Title: Journal Writing# 1
Author: Korantemaa Adoo
Last saved by: Rachel
Company: Penn State University

Reflective Journal Writing 1			                              Rachel Tricarico

Journal 1
I.	My Assessment of my own learning progress    

  The past four weeks I have learned a lot about everything that has to do with speech and the speech process. The one of the subjects that we talked about that I really learned something new was writing transitions. I wasn’t used to writing transition sentences and I learned how to do it and I realize that it really helps connect the sentences and the subjects in the speech. I also learned about all the different types of speeches and what they are used for like narrative, informative, or oratorical. I also learned about the technology available to us in this class that we can use in our speech which is very helpful when we are presenting our speeches.  Such as YouTube videos, power points, statistics and tables these things help us convey our ideas in our speech to be most effective. 
II.	How relevant or valuable and how can you make use of things learned into your 
       personal, academic or career endeavors?
Speech in general is an important subject that needs to be mastered in the real world for so many reasons. I want to become a doctor and communication is going to be very important when I deal with patients and staff. I also want to be involved in research science so I need to know how to present my ideas in an organized manner so I can convey my new discovers to the public. 

III.	Factors that enabled or caused poor learning

A.	Personal Factors that that contributed to my learning

     I think an important factor in learning in this class is atteneding class when there is class and I have done pretty good job of that. I also ask question when I don’t understand something and participate in class so that helps with my learning process because I have reall big fears about speaking in public. 

B.	Instructional Factors
The power points are very helpful and I like that they are all on angel so I don’t have to spend most of the class writing notes so I can listen. I like that you break eb=verything down so when it comes to writing the speech you don’t have a lot to do.