Youngjun's Eng 1101 Blog

 As a student, this class has been exceptionally beneficial in terms of academic writing. As a high school student, it was a new opportunity to learn new components of writing and implementing them into my own. It taught me in what ways high school writing and college writing can be different. Outside of writing, using Google applications such as Blogger and Google Chat has also been a new technological experience for me. I was initially struggling on how to utilize the applications, but at the end, I feel more comfortable with these Google extensions. However, personally, the most important thing I have learned in this class was the use of Gemini. Before this class, because I was taught to not use AI at all in my high school, I did not know the existence of Gemini. At the end, I learned that AI is not all bad and that it provides great assistance when it comes to writing and getting broad information. The least important thing I learned in this class was... to be honest, I really ...

 As a current high school student myself, I can personally tell you in detail on how my English classes are like at my school compared to this class that I am taking right now through dual enrollment. I think the biggest difference for me was the use of AI. In high school, teachers often strictly prohibit the use of AI in any means. However, in college, especially this class, I feel like the restrictions are much more loose and Professor. Hamon does an amazing job in providing us with the freedom to use assistance from Gemini, which I have had great help from personally. Another difference is the type of style the students use in their academic writing. As Kate would say, "writing in various academic and professional contexts needs to be more flexible, sophisticated, and subtle than writing for high school English classes. In college, you should start using first-person pronouns in your formal academic writing, where appropriate" (Maddalena, 180). Like this, high school stude...

It was interesting to see how Janet Boyd prompted the reader to do a certain task and then predicted how the reader would react. When talking about the detective scenario, she asks the question "how did you know how to write like a detective would in the first place?" (89). This surprised me as I thought of the same answer she predicted, and it created a rhetorical situation that convinced me to agree her claim that was supported later, "When you write an academic paper, you are practicing how to use the jargon you have internalized through studying that discipline as you write for professors and students within that field" (89). She utilized a scenario to develop a rhetoric and to prove myself that using certain ways to express the meaning is what a rhetoric should be.                                                             ...

 In the essay "Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic?" by Rebecca Jones, she quotes what non-quality arguments often miss "is research, consideration of multiple vantage points, and, quite often, basic logic" (Jones, 158). Using extensive research, I will provide why electrical engineering is a prominent major that pre-college students should consider taking from creditable sources with factual evidence to support my argument. One of the claims I will support is that electrical engineering can be applied to many different fields and that there is barely no place that does not use electricity. For multiple vantage points, I will explain how electrical engineering can be applied from different varying jobs, from aerospace to working in the medical field. Basic logic is naturally applied in the fact that we as people use electricity for everything such as using the phone, traveling, or just simply turning on the lights.             ...