Category Archives: CTW I

Creative Thinking and Writing is a required two-quarter course at Santa Clara University. Despite the lack of choice, the class teaches valuable lessons about approaching ANYTHING with an OPEN-MIND and utilizing CRITICAL THINKING to analyze a conversation. BEAM  All sources … Continue reading →

The main challenges of creating the multimodal project came from the desired audience and framing of the message. The audience could have been directed at either professors or students in higher education. Deciding on the audience became the most important … Continue reading →

Flyer For the multimodal project, I want to design a flyer bringing attention to oppression that could occur in the classroom environment during the discussion of controversial topics. A flyer that demonstrates the effect of unfacilitated discussion has on students … Continue reading →

The library session was centered around summarizing an article for use in our research papers and identifying key parts of each article. Make sure the difference between article title and journal title. Gail, our librarian, had us write the titles … Continue reading →

Problem: Donald Trump seems to be a recurring cause throughout my research. Especially when it comes to colleges which are supposed be safe for academia in all its forms. Institutions of higher education are safe-havens of innovation that continue the … Continue reading →

How do you politically identify and how would you label this campus? Political Identity (n=21) Campus is Conservative Campus is Liberal Conservative (n=11) 27% 73% Liberal (n=10) 50% 50% The perception of the campus as liberal may come from the … Continue reading →

Rodriguez has become a major influence on the formation of my survey. His essay on the formation of his personal and conflicting definition of literacy offers a perspective of political identity in the classroom. Split Lives Rodriguez splits his literacy … Continue reading →

This post won’t actually be a question. Instead, it will be about the theme of questions I’ll create for my upcoming survey. Continuing off of my last post, the essay review with Dr. Lueck generated more than just an improved … Continue reading →

  Perhaps the most interesting point brought up by Kantz, facts are not immune to analyses. Often, we utilize facts in our papers as Exhibit sources, which means we introduce and implement them into the greater scheme of our papers. … Continue reading →

Earlier in the week, I met with Professor Lueck to discuss an average paper, my researched inquiry. Going over the essay and the topic she pointed out the necessary area to improve my essay, organization. What was the underlying problem … Continue reading →