Post 1 12/8

   Over the course of the semester, I believe that I learned a lot from this communications class. All of the concepts which we learned in this class seem to be very important for every day life, whether it comes to using claims or fallacies when speaking out in a group. Especially in college, you are meeting so many people and need to develop new social skills to connect with people, and this class is needed to develop those skills. For me, this class comes in handy as well because I work at PF Changs as a server and I am talking to many people each day that I have never met before. One of the many things I learned this semester was the difference between prescriptive and descriptive claims. For example, at work this weekend it was very busy and the food was taking a long time to get to the tables. For my table, one of their entrees took thirty minutes to get to them. They were nice about it and knew that we were busy, but i told them that we would take care of that dish because it should have been ready with the rest of their food.  At that moment, I realized that I had made a prescriptive claim, which is a claim that says what should be.