Thursday, December 8, 2016

The Future of College Writing 2

To future students of dr. bonnie lenore kyburz,

For starters, you will eventually understand why I wrote her name in all lowercase, I know it is not the proper why to write someone's name, but that is how she likes it. Dr. kyburz is one of the greatest teachers because she allows so much freedom when it comes to writing and coming up with creative ideas. She is always there to help when needed and wants her students to grasp onto writing techniques that make their papers stand out to the best of their ability. She allowed us to not only create papers and talk about them, but let us show people our work in the form of a video. I have never had a writing teacher let us create a video of our own that relates to a piece we wrote about. It really shocked me to see how talented some of the people were in my class when they presented their videos. I learned that you can say so much with such little words in these multimodal videos. She wants all of us to have our own voice and to use it to stand up for what we believe in. She has taught me to stick with what I feel and let people know what my opinion is no matter what anyone else has to say about it.
Another tip for taking this class, she uses Purdue owl as a reference if we need tips or help when creating a paper. If your ever unsure about something in a paper use Purdue owl to help answer any questions you need. Also, she usually posts examples of papers from other classes or past students on the class blog and those helped a lot when I wasn't sure how to start or organize a paper.
For the most part her class isn't hard. It just challenges you to think deeper into the themes or ideas of your papers and the outcome is better than you ever thought it would be. I had a great experience being in her class and hope that all the future students do as well.

1 comment:

  1. lovely! i adore this image! so glad the mm project taught you so much!

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