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Rory Donaldson
Syllabus English 101
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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LEARNING?

Learning is a threefold process: one-third takes place through the soles of your feet, another through study, another over the jungle drums. In this class, here is a short list of some of the subjects to which you have been exposed during his class. What have you been learning? In this class you've been exposed to many ideas and skills, including:

  1. Accelerated Learning, 555's
  2. Being heroic
  3. Capturing good ideas
  4. Creating personal portfolios in every class
  5. Discipline
  6. Don't talk about "me" and what I should do. Talk about you, and what you do.
  7. Education
  8. Emerson
  9. Excuses
  10. Failure
  11. Fast Writes
  12. Following directions
  13. Format, format, format
  14. George Sheehan
  15. Goal setting
  16. Happiness
  17. Henry David Thoreau
  18. Homework, a cruel hoax
  19. How to be more personal, "Here's what I think."
  20. Information Organization
  21. Journal writing
  22. Letters of Introduction (Cover letters)
  23. Letters of recommendation
  24. Library data bases
  25. Listening
  26. Love
  27. Main ideas
  28. Memory Patterns
  29. MLA format
  30. Not getting finished, but getting started.
  31. Note taking, Essays. The importance of writing it down.
  32. Organizing information
  33. Participation
  34. Personal Best
  35. Personal Philosophy
  36. Portfolios
  37. Quality
  38. Reading (aloud)
  39. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Restate, restate, restate. Retell, retell, retell.
  40. Research papers
  41. Research tools
  42. Resumes
  43. Self Reliance
  44. Speaking
  45. Starting on time, staying on task, completing assignments
  46. Study Skills
  47. Stupid questions
  48. Subordinate ideas
  49. Success
  50. Taking care of yourself
  51. Tell Backs
  52. The importance of fitness and health
  53. The skill of college writing
  54. "Thinking." What other class have you ever had that told you about thinking and about how the mind and memory work?
  55. William James
  56. Winning
  57. Wisdom
  58. Working hard
  59. Writing and the writing process
  60. Writing furiously
  61. You are a writer

We have also discussed that writing isn't something done in a vacuum. That is, writing is an integral part of a wide range of essential skills and behaviors: reading, writing, listening, speaking, information organization, following directions. The behaviors? Starting on time, staying on task, completing assignments, following instructions, meeting expectations.

All this leads me to ask the question? What have you been learning?

 


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