to see you are talking about your frustrations, rather than bottling them up. It's normal to feel frustrated from time to time, especially when a class is pushing you out of your comfort zone.

We all have different learning strategies, and it may just be that the mix of teaching strategies that I use just doesn't contain enough of what you need to feel confident and productive. But I'd be happy to meet with you during my office hours to discuss upcoming readings and/or general strategies for reading literature.

Would it help to organize a study group, so that you and a few classmates could talk about the readings sometime before class?

February 25, 2008 11:34 PM

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