Personally, I both do and do not agree with students in this study.  I believe that some of the knowledge gained from English classes past the first-year courses may not be relevant to every discipline.  I previously would have said that about my own discipline, nursing, but after this seven week course I have been showed otherwise.

Along with my English class I was also taking a community nursing class where we are to create a community education tool for a specific demographic.  This coincides directly with what I was learning in my English course.  In my community nursing course, I was to identify some sort of rhetorical situation, decide on an audience and choose a genre to help me educate the audience.  I think that the English course was both applicable and helpful.

I can see how the knowledge from this course will help me in my future endeavors both academically and in my career. As I decide whether or not to pursue further education after my bachelor’s degree, I will consider that I will have to write frequently in my master’s program. I will need to utilize the tools I gained in this course in any course that I may have to write in in the future, and I believe it will make me a better more effective writer.