Hello! My name is Shawna McCann, I am a senior at Longwood University! I am a social work major and I have been studying this field all four years that I have attended Longwood. I wanted to be a social work major since high school. When I attended a missions trip with my church, I found a desire to want to help children in any capacity and social work lets me do just that. I have done an 180-hour internship at a skilled nursing home and I have another internship coming up with a child abuse rehabilitation center. I volunteer at my church in the children’s ministry, a food pantry, as well as in various other locations in my community.
The purpose of this ePortfolio is to demonstrate my learning through a collection of my class work done throughout this semester’s English 400 class. Within this ePortfolio includes a few of my journal entries form our Textbook Thank you for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs , my Rhetorical Analysis, and my Common Good Project. I have been able to accomplish all of these assignments through the help of my professor and the peers in my class. The assignments and activities that I partook in improved my active citizenship writing ability by pushing me to write about important public issues and formulate opinions and try to convince my audience to take my side.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Engage in the process of citizen leadership by investigating multiple perspectives on important public issues
- Understand the nature of public discourse/debate as determined by purpose, audience and context
- Choose appropriate formats in writing for a variety of purposes
- Analyze the effectiveness of their own texts and processes for specific rhetorical situations
- Understand how the knowledge, skills, and values learned in general education are interwoven and interrelated, and how they can contribute to the process of citizen leadership