English 212

Introduction Hello all, we are to the point of the semester where I will be saying goodbye. I started this blog since it was a necessary assignment for my English class, and you have been able to see the variety of assignments that we have completed over the past 14 weeks from my perspective. However, now that we are at the end, I will no longer be updating this blog as I will be moving into my summer break where I will have a job and will be focusing on experiencing life to the fullest. As I am no longer going to be updating this, I would like to reflect on my experiences with this course and how it changed me. Reflection This English class was very different to the other English classes I have taken in the past. A big focus in this class had been the different parts of writing from normal such as the exigence of the text, so why should the reader care about the topic. For that essay I spoke about BookTok and how it promotes overconsumption, so I included facts about the environmental...

Intro In my English class we have spent a great deal of time working with and analyzing AI writing. This is because my teacher acknowledges that AI is being implemented into our lives, so we may as well try and learn how it can be beneficial rather than ignore it. Before this class I never used AI writing services outside of the editor functions of Word or Google Docs but now I find AI showing up in my life in unexpected ways. With my computer that I got just last year, my automated search engine is Microsoft Start and when I input a search, it automatically comes up with an answer to my inquiry with Copilot off to the side. From my examinations the answers tend to be a conglomeration of the information from the first page of search results, with links included, but this is not a feature I am used to. There is also the rising issue of AI or machine created art and images which are passed off as human created, even if it would be physically impossible. Machine generated writing and art ...

Intro  This week in my English class, individually each of us created a wiki page on our class canvas, then we were supposed to go through and edit and link ours to others. A wiki page is an informative page that allows for collaborative discussion, users can create, edit, and delete information on an interlinked page. In an article about wiki pages, the author Zach LeBar mentions that because of the collaborative editing that wikis allow for, they are very different to other types of websites, but it is extremely powerful to utilize. As a normal consumer of media, you most likely have never created your own wiki page before, neither had I until this assignment, but you can recognize that a common wiki is Wikipedia. While the collaborative editing for wikis is powerful in every sense of the word, it has led to Wikipedia having a poor reputation as an uncredible source due to the free editing nature of these pages. For my class, we were not required but strongly encouraged to create...