English 1006 G
December 2013

• Yes it has helped me.
• Not really. I only read enough to formulate the most basic response, and just get it over with. I would care more if we were actually being marked on something or if we wrote something that actually had a purpose.
• It has definitely helped me develop my skills when writing clearly and persuasively.
• Writing so that everyone can see it really isn't how I like to be marked. It is changing how I write because I am being more aware of what I write, and taking more care of the ideas that I put out there for people to read. I'd say it is changing it, which is helping it in the process.
• Not really, ive always had a unique writing style and seeing other peoples writing has not affected my own.
• Yes it is definitely helping and changing the way I read. It has helped me to consider other peoples opinions and help me understand how others think aswell.
• Yes, it is making me think deeper into stories that I read and I'm getting used to writing for an audience
• Yes, it's make me think more clearly before I write something instead of just spewing nonsense.
• It makes me take my time when writing and I tend to re-read what I wrote.
• Well, I tend to be scatterbrained when I write, so, knowing that there would be other people reading what I've written, it has taught me how to focus my work into sectioned pieces. Actually, I've been able to cross this over to a History term paper I wrote, which I received a 95% on, and I believe that it owe it completely to what I've learned in this class.
• I do enjoy the interaction we get when we read other peoples' writing, and sometimes it enlightens me in ways that I couldn't have done on my own, but I find sometimes doing almost the same activity every class can get a little redundant
• Yes it helps me see others opinions and perspectives which help me write replies and have a more thorough thought process
• Well, in order for it to help us our writing would need to change. For me it helps because I get a sense of what I should be doing and what I shouldn't be doing by reading what other have written. It does make me a bit self conscious about how people will read my writing and how they will think of me after but apart from that it is helpful.
• It is changing how I write and read because I know look for any sort of biases while reading, I seek to try and understand what the author is talking about instantly, and try and pick up on any biblical, historical, or modern day relevance's to make connections about what the story is about. Is what the author is saying interesting? Why or why not? What is the author really saying? I also look for hidden racial or stereotypical messages, and try to understand the perspective from the author's viewpoint, and explain why I believe it is right/wrong/bias/unbiased. When I write, I hope my audience doesn't feel absolutely just flabbergasted by what I have to say.
• Yes, it makes me choose my words more carefully.
• Absolutely, because knowing other people will read and 'judge' my work puts on pressure on yourself to write better as you do not want to embarrass yourself or sound stupid. Hence, it indeed pushes me to write better and look into the readings more instead of just reading it to just read.
• Yes it is
• I find that it is helping because i get to see how other people interpret certain things.
• I do believe that this method is very simple, but I believe that it is not only reading that teaches me things, but the discussions we have in class.

• Yes because w/o it I wouldn't have learned certain things.
• Group discussions do not help me learn. I often ignore what the group members are saying, or bring up topics completely unrealated to school at all. The discussions in this class are usually very basic, and as soon as the work is completed the groups usually don't discuss anything further than they have to.
• Discussion has promoted my own learning by opening my mind to the different points of view and information noted by other people of different backgrounds in the class.
• I think that seeing how other students write, and how they structure their written responses has helped me because I realize the flaws that are in my writing. Discussing things out loud has really helped me learn how other people think, which makes me change the way I approach certain situations in class discussions later on.
• none
• Yes, it has also helped me to understand other peoples opinions and sometimes that we must think outside the box.
• Yes by comparing my answers to others.
• I'd say it has, I can't really explain how though.
• The discussions in class have helped me better understand what we are doing and helps me see a different point of view from others.
• I found that some of the discussions in class became what seemed to be miniature debates, where people fired off whatever came to their mind first. I personally think that because the discussions force people to say whatever comes to mind first, everything seems more genuine. So, yes, it has promoted my learning, because I'm working to transfer those genuine qualities to my own work.
• I do enjoy the discussion, but I think we could find a more interesting way to do it. Perhaps a big talking circle and maybe more controversial or interesting topics
• yes we seem to help opinions and perspectives to be heard that normally wouldnt be heard if it was just give me a response. you cant shy away
• Yes, I suppose it has. I haven't participated much because I find some of the people a bit intimidating with their knowledge. It does help me to think of ideas I may not have thought of before.
• It has promoted my own learning because I find myself reading things aloud to my roommates (brother and boyfriend) and it has strengthened my voice and what I have to say. I also do not want to look foolish speaking out in front of the class so I like knowing what I'm talking about.
• It promotes me to think about other peoples ideas much more.
• Personally, I think so yes, because after handing in your work in, you are not sure what it compares to. Hence, when we talk in class, and people put their input on certain things, it really makes you open up to other perspectives. Then the next time you go to write, you become more vigilant to what you write and more ope to different ideas.
• "Yes
• By exposing me to new ideas and opinions."
• I enjoy listening to the people that talk, but i do not like to talk infront of the class, i am a bit shy.
• It has, because this is where I believe I learned the most because, it is where I am able to see different point of views; therefore, if open minded you can learn, so much from others.

