No, because I sucked so badly in ENG15 my first semester at PSU that my professor handed out my first paper the next year to the class as an example of how not to write a paper. She didn't even do me the courtesy of removing my name from it.
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No, because I sucked so badly in ENG15 my first semester at PSU that my professor handed out my first paper the next year to the class as an example of how not to write a paper. She didn't even do me the courtesy of removing my name from it.
thats cold...ice cold.
I got a A in english 15 but you would never know it from my posts..........
A part of me was embarrassed, sure. But a part of me was also a little proud that I could be so good at being so terrible at something that my poor writing skills were a shining example of such a thing.
Now, in the years since I took that class (19 years) I have become a lot better at writing. I was even the sports editor for my high school newspaper so you'd think I would have been far better at writing heading into college. I was never much of a student, though. I hardly studied and procrastinated terribly throughout my four years but I graduated on time and with very average grades.
I agree, but please don't take it personally...
Btw, what's English 15? I believe I had English 10...
ENG15 is your basic freshman English course at PSU. It's supposed to be a layup...for most people. Some of us can't make a layup, though!
Flo isn't doing much more than what is happening on this board... Speculation, hearsay, opinion, and rumor conversation
Thanks, that much I know. I was hoping for someone older that remembers the English classes in the 1973 +/- timeframe.
Who me?
F** little PSU wrestling data point. Took the class with Jeremy Hunter, who is a humble and super guy to this day.
I'm in that time frame, but I'm afraid I'm so old that I can't remember what the basic English class was called. I thought it was in a 100 series--maybe that was just for math and science.
Most students tools ENGL 10 in 1982. I took ENGL 20 (or was it 30?) in its place. Great class - I think about it often. I believe the professor’s name was Gus Kolich. Got to read Coriolanus, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Dr. Faustus, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, and another title I can’t recall.
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_91c0164a-216e-531b-b917-a7519ee3b6de.html
that didnt take long....thought it would be one of the west coast guys to point out.
well done. You get an A+ for the internet today!
you mean sort of like the Ed Ruth taco bell ( I think that is what got him suspended)
I ain’t never had no Enhlish at Penn State. Seriously, I did not have a single English course in my 5 years at PSU in the late 70’s.
I started in 1981, had two years under trimesters then two, I mean three, under semesters (ahem, 5 year plan).
I had English 10 and 20, could it have possibly morphed into 15 after semesters took effect?
I had English 10 and 20, could it have possibly morphed into 15 after semesters took effect?
One of the largest sprinkler installers on the EC (so Im told) is a PSU alum and fraternity brother of mine.
Hes a hand job and I dont think it took a lot of training.
Has always been an excellent intro course -
Course Goals English 15 is an intensive, rhetorically based experience that will prepare you to respond to the vast array of media in everyday life. In this course, we will analyze written, verbal, and visual texts, including pop culture and scholarly arguments. Your major task will be composing five essays, along with a number of smaller assignments. The concept of rhetoric will help you perceive and use language according to specific circumstances and situations. The goal of English 15A is to help you build your writer and rhetorical perception, as you become a critical and creative thinker. My hope is that you will come to see writing as a practice, requiring diligence, patience, and endurance. Additionally, this class will emphasize the idea of diversity through an array of social justice-oriented readings and arguments. We will not presume to understand the term diversity, but will rather interrogate its many valences. Engagement with issues of diversity in written assignments is encouraged, but not required to pass the course. What I expect is that you read and actively discuss the assigned materials.Required and Recommended TextsoEverything’s an Argument (7thEdition) by Lunsford and RuszkiewiczPenn Statements,2017RequirementsTo pass this course you must complete all the major assignments, fulfill all the weekly assignments, and submit all the essays on time. You are expected to attend all class meetings and to participate in draft workshops, in-class exercises, and classroom discussions. All proposals, drafts, papers, and revisions must be handed in on time; failure to turn in a proposal on time or to appear at a draft workshop without a draft is equivalent to turning in an assignment late (i.e., normally a penalty of one grade per late day). GradingPaper 1 Rhetorical Analysis10%Paper 2 Memoir15%Paper 3 Definition15%Paper 4 Argument15%Paper 5 Research Essay 20%Journals (proposals included)10%Participation*15%
Course Goals English 15 is an intensive, rhetorically based experience that will prepare you to respond to the vast array of media in everyday life. In this course, we will analyze written, verbal, and visual texts, including pop culture and scholarly arguments. Your major task will be composing five essays, along with a number of smaller assignments. The concept of rhetoric will help you perceive and use language according to specific circumstances and situations. The goal of English 15A is to help you build your writer and rhetorical perception, as you become a critical and creative thinker. My hope is that you will come to see writing as a practice, requiring diligence, patience, and endurance. Additionally, this class will emphasize the idea of diversity through an array of social justice-oriented readings and arguments. We will not presume to understand the term diversity, but will rather interrogate its many valences. Engagement with issues of diversity in written assignments is encouraged, but not required to pass the course. What I expect is that you read and actively discuss the assigned materials.Required and Recommended TextsoEverything’s an Argument (7thEdition) by Lunsford and RuszkiewiczPenn Statements,2017RequirementsTo pass this course you must complete all the major assignments, fulfill all the weekly assignments, and submit all the essays on time. You are expected to attend all class meetings and to participate in draft workshops, in-class exercises, and classroom discussions. All proposals, drafts, papers, and revisions must be handed in on time; failure to turn in a proposal on time or to appear at a draft workshop without a draft is equivalent to turning in an assignment late (i.e., normally a penalty of one grade per late day). GradingPaper 1 Rhetorical Analysis10%Paper 2 Memoir15%Paper 3 Definition15%Paper 4 Argument15%Paper 5 Research Essay 20%Journals (proposals included)10%Participation*15%
Penn State education is so good you can learn how to swim from their online course.
And don't even get me started about Freshman math class....Thought for sure I'd never see graduation.
Speaking of Basket Weaving...….What is a good price for a hand woven 1/4 bushel basket? I want to get a couple for my sprinkler fitter. Funny thing.....he start out as an English Major. Little dude......only weighed 125lbs...…
Cael's interview seems to have taken the steam out of all the speculation.
How much snow do yinz have? I got 7" so far.
Kids are already called off for tomorrow and HS football got moved to Saturday night.
Drinking a Great Lakes Christmas Ale tonight awaiting the Packers and Lions BBall at 9pm on FS1.
Still have yet to make it to Iceland.
Oh that's a strong one. I have one from last year in my basement- we'll see how aging treats it.Troegs does right
Maybe it's the board's way of saying we've overanalyzed a 19-year-olds personal business enough.
You could always go over to the Iowa board and convince them that DeSanto has utterly zero chance of beating Suriano. Or did you get banned for that?
I think it was just Eng1 and Eng2 when I started in 1972.
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