By Alex Missen (10/20) Dear Diary, I thought Mikey had just wet the top bunk again since there was a big stain I saw from underneath, but no, that was just his blood because he got decapitated. Sleepaway camp is rough, man. I went out to show camp counselor Jackie, who’s really cute for a …
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The Ethnography Note assignments were, I believe, the most interesting out of all of the projects in this class, because they allowed for a semester-long log of all the writing I had done as well as my thoughts and writing habits. I realized that the majority of my writing is either due to my obligations …
The RWD assignments covered a wide range of articles from a variety of authors, covering themes such as the viability of arguments, the nuances of the English language, and philosophical analyses on the meaning of reality. I had no prior experience or exposure to any of these arguments before taking this class, meaning that I …
These Reading Summaries, in my opinion, served mainly as an auxiliary to the RWDs, in that, whereas the RWDs focused mainly on extracting the key point from the assigned reading, the Reading Summaries were meant to rephrase the main argument and the evidence the author used to support it. In this way, after analyzing a …
My Commonplace Book entries came from a variety of sources, ranging from philosophical quotes, to songs, photos, paintings, poems, and passages from some of my favorite books. Of course, having chosen them as the topics of my entries, I already had an appreciation for these things from when I first ran into them, but I …
Since I am writing this in the final week of classes, I have quite a few writing assignments to do. This, on top of my usual obligations for The Caravel, means that I have been doing substantially more writing in these past two weeks than what I would normally do. As for feedback, I generally …
Since my last entry in the Ethnography Notes, I have written a few more Reading Summaries, as well as more articles for The Caravel. Now that I think about it, these two types of assignments are essentially the same thing; I have to condense an outside source into both a summary and interpretation, which a …
Author Stanley Fish concludes his book Winning Arguments with a chapter titled “Why We Can’t Get Along,” which serves as an overall summary of his main thesis on why human beings so often find themselves in argument. Fish begins by interpreting human culture through an argumentative lens. Some of the greatest surviving art of the …
In chapter two of Winning Arguments, titled “Political Arguments,” author Stanley Fish goes in depth on the state of modern politics, namely, why political discourse is often extremely polarizing. The first reason Fish accredits for our divisive politics is the ever presence of spin agents: that is to say, orators who attempt to make their …
Since my last entry in the Ethnography Notes, I have jotted down a few more notes in my log; I’ve started to make it a daily process. The notes I have now are far different from the ones I had previously in that, instead of just writing down the things I did on any given …
