Video Draft

In the video my group is producing, the purpose as I see it is to explore the "end of composition" from the different perspectives of the "branches" of the English department: Literature, Linguistics, Technical Communications, and Creative Writing.

We have already interviewed four professors, one from each department:
Dr. Borshuk, Lit
Covington, CW
Locke Carter, TC
Dr. Hurst, ling.

We have also interviewed four students from Vicki Ronn's 1301 classes.

We still need to interview four CIs, one from each department: (These are the ones we hope to interview.)
Kristen Jones, Ling
Ruben Quesada, CW
Bob Schaller, TC
Lacy Harvey, Lit

4 DIs

We also think an interesting perspective could be to interview the Dean of A&S to see what she believes that the role of 1301 is in the "big picture" of the university education. Another interesting perspective could be to talk with students that have already moved on into other aspects of their education in different departments. How well did 1301 prepare them for the type of writing they are currently doing? These interviews could serve as bookends to the thoughts of people in the English department.

The questions we have asked our interviewees are:

1. What is the purpose of composition? (What do you, as a professor, hope to get out of your students?/What do you, as a student, hope to get out of the class?)
2. What constitutes a good piece of composition?
3. Realistically, what do you want to get from a composition student/class?
4. How do you know if you are successful as a teacher/as a student? What serves as a guideline for success?

I think our finished product will provide an interesting look at how different people expect different things from the same class. So far, I have been intrigued at the answers we have heard to our questions...

If anyone has an interesting question to add to our list, please share it!