I really enjoyed working on our group projects. When I first read the first prompt, the assignment was different than I had expected. For the duration of the class we had been working on mainly communication theory. While that is important, because after all it is the basis for quite a few larger concepts and issues we will deal with in life (especially for comm majors like me). It was a great to apply what we had learned to real world issues.
I like the fact that we working in groups. I think that working in groups without ever meeting in person was an interesting challenge. It was tough to put a face and personality on our group members, when all we are going on is a name. It was different, yet it was nice to be able to all meet in real time with our hectic schedules, and still produce a very professional and clearly written paper in a matter of days, edit it and discuss it, and turn it in without more than a computer. It is amazing what technology allows students our age to do, and I think we produced a great assignment.
It was neat to analyze things with new ideas and such that we have learned. I will definitely analyze things like news articles and advertisements with a new understanding after learning from our textbook. Sometimes we want to trust ad's and believe that because they are published somewhere major, that they credible. I have learned that this is simply not true. I have not found myself critiquing ad's in major magazines, and I find it fun trying to discover the fallacies.
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