hybrid english.....

Drexel's hybrid English class so far has been really differnt than other English courses in high school. In past English courses in high school, we were required to read a book and discuss it in class. This course is more about writing and strengthening our writing than knowing about every element of a book. . We used to detail personification, similes, symbolism and random literary techniques to detail a paper in prior English courses. In English 101, we actually learn how to form arguments in our writing and improve upon it. The Allyn and Bacon book changed my perspective on writing like it says to take account of the audience. Also the details about ethos and pathos where a reader will only know the details a writer outlines and that sometimes some information is omitted or added for a reason. When I wrote essays I never took this into account because I usually just wrote the five paragraph essays that never took much thought because they were all about persuading someone to one view or outlining literary techniques in a book. I usually just wrote what I wanted to get these essays over with as soon as possible just to finish it.

In hybrid English, I like the news article, and how we discussed the article about Facebook. Technically the article was just about facebook, but the writer extended that essay so much to include arguments and it told us, the audience, about more then just Facebook is a networking tool. In class, last week we analyzed a Scooby-Doo cartoon to find arguments within it about the time period. I have never watched Scooby- Doo in an English class before and it made sense of how it would relate to project one. Overall, I am enjoying this year's english course compared to my high school's english courses. I think this course will strengthen my writing abilities through the articles and the Allyn and Bacon book because it uses a different more interesting way to teach English.