Personal Essay Reflection
First of all, I have a couple quick questions. Primarily, what is due on Monday? Is it the rough draft of the personal essay or the full 5-6 page version? Secondly, what is Dr. Ballenger's email? I can't seem to find it on the website.
This personal essay has been far outside the realm of typical university work. For the most part, in college, we're taught that your opinion doesn't matter. It's quite the change to have someone care what you think. I also find it interesting to find the different directions my colleagues are taking their writing. I used mine as an exploration of self, but many people are using it to talk about an event, particularly their first few weeks of college. Dr. Ballenger obviously has a different view of collegiate English than most professors. In particular, it's clear that he understands the student's perspective of English. Most of us are not English majors, and if we didn't have to be, there is a good chance we wouldn't be in a collegiate English class. As such, he uses the class to teach us more about ourselves and instead of only exploring the technicalities of English, we are instead delving into our personal lives for more answers which ought to make our writing more interesting.
The full 5-6 page essay is due on Monday. His email is bballeng@boisestate.edu.
ReplyDeletePerfect thanks Jo.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you find, in fact, that your opinion does matter in nearly every writing assignment you do in other classes except those that are simply trying to prompt you to demonstrate that you've absorbed some information. In a way, all writing is personal in much the way this assignment is personal. At the very least even the most formal academic writer establishes a presence through the questions she asks, the voices she invites into the discussion, the way she controls quotation, and the quirks of the way she thinks.
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