Interviewee Guide

English 302-H07

Spring Semester '09

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   1. What led to you to enroll in an online English course? What do you hope to gain from it?

      I believe that an online English course would be easier for me, especially in my disabled position. It would be easier for me to communicate with hearing people efficiently and readily.

      I hope to unlock some creative writings in my mind, and try to be less technical in writing. I also want to be challenged.. over and over, the better.

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         1. What, if any, online study have you completed previously? What did you consider its strengths and weaknesses as compared to classroom instruction?

            I took C++ class last year. Unfortunately, I didn't finish it completely. First half of the semester, I did so well, finishing all first half. Second half, however, I lost motivation and interests completely.

            The strengths are communication and logical, organized follow-through timing. The weaknesses seem to be colossal compared to strengths. Distractedness, loss of motivation, lagging behind, and loss of desire to complete.

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               1. What is your major? How could you use the activities in this course to help you in your major and/or career goals? (This question is especially important if you are not majoring in the humanities even though this is a humanities section.)

                  I am majoring in Administration of Justice. Although I have not quite decided on a minor. English 302 would help me blast off beyond Admin. Of Justice 300, in which Advanced Composition is a requirement. Also, humanities section would definitely boost my thoughts on societal sociology, as well as the rules of sociology of cyberspace that will be of a great significant to ADJ community.

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                     1. What strengths do you see in your writing and research skills? What areas would you like to improve? Why?

                        I consider my creative writing as strengths, and my ability to cloud the research in one way or other way around. In short, I like to construct a layer of arbitrariness in any research that I might find. It is very much like Washington Post, which is usually well balanced.

                        I would like to improve my .. certain dilemma. When I write a long-term paper, my writing become a little too technical, scientific, or the like. That is my greatest barrier; I need to get past the conscious abyss. I suppose that I think this way because I want to be a great writer. I consider my "too-technical" writing a preventive tool that seems to keep pull my hands away from reaching a greater audience. I think some 99% of audience is scientifically illiterate.

                        That is why I want to overcome the great wall. That might take years or months; I hope that English 302 and latter classes would get me there at the top of the Everest mountain.

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                           1. Evaluate both your interests and your skills in distance activities: e-mail, web page construction, internet research, chat/online conferencing, web board posting, formatting academic papers in e-mail, or any other skills you consider important

                              I am very much skilled in internet research, as well as computer-building. I could do web page construction, but I have lost in that specific interest recently in few years.

                              My foremost skilled in doing is to disassemble the depth of politics and news. I can do any research, really, in the full circle. It could hardcore scientific one, or religious one. My research skills are very flexible on that, for my arguments and reasonings are also a strong element/factor.

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                                 1. What is your present online persona--that is, what personality traits do you display in online chat, blogs, discussion boards or e-mail? Since you will be conferencing online with other students and the instructor, as well as participating in virtual writing groups, what adjustments might you need to make in order to be productive and helpful in these activities?

                                    That is a little difficult. When it comes to social network, Facebook or like, I tend to be... extra cautionary in what I say. Social network users these days are a little defensive.

                                    Discussion boards are different. I like to help and answer, and I really like to babble my mouth off. I think I would need to adjust on that one and try to minimize. I also would need to log out some certain sites, like Facebook, so I can be focused as much as I can.

                                    Email is a little too.. formal for me, I always have had this mental thing about emails. I suppose it's because email is an individual, therefore much like formal mail.