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The Commerce Week on Writing was an exciting week for me and my favorite in English so far. I loved attending the different lectures.  It gave me such great insight on how everyone is affected by literacy and has their own sponors.  It took what we learned in the classroom and made it apply to real life for me.  I won’t forget when Brandt was referenced so many times by the graduate students at Thursday’s lecture for our class.  I love when things can take meaning beyond the classroom.

What surprised me? It was the excitment in the atmosphere that was everywhere.  I couldn’t believe how many people knew about the Commerce Week on Writing. I’m lucky enough to have several friends who work for the East Texas so they had to write stories over the happenings at the different lecures.  It was cool because I was able to offer my insight on the Writing Local Histories panal when one of them was writing an article about it.

What intrigued me? I was intrigued by the variety of writing and literacy styles found throughout Commerce.  I went to the Open Mic event at Cowhill and was facinated by it.  I’m intrigued by Cowhill in and of itself and really look forward to hearing more about Caroline’s research project.  I saw real talent and I saw raw talent that hadn’t been refined, but it was still enjoyable for me.  Going to Cowhill was not just because it was part of my English class, I went because I wanted to and I’m so glad I did.

What disturbed me? There wasn’t any real part of the week I found disturbing.  What was sad to me was kinda what Caroline touched on in her blog. I saw talent at Cowhill that will never be felt beyond the Community.  The music industry is so much harder to get into.  At the Writing Local Histories session, all but one of the speakers had published books.

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I started off by typing “Baptist Student Ministries.” I hoped by typing “ministries” it would take me to something with general information about BSMs and not limit me to a particular campus.  The first website was www.student.org. This place was amazing.  I didn’t know there was a national BSM site. I clicked on the campus minister’s office tab to try to find more about the position since I will need to talk to the one here. I didn’t see what I was looking for so I hit the back button and then clicked on the leadership tab.  This lead to an interesting discovery for me because the first thing i saw were the words “leadership culture.”  I then explored a linked page that was titles “Not Loving College Students.”   Reading all of the texts on these pages I visited gave me deeper insight into what the BSM stands for and how it attemps to reach students.  The national website could also play into my ethnographic study because this could be where some of the students on campus first heard about the BSM.

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