Further

The concept that I felt we should have spent a lot more time on was evidence. I feel like this concept is what will win over your audience. With a very weak one, we will not be able to accomplish our goals. We can apply it to everyday situations which is why I believe that this is so important to go in depth on. We learned that there are ways to identify valid and invalid evidence. But we should have gone over which type of evidence should have priority over another type so that we have tactics. Or we also should have gone over how to know if the source of the evidence is reliable. I just feel like its important to have that knowledge of knowing what is the truth or not because we don't want to be living in false facts. Our verbal arguments and even argumentative papers would be much stronger.  

Throughout the Sem

By taking this class I can say I have learned enough when it comes to all the different aspects of arguments and critical thinking. Now when I make an argument, I can create a strong statement if I do it right with the right evidence. Also, to avoid weak arguments I look for fallacies and false evidence. Through these types of knowledge about arguments I am able to write a better argumentaive paper and in general speak out my arguments without someone accusing me of stating false or weak informtation and or opinions. I have also learned a different way to approach the way I think. For example, I am more skilled in critical thinking just because I am now able to approach certain subjects differently with the validity and rationalization techniques. For example, being able to recognize emotions of an argument and decision can alter your perspective of the whole situation. All in all, I have acquired skills that I can use in my everyday life.  

Most and Least Fave

My favorite thing about this communications class has got to be that I get to voice my opinion on most of the questions for each weekly assignment. Every question asked about a certain part of the reading required some personal information that I had fun sharing to fellow classmates. For example, in the earlier assignment that involved advertisements I was able to talk about how the work experience part of my own life pertains to this particular subject. I felt that it was a good way to learn the many concepts. The least favorite thing about this class, in my opinion, was the group assignments in general. Because of my experience, I can say that it is very difficult to meet or even get in contact via email or phone with members of the group. Because of this obstacle, assignments were not done to the group's full capacity which has hurt not only mines, but everyone else's scores as well. Because my group could not get in contact with other group members most of the time, it was hard to unify our assignment so that it sounded like one piece instead of several authors. This difficulty lead to bad grades. To improve this class, I would cancel out all group assignments in general and or require the option of working alone. We would not have to count on availabilities of everyone and how they're performance will affect our assignments.