Intermediate Composition Honors Seminar
January - April, 2017
During my third year at UC, in the spring semester, I took an honors section of Intermediate Composition with Professor Gary Vaughn. This course was focused on developing students writing abilities with a focus on literacy, genre, discourse communities, and research. Throughout the semester, I wrote four essays: personal literacy, comparative genre analysis, ethnography of a discourse community, and reflective essay. Before the semester, I didn't know what those first three essays even meant. The course slowly built upon itself by first laying a foundation with an understanding of literacy then bolstering understanding from there to comprehend the ideas of genre and discourse communities as well as the influence both of those have on composition. Completion of the third essay allowed me the opportunity to develop and put into action primary research skills. I had to get involved with the discourse community I was researching, speak to the women of the group, and then form my own conclusions and ideas about the group as a whole. This is a skill set I can use going forward in my biomedical engineering career because if I continue on in Research and Development I will apply this skill to seeking out physicians and speaking to them about products and new product ideas. Although I took this course as a requirement for my program, I ended up gaining skills and learning lessons that are applicable to engineering!
Below you will find my ethnography essay on a discourse community. This was the third essay I wrote during the semester and the culmination of all my learning throughout the term.
Below you will find my ethnography essay on a discourse community. This was the third essay I wrote during the semester and the culmination of all my learning throughout the term.
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