LEL 3: Fundamentals of Writing 1: Prewriting

1. Interest Level
For someone like me, who often has the ''blank page syndrome'', I found this course to be very resourceful. For most of the course, I was very captivated by the content. However, I had already seen some elements of the program, but it still refreshed my memory.

2. Difficulty
In general, the course was pretty easy to follow, but some parts were way too simple. For example, I had already been force-fed with some notions about the introduction of topics, in high school. On the other hand, I found rather difficult the fourth part of the second section with the charts. As a matter of fact, I had to try twice to be able to organize my ideas properly in the chart.

3. What I Learned
-I learned that by writing down my chains of thought all at once could effectively help to unleash my inspiration. By doing so, it clears the mind of off-topic ideas and leaves the place for a more visual organization of the ideas into a topic statement.
-I found that, when introducing a topics statement, it is primordial to quickly link the elements together. When you go from a vague idea to a precise statement, linking the elements closely and concisely prevents redundancy and unclearness.
-This course taught me that dividing a topic with several questions - such as where, when, why, etc. - helps to establish a basis for an introduction. Even if we already know the answers to those questions, it lets us gather them all together to put them in relation in an introduction. By doing so, it gives a richer introduction to the topic statement.

4. My Score
I did not get a score for this course.

5. Course Rating: 7, 5/10
Compared to the two previous LEL courses that I took, this one had much less technical flaws. Moreover, the content offered different possibilities to start writing a text the right way; therefore, it gave me many different methods to cope with a lack of ideas for a text. The only problem with the course was that some of the parts were way too easy compared to what I expected. However, there were many eye-openers that compensated for this lack of difficulty.