Note: This is a student project from a course affiliated with the Ethnography of the University Initiative. EUI supports faculty development of courses in which students conduct original research on their university, and encourages students to think about colleges and universities in relation to their communities and within larger national and global contexts.
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Description
Title: | Fire Station on Gregory |
Author(s): | Oros, Andrei |
Subject(s): | Rhet 105
Firefighters community |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Course / Semester: | RHET 105, Principles of Composition, John Griswold: Being a fluent writer - no matter what field someone goes into - demands that he or she be fair, coherent and specific. In this course students developed these skills through ethnography, which seeks to reveal how particular cultures construct and understand experience. Students used writing as a way of thinking, seeing, searching for patterns and meaning, and communicating clearly when faced with a complex set of tasks and issues. Students also made gradual but continuous progress towards an ethnographic essay, and reflected on the process of coming to know. In the process, students identified their own assumptions, tried to see others for what they are, and attempted to represent, in words, others' cultural experiences. The course syllabus is available at: http://www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/RHET105F08.pdf. |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/10832 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2009-04-15 |
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The University and the Community
This collection of student research interrogates the relationships between the university and the local community.