P3 Blog post

At the beginning of this assignment, I had absolutely no idea what to write about.  For the discussion I thought of questions such as “Why are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the Presidential nominees” or “How is the cost of college tuition decided”.  I didn’t like either of those topics so I thought a little bit more- I want to research something that I’m genuinely interested in and that’s when I got it.  I decided to question “Does online education help better students than compared to traditional education?”.  This is one of the themes in the Ethics and Higher Education book and it’s something I relate to because I am in both online and traditional courses and I am interested to see what they say about both from different standpoints. I think the potential stakeholders I could direct my argument towards would be students because they will be the ones most likely to either take traditional or online schooling, and parents because I feel like they have the right to know which type of teaching helps better their child. When it comes down to it, I would like my main stakeholder to be students because they are the ones that ultimately get the greater impact and should know the pros and cons to both online classrooms and traditional classrooms as well.  I would rather persuade an unconvinced stakeholder that traditional schooling and classrooms helps better students than compared to online schooling.  I think that there’s mixed emotions about both online education as well as traditional education- there’s pros and cons to both but I am hoping by the end of this persuasive argument that more people can see that ultimately traditional education is the better route to go if possible.  One of the main concerns I have is that there won’t be enough facts to back up my claim that traditional schooling is better than online.  This is a concern of mine because in a way, it can be seen as an opinion based paper and that is not what I want this paper to turn into at all.  In order for this paper to be successful, I am going to need a lot of research and facts to help me back up this claim.  My goal is not only show the difference in grades but as well as the positive long term effects that traditional teaching has on students.  One of the things we do in class that has helped my writing progress has been how we let other people read our papers and give their critiques and input.  This has helped me in terms of improving my writing because I may think something makes sense but when someone else reads it they may have no idea what I’m talking about so i’ve learned to slow down and make sure people understand the point I am trying to make.  As a student who is in both regular and online classes, I am excited to see the pros and cons of both as well as the long term effects each one has.  I believe on an emotional level, that I’ll be able to connect with the reader about why traditional schooling is more beneficial now all I need are the facts to back it up.