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Involve Me: A Look at the Power of Experience on Learning

Submitted by L Cubed on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 5:44pm

Brain and Education Web Paper 3

“Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I will remember. Involve me, and I will understand”

Bridging Theory and Practice

Submitted by LinKai_Jiang on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 5:39pm

An Interplay Between Novels

Submitted by tgarber on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 12:40pm

Non-Fictional Prose Web Paper 4

For my last paper, I decided to do a Prezi to illustrate my thought process in writing. I feel that this paper is a proper culmination to a class that has challenged me to use different forms of media to express my ideas and opinions while upholding the creative writing process.

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Decision Making

Submitted by Erin on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 12:12pm

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Final Project Reflection: The “Reality” of one Student’s Experience in a Non-Fictional Prose Class

Submitted by Smacholdt on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 12:08pm

Non-Fictional Prose Course

I went through several stages of brainstorming for my final project. I ended up settling on a poster collage incorporating my ideas, some borrowed from other places (books we’ve read, things people have posted, essayed, said, etc.) This slightly incongruent poster seemed to be the best way to represent what I have absorbed in this course. I felt as though many of the ideas in the conversations we’ve had in class have been spread out in so many different directions that it was hard to find a way to connect them all. But then I thought, why do I have to find a way to connect them? If this class has taught me one thing it’s to think outside the sock drawer. Many of my class notes don’t have any logical connections anyway.

An Analysis of The Professor and the Madman and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Submitted by Smacholdt on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 11:57am

Non-Fictional Prose Web Paper 4

An Analysis of The Professor and the Madman and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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A Defense of the Formal Education System (of sorts)

Submitted by Kwarlizzle on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 11:41am

This paper chronicles some epiphanies I have had concerning the formal education system. We have spoken in class several times of the need of formal education reform. We have detailed how insufficient the current system is in creating creative thinkers or even educated thinkers. We have spoken of how the system sets many people up for failure and disregards many other children whose minds work in ways different from the ones prized by our system. I wholeheartedly agree with all these sentiments, but as I think on them, my mind harkens back to two incidents: a conversation I had with my friend who attended school in Ghana and a book I read for pleasure.