Activity 1: Setting up Your Blog
Assignment 1: First Blog Post
Should grade 12 University level English be a requirement for entry into all university programs?
If students aren't prepared to write thousands of words for an essay would we succeed? If students can't fully grasp concepts from the lecture is the homework going to be possible? If students can't communicate their opinions clearly and effectively, do our opinions even matter? If students were allowed to somehow not to an English credit because it's not a prerequisite for their program would that truly prepare us for post-secondary?
The answer to all of these questions is no; so the answer to the original question has to be yes.
In my opinion, university level English should be a requirement for all university programs because the credit prepares graduates well for the following year in post-secondary as well as in every-day life.
English is a versatile course, it is used in almost every credit (unless of course, you're taking French or Spanish). Students need to be able to communicate, comprehend and collaborate with others by sharing their ideas. These skills aren't confined to the English classroom, they can be applied to many classes. A lab report demands concise explanations, a machine manual requires a patient reader and to comprehend almost any textbook, the reader must summarize and interpret the key points. All of these skills will not only help us in many courses but are a catalyst for success once we arrive at the university level classroom as well.
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| Skills like summarizing and comprehension are applicable t many courses such as manufacturing or workshop when working with machinery, the student must understand the user manual. |
Beyond the classroom, the skills mentioned are applicable and necessary for everyday life. Newspapers, advertisements, articles or even social media posts are competing for out literary attention. This means that we must, as students comprehend what we read but analyze the truth that is most often hiding behind public words. We must also be prepared to speak about or perhaps defend our opinion to others and this roots back to the oral presentation and debates that are done in an English course. We must present ourselves using our words like for an interview or scholarship essay. At the end of the day, if you can't communicate well, speaking or through words and if you can't comprehend other people's words, it is going to be hard to interact wit other people or understand what other's are trying to say to you.
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| In our daily lives, we are bombarded with media, advertisements, and posts so students ned to apply our classroom skills in order to analyze these texts who commonly mask the truth |
