Blog #13 for 5/7 Oscar R.

 The entire text book "Writing Together" was extremely informative and important. Heavy emphasis on important for various reasons. As a student in general, I was able to learn a lot about writing and just "scholarly tips" in general. As a future educator, this kind of like our "bible" in a sense. One of my career goals would be to teach at the community college level someday and teach an online class. My whole life, I always labeled online courses as "easy" through both a teacher's and student's perspectives. This text book along with these last past two semesters have taught me that online courses are anything but easy. They are difficult, stressful, time consuming, and draining. Yes they are more accessible at times and can be fun but for the most part they are difficult in all aspects. I labeled this text book as the "bible" for online teachers because it has so much important information, advice, ideas, and guidance in it. This is a textbook that I will need to keep on my bookshelf till the end of times especially if I plan to teach an online course. There is so much time and energy but into online courses by both the students and the teachers. I am glad that Dr. Cauthen chose this text for us because it really helped understand learn much more and it truly opened my eyes and made me think about things I had not previously thought about. I was also thinking about how difficult this class has been in terms of catching up on blogs, journal entries and the long readings, but this textbook made me realize how hard it must be on our professors as well. They need to curate the course content, choose the readings, keep up with weekly announcements, keep up with gradings, and deal with so much. So congratulations to everyone in here! To both us, the students, and Dr. Cauthen for a successful and effective course and semester!! Good luck to everyone on their future endeavors!!!! You all got this!

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