Hey, it's me, Natalie.
You're probably wondering what the heck this site is all about. If you are, keep reading! If you're not, keep reading!
I am a Professional Writing student focusing on digital media at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and I am studying abroad in Luxembourg for this semester (Fall 2015). As someone who enjoys english and rhetoric more than regular folk, I decided to craft an independent study that will allow me to both observe and analyze European life while simultaneously receiving school credit for it, and all the various departments involved are letting it happen! This is a big score for my little writer self. Such is the beauty of a liberal arts education, my friends.
With the help of my wonderful and talented professor, John Mauk, the first-ever-English-student-while-abroad independent study has been created and is now in motion. You can read the exact words of our proposal on the page titled "The Study", but I thought I'd break it down here in a bit more of plain english for the kids.
The Study & The Blog
Basically, I'll be in Europe for four months (August 26th - December 12th, 2015), and while there, I will be studying and living among Luxembourgians with 150 or so other Miami students. The thing about Luxembourg is that it is definitely not America. I have never been anywhere that is definitely not America, and I am curious to see how my culture, beliefs, opinions, and experiences both compare and contrast to those of the Europeans that I will be living among and learning from. Am I allowed to end a sentence with a preposition on a blog supported by influential Miami English people? I'm going with yes.
In order to rhetorically analyze the culture here, I am going to focus on "artifacts". Basically, that means I'm going to find stuff that has writing involved in it somehow. That can be anything from restaurant menus to renowned governmental documents. These will be easy to find because they are necessary for communication, which is necessary for saying anything, really.
Personal
Since this is a focused study and I can sometimes un-focus in favor of tangents and thinking out loud, I reserved a page on this site for my unrelated (yet likely very interesting and hilarious) thoughts/adventures/disasters/victories of my travels. Those tidbits will be filed under the heading "personal", and everything formally related to my study will be filed under "blog". Read it, live it, love it. I am happy you're here.
Follow me! I have no idea what I'm doing! Do any of us really ever know, though? (No).
You're probably wondering what the heck this site is all about. If you are, keep reading! If you're not, keep reading!
I am a Professional Writing student focusing on digital media at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and I am studying abroad in Luxembourg for this semester (Fall 2015). As someone who enjoys english and rhetoric more than regular folk, I decided to craft an independent study that will allow me to both observe and analyze European life while simultaneously receiving school credit for it, and all the various departments involved are letting it happen! This is a big score for my little writer self. Such is the beauty of a liberal arts education, my friends.
With the help of my wonderful and talented professor, John Mauk, the first-ever-English-student-while-abroad independent study has been created and is now in motion. You can read the exact words of our proposal on the page titled "The Study", but I thought I'd break it down here in a bit more of plain english for the kids.
The Study & The Blog
Basically, I'll be in Europe for four months (August 26th - December 12th, 2015), and while there, I will be studying and living among Luxembourgians with 150 or so other Miami students. The thing about Luxembourg is that it is definitely not America. I have never been anywhere that is definitely not America, and I am curious to see how my culture, beliefs, opinions, and experiences both compare and contrast to those of the Europeans that I will be living among and learning from. Am I allowed to end a sentence with a preposition on a blog supported by influential Miami English people? I'm going with yes.
In order to rhetorically analyze the culture here, I am going to focus on "artifacts". Basically, that means I'm going to find stuff that has writing involved in it somehow. That can be anything from restaurant menus to renowned governmental documents. These will be easy to find because they are necessary for communication, which is necessary for saying anything, really.
Personal
Since this is a focused study and I can sometimes un-focus in favor of tangents and thinking out loud, I reserved a page on this site for my unrelated (yet likely very interesting and hilarious) thoughts/adventures/disasters/victories of my travels. Those tidbits will be filed under the heading "personal", and everything formally related to my study will be filed under "blog". Read it, live it, love it. I am happy you're here.
Follow me! I have no idea what I'm doing! Do any of us really ever know, though? (No).