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Even in English class students can have a little ft
Sophomores Shawn Haggstro and John Mislivec seem to
enjoying their English 10 lecture. (photo by A. Minear)
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Development Key Factor

I n a room cool and very quiet, notebooks and learned in English classes helped a lot when you
books were scattered on the floor . In front a had to write papers for Advanced Comp," stated
teacher asked the class to write a short Junior Scott Millen.
paragraph describing their house. However, the more advanced classes asked
It was a first- assignment and yet, for for not only application of grammar and writing,
freshmen in this English 9 class, this would only but also research and analysis skills . For example,
be the beginning of their four-year English inJ.tesearch Methods students had to concentrate
program. Ahead would be everything from parts on validity, time value, scope, and style. "We had
of speech to capitalization, sentence structure, to apply what we learned and develop it enough
literature, spelling, and vocabulary. to write good papers," Junior Amy Barton
Knowing grammar paid off in the upper-level explained.
classes like Advanced Composition, too. "Skills Classes in the English department called for
students' skills in the development of communica-
tion through speech and writing. " It was easier
to write papers and get my ideas across since I
had already had several English classes," said
Junior Kim VanBrunt.
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180~ .In an empty classroom, Junior Tracy Kipfer steals a few Keeping up with reading assignments is one of the harde
minutes of quiet study time before continuing on to English
class for her test. (photo by 5. Meese) parts of English Literature. Attempting to do just this a1
Juniors Amy Gosselin and Heidi Crye. (photo by A. Minea