"Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community." — Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
ENGL&102 is designed to increase your confidence with a research-based writing process. It provides practice with: generating ideas; forming hypotheses and arguments; locating materials from libraries, internet, experts and other sources; organizing notes; using evidence; incorporating sources; and avoiding plagiarism. You will strengthen your understanding of rhetorical strategies, group process, close reading and critical thinking. You will further develop a composition process of brainstorming, discussing, drafting, revising and editing, and you will continue to make stylistic decisions that develop and showcase your individual writing voice.
In this course, we will focus our research and composition around Native American Studies in general and specific issues brought up in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. We will be joining the community read between students, faculty and staff at the Northwest Indian College-Tulalip branch campus, community members of the Tulalip Tribes and other interested individuals.
These blogs will be where we do a lot of commenting on the Alexie book, as well as what we find in our research and personal experiences. As was mentioned in class and on the syllabus, the guidelines/rules of "netiquette" and multicultural communications apply(posted on Angel and you can also find some by using a search engine on those terms). We hope to have meaningful and even challenging conversations, so having at least some recent exposure to these guidelines can help us through any rough spots. Please feel free to email me if you are having any concerns about yours or someone else's posts during this community read: mestelle@cascadia.edu
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