WI07567

What expectations do you have for reading, writing, discussion in a course?

What do you feel that you have the right to do as a reader or writer in this class?

Political Science	Classes are discussion-based. We are expected to come to class"knowing" the material. "Knowing" means having read assignments and understood them. What is expected, what is asked. It's personal the way you want to take it, how you get involved.
Allied Medicine	Classes are often 3 hours long. We do readings before lecture-based classes. Our work is primarily taking tests or doing projects. Projects may be done in small groups. There is some financial analysis. We rarely write narratives, but instead use charts, graphs, etc. as evidence. We can bring our professional experience to our analyses.
English	We participate in critical discussion and analysis. We dissect and classify terms with respect to authors and their work. It's more vague, We find common threads, but we can ver flexible and creative. We are free to bring our own experience to our analyses. We may write in narrative forms, and we operate in an intepretive arena.
Sociology and/or Psychology	Our work is fact-based. We often write long (15-page) research papers as the major work of our courses.
Communications	Our work is project-based.
Spanish	In literature classes, much of our research and writing may be done in Spanish. Writing in Spanish not only uses a different language but it operates according to different conventions. You "make sense" in different ways. Non-literature classes require shorter, but more periodic papers.

ASC 338	The c ase study not so black and white—you want to represent organization properly, but you can have freedom in how you perceive that organization. The case study can be tailored to your own personal and professional interests Journals ask you to bring your own experiences to bear even more directly. Develop an explicit sense of your own critical perspective you bring to your discoveries The manner in which you are used to writing paper An understanding of where you “come from” How it is that human beings get to know the world: What do you use to get to know the world: see, hear, smell, touch, taste, intuition (What do you think is going on here?) What do you use to make sense of them: your head (think), your heart (feel), your stomach (feel), your backbone

Types of Writing

Descriptive—what is it, what does it look like, how does it feel, what does it do?

Synthetic—draw several things together

Analytical—what does it mean, how does it do what it is supposed to,

Interpretive--how do you make sense of what you see, describe, think about, from personal, social, etc. frameworks macro and micro

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