• I learned a lot more about them than I would have on my own.
• These texts have taught me some about writing. I learned that looking into all possible meanings of the text is important.
• It was helpful in the way that the texts were all different, but still all interesting. I liked finding patterns and similarities, as well as the differences when comparing the texts, using new found skills to further analyze the next texts.
• I feel that looking at the three pieces of writing have helped me realize that there are different ways to look at writing and how it can be viewed and understood. It has helped me better understand any other piece of writing that I have read.
• not very helpful, the text is not interesting. if the text was interesting it would captivate us more.
• It has helped me understand that there can be hidden meanings behind stories and that everyone may not be presented up front. Sometimes thinking deeper may help readers understand the piece of text more throughly.
• Usually most english classes involve solely shakespeare play but this is a change and I like it.
• I found that the use of the play "Private Lives" was helpful as it showed that literature truly can have a different meaning depending on the context.
• I think it has been very helpful, but, if anything, I do wish we reviewed more larger texts, such as passages from a book. I believe we could have done with more classical pieces, such as short Shakespeare passages. I also wish that we had covered song lyrics to a relatively meaningful song at least once, just to see everyones input on it.
• Those activities did help me and didn't mind doing them
• i dont really enjoy this as i like to read something as a whole as i get confused only reading bits and pieces and even reading one scene of a play.
• This is something I don't find I'm very good at, I would much prefer to be writing essays and reading novels, but I do see how this is effective. It does make you think of why something is written as it is.
• It has been helpful with me on many levels, most of which include the language I use when I write, how descriptive I am in my writing, and writing down what it is I'm exactly trying to say. It has definitely strengthened my vocabulary as well.
• It has been pretty helpful as they were different types of literature. For me, having English as a second language, really helps as I got to explore different literature types, and it showed more how certain authors purposely place certain things in certain places and they really think about what they write.
• It has been helpful as it showed me new texts and helped understand how language works.
• I believe, that it is through different types and ways of languages, that we read and evaluate, that we learn the most out of, because it is a form of perceptive learning; thus, this is where we see and reproduce. This process, is us trying to become better writers. By reproducing good writing we learn form it and, also become better at it. In other words reproducing good and different types of work helps me, because I learn from it.

• I don't think we need as many assignments as we have every class.
• The minimum mark system is extremely irritating. Even though I had above the minimim for the highest mark, I still only had a B. For students who depend on a high gpa for scholarships this marking system is the worst thing for us. We work hard on our assignments and get the same mark as someone who does the bare minimum.
• In some ways, yes it does, because it motivates people to come to class and do the assignments. My worry is that some do the bare minimum of the assignment. As well, while they are not always incredibly difficult of challenging to complete, there are a lot of tasks, and missing one has a disappointing effect on one's grades.
• I think that the way that you mark the class is extremely fair and reasonable. Doing oral and written small assignments is beneficial for everyone, to stay on task and stay focused in class and outside of class.
• not at all, I find them rather tedious, if anything I would much rather 4-5 actual assignments due throughout the semester such as in my other classes.
• Yes it is easy to complete the assignments because they are short and simple. This was helpful for me because I was able to complete most of the assignments on time.
• "Yes it has big time, I'd much rather do short assignments then long ones
• Yes it helps, but I found that something bad about it is that if you miss one assignment, prompt, that you wouldn't be able to complete the next 3 because you were not part of a discussion you missed.
• I do like how we discuss things and do assignments for marks, but I would stay more engaged if we switched things up a bit. As I said before perhaps more controversial or interesting articles would help keep my attention. I do like the way the class is taught and how everything counts for marks though
• yes but also when an assignment is given out during class and youve been excused you should still get time after youve come back to do the assignment yes the prompts are up but you as a professor explain things better once weve quickly read over the prompt
• I do like that as long as we did the work we get marks because if it was solely based on how well we did it I'm not sure I'd be doing so well.
• It definitely helps because I often get side tracked and forget to do what is asked, and try to scramble in what I have to say for I feel it's important. I do this with any assignment because I feel that I deserve marks for everything I do because regardless of whatever is going on in my personal life, I always try to put my best foot forward and attend classes.
• No I do not think that counting completed tasks and using them as a minimum mark in a way that I do not really think it is a fair way to mark people's intelligence. Sometimes, some people don't have time to do a response on sunday night but maybe will have time on monday. Then, just because they could not accomplish this 'assignment' they get less of a record which means a lower mark.
• Yes. It motivates me to complete my work
• I believe that because there are so many short assignments, this is what makes us give up after a while, and forget the importance of these, if there where a bit longer and less often I believe that attention could be kept better. Also I believe that using only these assignments to create a mark is not the best of the ideas, because like I said earlier the fact that there is too many small assignments people loose interested, and the importance of the assignments; therefore, the mark can discourage some people.

