ENC 2135 Project 4

  This course was unlike my other classes this semester. Being freshman means doing mostly information-based work and not having a lot of freedom to do more creative work. This course let me choose topics I wanted and create content based on research I had done on the topic. I will outline and elaborate upon what I have done in this course.             The core assignments are the three projects. The first one was an investigative field study with a two-thousand-word limit. I had to do research for this project. While I could use different types of sources, including primary sources (i.e., original research), I chose to use secondary sources with a mix of academic and popular sources. This was a practical decision. I did have the time, resources, or expertise to conduct my own research on the topic, so I was limited to existing research. The second project was a rhetorical analysis of two artefacts, one a text-based scholar...

  Housing is an essential component of any city or metropolitan area. While housing may seem simple and straightforward at first glance, it is a complicated and nuanced field of study within urban economics. Due to the wide variety of housing types, other land use policies, and other factors such as income there exists a large range of opinions on housing policy within professional fields, politics, and the general public. One of the central topics within housing policy is costs, for both consumers and for the government. Housing affordability, fiscal sustainability of local government, and housing types are interconnected topics. Two arenas of contention within planning are the construction of luxury housing and the density of housing. There are varying opinions, stances, and data behind each of these and I will present two artefacts that examine luxury housing and housing density respectively, and which present arguments in favor of luxury housing construction and higher densit...

Discussion board post #3:     By far the trickiest part was (and still is as I am revising my essay) choosing what to include and not to include. I chose a narrow topic I had already done research on in the past so I knew a niche within it to research and what I would need to construct my essay. The problem I had was too much stuff to write about and too much closely related scholarly research, without much research on the specific topic. As a result I have been somewhat stuck between trying to build a data based essay around the related research or to build a more theoretical argument and use the data I found as a compliment to the theoretical argument. I felt that the conference and the workshop were very helpful as they allowed me to get another opinion on my work. I felt that I had overwritten on what I already had, when in fact there were a few areas I should have covered in a bit more depth. I think the biggest thing I have learned from this is that it ...