english writing course

STUDY GUIDE FOR CH 1 – Koch CWR

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Directions: when you put the cursor at the end of the question and hit enter, another number appears below the prior number. To remove that number, hit ‘backspace’ and the number is removed. Then start typing right below the question. Please put your answer in bold.

Provide answers to the following questions and also list the pages where you find the answers (when applicable):

1. How would you characterize the differences between the student and faculty lists of assumptions?

2. Why do we say that education is a function of society but also society is a function of education?

3. What would adults of earlier eras be applauding? 4. List five obvious metaphors that you find in the section titled “What is

Liberated in Liberal Education.” 5. Faculty ask students to face the possibility that the understanding they bring

into college is what? (list 3 traits). 6. If an adult has inadequate adult understanding, this means they have not

done what? 7. Explain the meaning of the broken line that extends childhood understanding

beyond college in the diagram on p. 7. 8. What does the student naturally use as the student begins their college

education? 9. What can the student avoid (but shouldn’t) as they examine their body of

assumptions? 10.What is cognitive dissonance and why is it important for a good college

experience? 11.Does college ask you to critique your beliefs and values or to critique your

understanding of those beliefs and values? 12.Why is it proposed that there might be a conflict between critical thinking and

openness to alternative viewpoints? 13.Why is it important to have a conversion of understanding before one enters

one’s Major? 14.Based on the information in this chapter, how do you think you will change

your understanding of college and your engagement with the liberal arts core classes? Answer in 110 words or so.