• yes it has.
• I can clearly see how my writing is weaker than others, but that doesn't motivate me to become a better writer because I get the same mark as them. Why put in extra effort if I don't have to?
• This absolutely has helped me to improve my own work. I no longer hold my work to my own standards, but to the standards of my classmates, and the general consensus of which writings are the best. Even if they weren't the best, if I find they held an aspect I had forgotten or left out, I try to include it next time.
• Yes, I strongly believe that seeing how and what types of things other students write, it has helped me to improve my own work.
• Yes it has helped me improve my own work. Observing how others write and express their opinions allowed me to compare my work with theirs. This has helped me improve my writing skills immensely.
• Yeah it really has.
• Yes it has , I usually always compare my work to others to see what everyone else has done and how they felt about something to see how my opinion would relate.
• This process has showed me that despite my writing skills, I do have a long ways to go. Comparing my work to others gives me new insights on stories and pieces that we've reviewed that I did not previously see. If anything, comparing work with others has improved my critical thinking.
• I haven't compared my work to others
• yes
• It has helped me get a clearer idea to improve my writing because it made me realize that when I said something, I had to make it sure when I made powerful statements I had evidence (theory, opinion, facts, etc.) to back up whatever I was stating.
• Yes, a lot actually. As I've said, it made me push more with my writing and made me see different perspectives. It made me think more outside the box type of thing. Having other peoples perspectives made want to make my writing better as well.
• Yes.
• Not really, because I feel like there should be someone telling us exactly, what is wright and wrong, because I can find that something is great in my opinion and compare my thing to theirs, but they can be completely incorrect.

• I think a better relationship between the students of each group would work better. There are people who are very outspoken, those who are shy, and those who don't care, and they will constantly fall into these categories unless they are comfortable with the people they are interacting with.
• Being put into groups for discussion has helped, however I feel that in order to get the response that you want from EVERYONE in the class, you could consider letting us choose our own groups, that way people will actually feel comfortable talking about their views with people that they know.
• It has some-what improved my learning. However, I think that having group discussions every class may be too much and distracting sometimes. People who are shy struggle with this idea as well.
• yes it has, it'd be nice to be able to choose our own groups though.
• Yes it has, the only thing I'd say is that simply some people are not a pleasure to work with, and that's not your fault at all and there isn't really anything that can be done about that.
• I feel like this didn't have quite the desired affect. That is to say, in some cases it was nice to work amongst others, but, at other times, I do wish we got the chance to work alone, just to see how much we could do on our own.
• Again, I think this could be a very helpful and fun learning tool, but I also think we're using the wrong types of material, and sometimes over analyzing the same piece
• yes it gets people who wouldnt normally be involved be involved in class discussions. we could also have feedback from each responce from our professor
• It has helped my learning, but it could be improved in the sense that literally everything was done online, and I don't have internet at my mom's house or my own apartment, so it was hard for me to balance my personal life, my house work, and my school work all at once without internet.
• Yes actually showing examples and being to discuss what I think with other people has helped me see and realize certain things such as different ideas and different things I hadn't noticed before. I can't really think of a way to improve.
• Yes it has
• This process has helped me quite a bit, because it is during that process that people start to speak about what they think about it, and their opinions. ( I do not know how it could be improved)

• I learned a lot this term, and they were in ways and on subjects I didn't realise I needed to learn or improve on. Thanks!
• Those questions cover basically everything about the course that you would need feedback for.
• try to not use prompts for every class, small assignments are tedious and often get pushed aside and forgotten because of much larger assignments due in other classes.
• This course is structured very differently than a typical English course. It helps you improve your writing skills by allowing others to view your writing and observing how others write as well. The group discussions help you view other people's opinions and share your own with them.
• I really like the short assignments that we do weekly rather than long assignments every now and then.
• The only thing I would suggest although it could just be my misunderstanding of the word, I fell like if the learning reflection is optional it shouldn't take away from a grade by not completing it, not that I have a problem with people not receiving marks for not doing it, I just feel like it shouldn't be labelled as optional, because in that sense all the work we do is "optional". But besides that really I enjoy the class a lot and I love the setup.
• I love the way the class is taught and how a lot of our activities are independant, and how everything we do counts for marks, however we do similar things every day and it can get boring. If we looked at different material or perhaps had a debate or a huge class discussion with a talking stick or something, I think that could help keep our interest and enthusiasm levels up.
• i think we need more consequences for uncompleted tasks and maybe the professor sending out an email to the student on missing assignments that we could have done but something happened as we use the internet fro most assignments
• Well, like I said before, I'm the type of person who would rather be writing essays and reading novels, poems and plays because that is what I'm comfortable with. I'm not a very open person, I don't like to talk in front of crowds of people I don't know so that's another aspect not well suited for me about this class. I'm also very private and hate that people can look at my writing and know it was me who wrote it, especially since I have seen a lot of people be very critical about spelling mistakes or say nasty things about some peoples ideas. I do enjoy the class though.
• What I think you should know is that I do think doing prompts help and are a good marking way, but I think making sunday the deadline for most of them is too early, monday night would be perfect. Also, I think being open to other peoples ideas and opinions would help as well. Sometimes, what you think won't be what we as a class think.
• I do not believe that there is anything else.