Choose two questions. For each, first explain why you chose that question, what makes it a good one. Then answer it. Spend no more than 2 pages single-spaced and three hours per question. Please tag it as mid-term response, and…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
The Loss of the Student
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Mike Calou Commentary Number Six 3-31-09 The Loss of the Student Now I know I’m starting to lose it. When I read Walker Percy’s “The Loss of the Creature” I immediately thought of an article I had just read about…
Log February 17
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Tina Bell English 5870 Log February 17, 2008 Course Requirements Observation Notebook Two column Write field notes in a notebook Purpose is to get used to ethnography Weekly Commentaries Cover the assigned reading 500-750 words Log Sign up to…
So What!
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Tina Bell 5870 Commentary week 7 31 March 2009 So What! I guess at some point during the semester, I must put an article down and exclaim, “so what!” Well, this semester, the article causing me to wish I…
2/24 Class Log: First Half of Class
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Adam Russell 2/24 Class Log: 6:00-7:30 First on the agenda: Navigating the website: Professor De Vries stressed the importance of e-mailing her with any questions and concerns. (kdevries@csustan.edu) In regard to the website, we discussed signing up as…
English 5870: Class Log March 17, 2009
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Correction: The attachment summarizing the main discussion points from English 5870 3/17 class is in the Media Library in .PDF format. Have fun. FS
The Loss of the Creature Commentary
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–The highest role of the educator is in the maieutic role of Socrates: to help the student come to himself not as a consumer of experience but as a sovereign individual (Percy 47).In the selection from The Loss of…
Mid-term Responses
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Dawn Hamilton Mid-term Questions: Set A: The relationship between the study of rhetoric and the development of virtue or an ethical sense has been debated since classical times. A3. In writing classes today, how might a perception that studying…
Class Log
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Amble Hollenhorst Dr. Kim De Vries ENGL 5870 3 March 2009 Log for Second Half of Class on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 • Writing Prompt: 1. What do you think is the biggest challenge you will have in doing observations?…
Commentary #6-Percy
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I think this reading got much more in depth into the theory of perception than I was prepared for. It took the idea of the “most photographed barn in America” to a new place for me. But as much as…