{"id":150,"date":"2016-06-06T06:59:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T06:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ghonig\/?p=150"},"modified":"2016-06-06T06:59:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T06:59:48","slug":"wrapping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ghonig\/2016\/06\/06\/wrapping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"maxresdefault<\/a>Now that my Critical Thinking and Writing course is coming to an end, I’d like to take a moment and reflect on the year. I will not hide the fact that I was not excited to begin another English course during winter quarter. The reason why I was not excited was because I had always struggled in my writing courses through high school, and I just assumed writing was something I would never be good at.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, Ms. Lueck’s class changed my thinking about writing. I began to think of writing as an avenue to get my thoughts out to the world, as opposed to thinking of writing as just another analysis of a book. Now I felt that I could actually write with a purpose, and that purpose being to share my opinion with my audience. The book she had us purchase during winter quarter titled\u00a0They Say; I Say<\/em> provided me with useful templates and techniques that I could use to effectively display my thoughts through writing.<\/p>\n

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My hope is that the information I learned from this CTW course will aid me in writing successful papers for future courses I have. Also, one of my main interests in life is politics regarding America, and I am optimistic that down the road the lessons I learned from this CTW class will help me if I ever want to write a piece about the political environment in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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