Meredith's Blog

In class last week, the majority of the Thursday lecture involved analyzing certain effective elements within ‘What is the What’, by Dave Eggers. One such element is the genre of which ‘What is the What’ is a part of, bildungsroman. A major problem or loss occurring in the earliest stages of the novel, and multiple […]

In class today, on Tuesday the 26th of November, we completed peer reviews for the drafts of our research papers. The ‘read aloud, think aloud’ concept as the method for peer reviewing has both its merits and demerits. The exercise is extremely effective in that it develops our critical thinking skills, which we can then use […]