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James C. Register

Essay#2

Class outside of my major; Gestalt principle

Choosing a class outside my major and investigating what is involved, is both interesting and challenging. For this assignment, I have chosen networks as my class to discuss. I see this class as being directed towards computer networking and learning the basics of how to maintain and operate a computer network for a large company. After review to course guide in this specific subject, I found several other aspect of this class to be different than my initial opinion. Below is a list of three different details that are different from my initial perception:

1. This course also discusses the relevance of technology and biblical worldview.

2. The course compared and contrasted the effects of wired, wireless, and fiber optics within a network. This was a surprise because I did not know that this class involved hardware training (wired vs. Fiber) but makes sense because these are important factors.

3. Lastly, this course required (6) essays to be no more than 500 word. I never thought that a network class would be essay based but after reading the course description; I realized that the essays were based on what the student learned through each module and an important part of the class.

After reviewing the course description about networks, I still believe that my initial perception of the course was correct; however, there were several other aspects to the class that I did not perceive and those aspects were very important and after my review, I too see how they are needed.

Four attention techniques:

1. Meaningful: Keep your audience interested and try to incorporate new ideas with ideas that can easily associated with meaningful ideas or ideas that are more common.

2. Pronounceable: While speaking try to use words that are easily pronounced, this will help the listener stay interested and be able to retain what they hear.

3. Concrete: Keep it simple, Ideas...