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Integrating Quotes – a Worksheet SAMPLE I ORIGINAL The universities themselves are policing students’ speech very closely, and making people nervous to express ideas in case they are deemed as offensive. The authors claim that this affects students because it “prepares them poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong.” Creating a culture where speech must be monitored and topics must be banned is only going to hurt students…

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TASK ONE Original: Dweck describes her idea of a fixed mindset as students that when faced with problems that are challenging, just give up or look for shortcuts. “They run from the error. They don’t engage with it”. These people are similar to the oversensitive students. Instead of hearing words and topics that are uncomfortable and possibly triggering, they would prefer to hide from the topics altogether.  People with a growth mindset when encountering a problem “engage deeply. They process…

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I met with Olivia on 9/18. She helped me with minor grammatical things like comma placement and quoting. Mainly she helped me come up with ideas for my third paragraph, which I mostly deleted and needed ideas on. For my third paragraph I’m going to introduce fixed mindsets, and their problem. Olivia told me to “talk more about the fixed mindset, introduce fixed mindsets, define it, use examples, and explain why it’s not beneficial for students.” She told me to…

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https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-idgk8-bfbf8 I have never used Audacity before, so everything was new to me. The biggest challenge I had was figuring out how to import my music. I learned how to add effects to audio, because I needed to fade in and out. I think after I become more comfortable with the software then it will be a lot less confusing. Podcast notes/outline Hello today is Monday September 16th welcome to the awesome podcast show. The show that airs every monday…

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Psychologist Carol Dweck, creator of the terms fixed mindset and growth mindset, suggests that people need to push themselves and challenge themselves mentally in order to grow. When something is difficult and requires hard work, many people will give up. Although, forcing yourself to think outside of your comfort zone, especially when it feels like a lot of work, can help make new connections and strengthen thinking. (Dweck) Dweck’s theory of becoming more resilient with a growth mindset is very…

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My own biggest concern with my essay is that it’s very repetitive. I would like to change the order of certain paragraphs around, and maybe throw more ideas into the paper. I think this could help make each paragraph feel different from the one before. Positive feedback I received from the peer reviews were that I explained my argument well and used evidence from the reading. Kayla Midolo commented “The ideas you have talked about are expanded really well and…

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In order to from the most productive approach to learning in higher education begins through developing growth mindsets in students. If these students are taught to develop a growth mindset since kindergarten, and up until higher education than the chances that they’ve developed a growth mindset will be higher. Having a growth mindset could possibly help stop this sensitive thinking. The thinking seen in college today is completely opposed to ideas or words that are deemed offensive or hurtful. Sheltering…

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2. The reason for punishing students who break the new societal norms, and standards of how we should treat each other is very simple. It began as a way to protect those who may have not had as strong of a voice. “Sometime in the 1980s, college campuses began to focus on preventing offensive speech, especially speech that might be hurtful to women or minority groups.” Truly offensive speech should be punished by the school, but the examples provided are…

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When I went to the Involvement Fair I talked to many different clubs to see what they had to offer. I signed up to be emailed by the aquaponics club, rugby, and Psy Chi, but the club that seemed the most interesting to me was the Outing Club. The general theme of the club is to be active and go outdoors, usually in the form of rock climbing, hiking, or white water rafting etc. The representative for the club told…

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The authors of the article insist there are significant differences between political correctness of the 80’s and 90’s to the political correctness that exists today. According to the authors the reason for the usage of political correctness from decades past was “to restrict speech, specifically hate speech aimed at marginalized groups.” This was beneficial to challenge the historical rules of behavior and speech, ultimately looking to include a more diverse point of view. “The current movement is largely about emotional…

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