where has the semester gone?

Is it just me or has the semester flown by? It seems like the weeks keep going by faster and faster. Just in a couple weeks, everyone will be packing up for the weekend to go home for Thanksgiving break. It's crazy I tell you! I'm not complaining by any means. It's just that it's going by so fast that I hardly remember what my freshmen year has been like so far. For me, this week is a short one so there goes another week that has flown by. I only have three days of classes because on Thursday and Friday I'm going to Chicago with my fashion class! :] It will be way fun because we leave Thursday morning and get to shop all day! Then Friday we have to get up way early to participate in our fashion workshop that we signed up for. Each of us going on the trip signed up for four classes of interest, that are fashion related of course. So basically we spend all day learning about fashion stuff! How exciting is that? Super exciting!

Syllabus post

English 103 Course Goals:

• English 103 introduces students to the fundamentals of rhetoric; to the elements, strategies, and conventions common to persuasion; to the use of those elements, strategies, and conventions in the construction of their own persuasive visual and verbal texts. Upon completion of English 103 students will:

1. To understand persuasion, we have participated in intensive reviews, watched video clips during class, and read other material.
2. I think by doing these different writing assignments, we have learned to write for different audiences while writing about different things each time.
3. I normally just start writing. I don't really have a brainstorming method I follow. But for revision I have learned to look at different elements of a paper by doing the intensive and peer reviews.
4. We have done different types of papers. For instance, our multimodal assignment was different from any kind of paper I have ever written. But for these types of assignments we learned to get credible evidence.
5. We learned how to do research correctly by going to library one day for class. A guy named Jeremy or something like that gave us some helpful tips on how to research.
6. We have done this by doing our intensive and peer reviews. By having others read our papers has really allowed me to open up my perspective on my writing to both good and bad things.
7. I don't really know if we have learned anything about this unless we have done it on our own or through peer reviews.
8. I haven't really been taking responsibility at all for my progress. All I'm going to say is that I am a big-time procrastinator.
9. I naturally work well with others. But I definitely think this class has helped me enhance this skill.

Course Content and Format

• The content and format of English 103 are designed to enable students to achieve the course goals; specifically, students in English 103 will:

1. Our intensive and peer reviews have helped a lot out with this.
2. Again, this is what we do with our intensive and peer reviews.
3. This is the basically what the reviews consist of.
4. When we write papers, we are required to compose at least 2 drafts to help revise and make our paper as best as possible. Somewhere between the writing of all these drafts we incorporate intensive and peer reviews in there to get the feedback of our fellow classmates.
5. Again, peer and intensive reviews.
6. peer and intensive reviews
7. We have done this by writing several papers keeping a different audience in mind for each. Even for some, we have used a different form of media. For example, our multimodal project.

University Core Curriculum Goals

• The central purpose of University Core Curriculum is to enable men and women to live rich and satisfying lives to undertake the broad responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. Although the University Core Curriculum seeks to discover and nurture individual talents, its primary emphasis is preparation for roles people share as human beings and as members of family and community groups. Thus, students will be able to:

1. I think we have learned a lot just within a semester about life, the real world, and "the man."
2. I'm still working on that part. Hopefully when I take speech, it will help me out a little.
3. I'm only a freshmen. I still have so much to learn about these types of things.
4. Growing up to me is a long process. I haven't crossed roads with these things quite yet.
5. I have worked with others, but to solve common problems? not so much, according to the core curriculum anyways.
6. I have chosen a major and so far I am very satisfied with it.

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