Interesting Concepts

There are a lot of interesting concepts in the book. One of the interesting concepts I found in the book is loaded questions. The loaded questions are used a lot in our society. This kind of question are usually used to misguided the claim or as an accusation. The question may be asked in the way to confuse people by making it sound like a claim. For example, why are you always hungry? This make it sound like the person is always eating. He or she might not be hungry but rather, the person may just like to snack through out the day. The question can also be an accusation. For example, do you have to wait until people around you die of lung cancer before you stop smoking? This may seem like a reasonable statement but it is really not. The true is that lung cancer can be from other causes as well.

Favorite

I like a lot of things about this class. First of all, this class is an online class which make it very flexible on the time. I do not have to sit there and work on something during the day. I can choose when I want to take a test, which give me time to prepare myself. So, I think that the flexibility is one of my favorites part of this class. I also enjoy the comments on blog as well. I think that by making comments on other people blog allow me to see what another people think, and get different ideas. However, my least favorite thing in this class is that I never really get the chance to know my classmates. Since on the blog, everyone use an alias name, no one know who the other person is. One thing that this class can improve on is the last group project. I do enjoyed meeting my group members, but due to the fact that this is an online class. It was difficult to set up a meeting time for everyone to meet. I think that maybe in the future, people can do a conference call or webcam even. It was just difficult to agree on a time that everyone is free. However, I really enjoy taking this class, it was a fun experience for me.

New Experience From This Class

Taking this class have show me many new things and ways of thinking. First, the concept of critical thinking in this class is really interesting. Since I am an art major, I have never thought of critical thinking as something that I will use everyday in daily life. The class will also help me to write a better paper and speech in the  future because I am now aware of the reasonings that can be use. The second thing that I have learn from this class is also a communication skill. This is the skill that I have not expected to gain from this class. I have taken one online class before in a community college, I remember that there were no group project or writing on blogs. This class have teach how to actually communicate through an online community with people that I have never talked to or met before. Also how to write a good email. In this day and age, everyone have written an email before but for most of the time, those emails are not formal. This class teaches me how to write a good email and how to communicate through them, even set up the chat room on yahoo messenger as well. So I think that this class have teaches me a lot of things that I did not expect when I enrolled into the class.