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This quarter has been a crazy one. I feel like I have learned so much information about writing and research in such a short amount of time. My researched argument really pushed me out of my comfort zone because it … Continue reading →

After reading Margaret Kantz’s “Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively” one thing she discussed stood out to me. She says, “Some students think that if they can’t do the paper in one draft that means that something is wrong with … Continue reading →

  http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.libproxy.scu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=51b28361-6e70-4673-9165-386e7562f902%40sessionmgr101&vid=1&hid=111 In jstor, I discovered this source that speaks to the impact systemic racism has on minority students in higher education. It talks more specifically about the disadvantage minority students have when preparing for college (because of systematic racism) and … Continue reading →

For my multimodal project I decided to expand upon my researched argument and work to prove the points that I made in it even further. At first I was stumped because I know that race is a touchy subject that … Continue reading →

Archival research was one of the most useful practices in constructing my researched argument. The items I found there influenced my entire essay and created support for my thesis. One source that I found was extremely interesting. It was entitled … Continue reading →

Why is it So Difficult to Be Original? In her blog post, Faith discusses the difficulty in creating an original argument amongst so many well established others. She explains that because her topic was so heavily researched and discussed, she … Continue reading →

Library sessions are always useful, but this one in particular took the win. Gail started out by telling us that to keep us interested we were going to play a game. The game consisted of giving us small sheets of … Continue reading →

During class, my English teacher brought this image to my attention. It is essentially a poster that emphasizes that SCU students speak against sexual violence, bias, harassment and discrimination. This is because (as the poster puts it) SCU works to … Continue reading →

Creating a researched argument was definitely difficult for me. At the end of my senior year in high school I wrote a 25 paged research paper, but it was a little different. Our instructor gave us very clear guidelines and … Continue reading →

When I first thought about turning my researched argument into a multimodal project, I was stumped. Primarily, I was worried about my projects approachability. I know that sometimes talking about race is a touchy subject that many students like to … Continue reading →