I'll be honest, when I first found out I had to take this class I was kind of frustrated; after passing my English AP's I figured I'd be done with English classes for the rest of my education. But my annoyance couldn't have betrayed me more. I enjoyed this class quite a bit, the environment was great and the work broke up the monotony of my other classes. Project 1 was a nice break from the analytical writing I became used to from my past four years of upper level English classes; it had been a while since I wrote a personal narrative. Project 2 definitely gave me a different view of a research paper than I previously held since this one didn't exactly want a write up of multiple other studies and relating them to a central topic, but it was more about crafting your own information rather than depending on what others have already found. And finally, project 3 was a good way to conclude the string of work for this class. It was easygoing and an enjoyable project that wrapped up a lot of the elements we've learned regarding genre over this past semester. Things such as your target audience, topic, purpose, and everything else had to be considered to find the perfect genres to fulfill what was being advertised. All-in-all this class was a good way to flesh out truly what genre is. Preceding this class I considered genre in the most basic of realms: horror, comedy, classic, etc. Never had I thought of genre as a type of composition. My ability to look at a work and understand it's varied components that made it become the genre that it represents has been strengthened from reading the book but predominantly from having done the projects. It's been a great semester and a fun class, I'll miss it!