Intermediate Composition Honors
The second of the two honors experiences that I completed during the spring semester of my freshman year, Honors Intermediate Composition was far more focused on self development than my other seminar. Rather than attempting to raise awareness about an issue, or prompt discussion, Professor Gary Vaughn sought to use this seminar to educate his students on how to become better researchers and communicators through expanding our understanding of the concepts behind knowledge and meaning. Using both discussion and lectures, this class was based around the composition of three main essays, each with a different core idea. Each of these core ideas, a literacy narrative, a comparative genre analysis, and an ethnography, respectively were used to expand both the rhetorical knowledge and critical thinking of the students. Using these skills, we learned higher level research techniques, and were also introduced to the concept of language influencing how we as people group ourselves through the concept of a discourse community, as well as through a familiarity with the way that language in a community develops.
I came into this course expecting a class based largely on writing, and was not surprised in that manner. However, I didn't anticipate how the class would also explore communication as a whole, or the concept of knowledge as a result of language. As a result, I think that i have grown significantly both in my basic communication skills, as well as in my writing. This is going to help me greatly in my future years as I am required to write more both in school, and while on co-op.
Featured below is the fourth and final paper that we wrote for this class. A reflective essay, we were asked to consider how we had grown as writers throughout the semester.
I came into this course expecting a class based largely on writing, and was not surprised in that manner. However, I didn't anticipate how the class would also explore communication as a whole, or the concept of knowledge as a result of language. As a result, I think that i have grown significantly both in my basic communication skills, as well as in my writing. This is going to help me greatly in my future years as I am required to write more both in school, and while on co-op.
Featured below is the fourth and final paper that we wrote for this class. A reflective essay, we were asked to consider how we had grown as writers throughout the semester.
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