What I have learned so far - Neer

I didn't really know what to expect from a class called business communications when the semester started.  I expected if anything it would be boring.  Despite this impression, I have been very impressed with the material we have covered thus far in the semester.  I was born in 1983 which puts me at the very beginning of the millennial generation.  When I graduated high school in 2002, the internet was not really a new thing, but it was something that wasn't trusted by academia at large.  There was very little education regarding how to do things on the internet, like blogging, email, forums etc.  Social media did not exist, at least in its current forms, so the stuff I learned was how to use MS Word, how to format a letter, how to use MS Excel, things like that.  I have been very happy to cover things such as blogging, social media, email, etc.  I have been in the workforce for about 15 years, so many of the topics we cover regarding how to conduct oneself or how to convey a message I am already somewhat familiar with.  I don't mean to imply that I haven't learned anything about how to best conduct myself or how to best convey a message, but many of the ideas I had already considered in my career.  I think for somebody that is new to the workforce or who has not entered it yet, that this class could be the single best one for preparing a person to fit in professionally.  Many of the lessons we have learned I learned by failing in a real scenario.  That failure may be inevitable to truly learn, but this class really provides a great primer for what its like in a typical business workplace.  I also have been grateful for the feedback provided.  In a writing class I took previously, there was very little to no feedback, and in many cases there weren't even timely grades.  I appreciate knowing what i am doing right and what I am doing wrong, so that I know what to focus on.  All in all I think this class is valuable and would recommend it to most, which is something that can't be said for every course.

Walker Neer