Southern Minnesota Writing
Location
CSU
Student's Major
English
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Cassandra Labairon
Mentor's Department
English
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
The purpose of this project was for English majors to research the landscape and culture of southern Minnesota and present the findings at the Undergraduate Research Conference through creative writing. This project was important to expand our experience and comfort zone by investigating the areas of southern Minnesota outside of the MSU campus. Normally a student does not explore the area beyond their college town. It also gave us an opportunity to approach our writing in a new way. We attained goals by observation, discussion, information gathering, writing, and revision of creative work. The group benefited because our understanding of southern Minnesota increased. Our ability to express this new knowledge helped inform our writing. Because being writers we interpret the world around us, it was of benefit to discover new places. We will present our writing to an audience. Thereby others will increase their awareness of the world through our writing. At the conference we will present our information by taking tums reading our creative work to the audience.
Southern Minnesota Writing
CSU
The purpose of this project was for English majors to research the landscape and culture of southern Minnesota and present the findings at the Undergraduate Research Conference through creative writing. This project was important to expand our experience and comfort zone by investigating the areas of southern Minnesota outside of the MSU campus. Normally a student does not explore the area beyond their college town. It also gave us an opportunity to approach our writing in a new way. We attained goals by observation, discussion, information gathering, writing, and revision of creative work. The group benefited because our understanding of southern Minnesota increased. Our ability to express this new knowledge helped inform our writing. Because being writers we interpret the world around us, it was of benefit to discover new places. We will present our writing to an audience. Thereby others will increase their awareness of the world through our writing. At the conference we will present our information by taking tums reading our creative work to the audience.
