Thursday, December 3, 2009

adventures of english 111


English 111 was an unforgettable experience. The classroom peers where absolutely amazing with fun and laughter every time. For those of you who are going to be taking Mr. Gasparos’ class I warn you now. This class was very time consuming with all of the writing, reading, and video watching that was involved. But when you are done I can guarantee that you will have a greater perspective on life and you will think more open minded. The assignments for this course where not that hard to do, the biggest problem for me was understanding what assignment is due and when. That assignments that we did where as followed: a prospectus essay to start the class off with what your writing abilities are before entering class then their where also a few essays of which were what you believe, a Prospectus for the Argument essay and a rhetorical analysis essay. We as a class also learned the proper way to right a thesis statement and or learn what a thesis statement is. The biggest project for this course is the final argument paper with a presentation that must be about ten minutes long. The project was not that bad I repeat this project was not that bad as long as you chose to write on something that you what to argue about. Last but not least we learned how to right a works cited page correctly to enable us to give credit to the sources that are used to write a research paper.
From what I gathered in this class Mr. Gasparo tries to accommodate everyone by allowing a freedom of choice in the writing assignments. He is also trying to see if you the student will come out of your shell and do something creative. At the beginning of this course the prof. asked each one of us to tell him was we expect from this course. As a result a resume and cover letter was added to the assignments for the semester, because most did not know how to write one. Although we did not go over exactly how to write a resume and cover letter in class, the prof. did however give precise instructions on how to improve it immensely after turning in the assignment.
Another thing to think about is if you are looking for an instructor that is easy to get alone with but will push you then this is the guy. But if you are one of those people that waits until the last minute then this course is defiantly not for you. The biggest complaint that I have was, other then writing an email to him, or to show up during off hours in the campus library. There was no other means to communicate outside of class. And I personally don’t check my e-mail every day nor have the ability to sit in front of a computer everyday or have the ability to get to the library during his free time. So I personally feel that lack to communication services was a major struggle with me and the hopeful success in this course.
All in all this course was defiantly one of the better courses that I have taken here at tidewater and I have been taking classes here for over three years. I would highly recommend this instructor for this course at anytime.

1 comment:

  1. I'd love to have a phone number so students could call when TCC decides I can have an office. I agree that this is an issue.

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