Final Question #3

I personally liked learning about language. I liked this concept because I learned the different functions of language that I never knew existed before. I honestly thought all functions of language were just combined into a whole. I wanted to learn more about this concept because I think it's important for us to know what kind of language we use in our daily lives. There is informative, expressive, directive, and ceremonial. All of the functions are used on a daily basis by everyone except for ceremonial, because that's more formal, as in saying, "I do" in a marriage ceremony. I thought it was interesting how there are 6,800 known languages in the world, but they all use the same basic universal grammatical rules. This is the only concept that I wish we went  into more detail for because we just touched on it a little bit. Overall, this was a great class and  a great experience, and I would definitely recommend other students to take this course to fulfill their Area C3 for their pre-requisites.

Final Question #2

Taking this class was a great experience. When I signed up for the class, I was confused on how a "small group communications" class was going to be online. I was questioning on how students were going to meet up and do assignments together since we wouldn't know who the other was. Overall, I really liked how this course was with blogging. I would say that it was my favorite part about this course because it was anonymous, so we were able to express ourselves without any judgement88. Writing blogs about the chapters that we read about improved my reading and analyzing skills because it made me really think about what I just read and how it relates to me. As for my least favorite part about this class would probably have to be the fact that since it was an online class, it made it difficult at times to meet up with my group mates for the assignments because everyone had different schedules. I don't think this course needs any improvement because although some students don't do the blogs every week because they forget, it's nobody's fault but theirs because it's their own responsibility.

Final Question #1

Over this semester, I have learned so much about communication and language. I learned from what critical thinking is to errors in thinking to science. It is honestly hard to only name things that I have learned in this course, but one of them is rhetoric. I never even knew what that word meant until I took this course. Now, I know that rhetoric is the ability that is used to inform and promote a particular postion, like persuasion. I've heard the phrase 'rhetorical question', but by definition, that means a question that is used to make a point without the expectation of a response, which is different than rhetoric. I believe that everyone uses this ability in their daily lives. For example, if you're with a group of friends trying to decide where to go to eat and one friend suggests to go get pizza, but you don't want that, you would most likely try persuading your friends to go to another restaurant.