Summary
The college of Bowdoin was founded on June 24, 1794 in Brunswick, Maine by James Bowdoin III. The most notable alumni of that college were the fourteenth president Franklin Pierce, television actor Gary Merrill, and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson. The college of Bowdoin looks for and encourages students to foster joy in learning and take intellectual risks in education. It desires students to join the college so that they can graduate with the ability to engage in views in a critical manner. They hold that they appreciate the liberal arts and encourages everyone to foster its joy. Bowdoin wants the students to graduate with a mind of judgment and views of a critical manner.
Analysis
The two strategies that the website includes is Structure and Imagining Ideal Readers. Structure is how the piece of writing is formed in such a manner. In this case, the website is formed as a informational article that is split up into sections explaining their five domains of education. Their five domain include intellectual and academic, social and residential, athletic, esthic and environmental, and ethical. What the website did was that they would take each domain and give about examples of what the meaning is behind it. For example, when the website was discussing intellectual and academic, they explain the essential skills that goes along with it. They said, “the College enable students to master essential quantitative and writing skills and skills of oral communication, with the guidance of faculty, other professionals, and qualified student peers” (The Mission of the College, 2022).
There are plenty of information that is structured in that type of manner and they go into thorough detail of why these skill sets are important. What they also do with Structure is that they have divided each topic into their own separate page. There are different pages that explain the Offer of the College, The Mission of the College, and Bowdoin and the Environment. The reason for this is that it works as a guide to students who want to understand what they are enrolling into. That is how the website uses one of the parts of the strategy of Structure into their website. There is another part of the website that uses structure in another way.
What they also use in their Structure strategy, is that they use quotes from a variety of educators who have been in the Bowdoin area. The quotes are by educators of Bowdoin such as William Dewitt Hyde and Joseph McKeen. These quotes are often used as support to their topics. One of the quotes that was said “To lose yourself in generous enthusiasms and cooperate with others for common ends . . . ; this is the offer of the College” (President William DeWitt Hyde, 1903). This quote puts a strong emphasis on what the college can offer to anyone who is trying to enroll. The structure of the quotes are often used in a sentence as it continues to follow the point of the topic. Some of the quotes have a meaning behind them such as the quote, “count Nature a familiar acquaintance,” (The Mission of the College, 2022). The meaning to that quote is that when you are student or educator at Bowdoin college, you have the need to preserve the ecosystem. That is how the website adds everything to the Structure strategy into their writing.
The second strategy that the website uses is Imagining Ideal Readers. Imagining Ideal Readers is strategy that utilizes in the readers who are reading an article and gives the right context to said readers. In this case, the ideal readers are the people who are interested into joining Bowdoin college and the article is giving out the information that is just right for them. An example of this is the wording of their statements to make sure the readers know what is expected. What they do is that they would put in information about the college and they would word it as a essay while it’s still formatted as an article. That way the writing can be easy to interpret. Another example of Imagining Ideal Readers is how the writing can be based on a person. This person could be an alumni who graduated or an educator who has been there for quite some years. For example, they often talk about the educators, mainly President Willam DeWittt Hyde, into the writing almost as if he was telling everyone how to adapt to the college life at Bowdoin. It really brings everyone captivated when reading the website. That is how the website implements the second strategy of Imagining Ideal Readers.
Response
I would say that I’m not much of a fit to be at the Bowdoin College. The reason that I would say this is that it’s a little too far away from my home and I don’t think I could meet up with all those expectations for the students. The expectation are showing that students should really be part of the liberal arts and I’m not a particular fan of those kinds of arts. Granted, it includes theatre arts, but it goes a little too far past that point. It goes to the point of doing everything for the college such as protect its ecosystem and have a special gifts of social and geographical skills. It’s a little too much ask if you tell me. Another reason why I don’t think I’m fit to be at Bowdoin College is that it is way too far for me. I’m better off being next to my home and family rather than be off to Maine. Bowdoin College may be a nice and pleasant college, but I would rather stick with my state and current college that I am attending. The last thing that I have to say about Bowdoin College is that it’s acceptance rate is by 9.2%. It is very low acceptance for anyone who’s trying to join the college. Since it is a private college, I would make sense why it is very hard to get accepted into it. The GPA requirement is 3.93 or higher and you should a score of 1510 in SAT and a score of 34 in ACT. That college is truly looking for people who can actually go above average or excel with an academic gift of learning. Those are the manny reasons why I think Bowdoin College isn’t the college for me.
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