Final Thesis

For my final project, I am, along with three students in Dr. Rickly's class, creating a video. We plan to contrast the views of the different disciplines within English studies (Technical Communications, Linguistics, Literature, and Creative Writing) with those of the students, to create a more whole understanding of how people here feel about Composition. We are focusing on the whole of the discipline, and working on the, thus far correct, assumption that even the professors who only teach graduate level classes now once taught college composition. We aim to see what they got out of that experience, and what they hope students got out of it, along with what they hope their current students got out of the composition classes they took their freshman years. From the students, we want to see what skills they hope to gain from their freshman composition programs. Overall, we hope that the answers will reveal insights about each of the disciplines of English and about the students as well. We think that the answers will be similar across the different divisions but different enough to be interesting.