Category «FYS 110»

Boyer Connections for 10/7/2021

One thing that excites me about the communications major is that it includes public relations and journalism. This is something that intrigues me because I was thinking a lot about an English/writing minor and that would go well with the journalism aspect of this major.

Lamott response

According to what author Anne Lamott has to say, I would think that writing a first draft is more about the process. She talks about letting the first draft be the place “where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place” (Lamott 4). In this quote “it” is …

Water response questions

In 300 words or less, summarize the speech and show (with framed quotes and paraphrases from the text) what you believe to be the author’s three main points/arguments. Support with textual evidence and include your own initial response to the material. In the speech “This is Water ” American author David Foster Wallace argues three …

Bloom questions

In 400 words or less, summarize the piece AND show (with framed quotes and paraphrase from the text) what you believe to be the author’s three main points/arguments. Support with textual evidence and include your own initial response to the material. In his article “Is empathy overrated?” Professor Paul Bloom argues that empathy has more …

Boyer questions

Boyer discusses several tensions in what are often heated discussions of what a college curriculum should entail. Identify one central tension Boyer discusses and describe some of the pros/cons and values behind it. How would you enter the debate, right now? Support your response with a quote from Boyer and at least 4 sentences of …

Essay #1 reflection

What was your final thesis statement? Paste, then analyze its strengths & weaknesses The use of social media creates a warped sense of how communication works by encouraging our ability to send a snapchat but decreasing our ability to hold a conversation.   I think that my thesis statement was pretty decent, it was specific but …

Naysayer response

What makes the internet so validating is when you’re exposing a small piece of yourself to essentially thousands of people, getting the response you want feels like a success and makes you want to keep doing it. As Megan’s tweets went viral Chen reported that, “by the end of the day, Phelps – Roger had …

Project 1 writers memo

I am not yet completely confident with my draft so far. I think that I have been successful in gathering all the ideas I need and want to use in my essay but I just need to work on stringing them together better. Another area I may need to work on is not being so …

Peer review experience 9/22/2021

I actually liked our first college experience of peer review. The comments my partner, Jacob, made were helpful and appreciated. A good example would be that it’s Meghan Phelps ROPER and throughout my whole essay I wrote Meghan Phelps ROGER so that would have been kind of embarrassing to submit if Jacob had not noticed …

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