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 will be exposed. What will you choose to learn?
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. Failure
10. Fast Writes
11. Following directions
12. Format, format, format
13. George Sheehan
14. Goal setting
15. Happiness
16. Henry David Thoreau
17. Homework, a cruel hoax
18. How to be more personal, "Here's what I think."
19. Information Organization
20. Journal writing.
21. Letters of Introduction (Cover letters)
22. Letters of recommendation
23. Library data bases
24. Listening
25. Love
26. Main ideas
27. Memory Patterns
28. MLA format
29. Not getting finished, but getting started.
30. Note taking, Essays
31. Organizing information
32. Personal Best
33. Personal Philosophy
34. Quality
35. Reading (aloud)
36. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Restate, restate, restate. Retell, retell, retell.
37. Research papers
38. Research tools
39. Resumes
40. Self Reliance
41. Speaking
42. Starting on time, staying on task, completing assignments
43. Study Skills
44. Stupid questions
45. Subordinate ideas
46. Success
47. Taking care of yourself
48. Tell Backs
49. The skill of college writing
50. "Thinking." What other class have you ever had that told you about thinking and about how the mind and memory work?
51. William James
52. Winning
53. Wisdom
54. Working hard
55. Writing and the writing process
56. Writing furiously
You will learn 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. The behaviors? Starting on time, staying on task, completing assignments, following instructions, meeting expectations.
All this leads me to ask the question? What will you be learning?