The mechanical skill, such as programming and cooking, is not the only thing to judge whether a person is valuable or not, but also the analyzing skill. With analyzing ability, we will be advanced in the workplace comparing to other workers. For helping us to prepare for the workplace, WCWP 100 gives us the occasion to touch various topics and develop the analyzing skill.
The course lets us share the idea with classmates and discuss it, so we can develop the analysis through the interaction with classmates. Nannerl O.Keohane’s “Self-fashioning in society and solitude” mentions that self-fashioning should base on interaction with others. Nannerl wrote that Jean-Jacques Rousseau “paints a vivid portrait of a solitary individual wandering through …show more content…
Without the confliction between different ideas, the individual is not able to appropriately consider the issue. As a result of the absence of distinct views about the issue, so the individual has no idea what problems his or her analysis has and whether the analysis is proper or not. On the other hand, in the course, sharing the idea with classmates is possible to inspire our minds and discover what we have missed in our analysis. In unit two, we were required to read Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bait and Switch.” After reading the book, I thought that Ehrenreich tried to show readers the situation of current layoff people in America. In the discussion, a classmate stated Ehrenreich tried to satirize the capitalism. She pointed out, in the conclusion part of the book, the real purpose of Ehrenreich is …show more content…
Nannerl says that “both Montaigne and Rousseau make us aware of the formidable power of society to shape us as individuals, leading us to behave in ways other people expect or want us to, rather than in the ways that might be true to our best selves” (97). In this case, the interaction with other people is possible to affect an individual’s mind and lead him or her to purely follow and accept the common belief. The common idea and the understanding are not always proper, or it is not the best for the individual. Most professors only perform their speeches about the topic while I sit there and listen in the class; however, I may lose my ability to analyze the matter by myself. In this course, every student needs to write a paper for each class even though those papers are one or two pages, but it allows us to consider the topic before the class by ourselves while writing the paper. Thus, we could involve the class instead of sitting there and doing nothing. Thus, in the workplace, the environment usually distracts people to analyze, so solitarily analyzing is necessary for the individual to have a proper understanding of the issue and learn what he or she needs to