{"id":9642,"date":"2015-06-22T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?page_id=9642"},"modified":"2015-08-14T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:05:11","slug":"bezerra-instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/journal\/past-issues\/issue-7\/bezerra\/bezerra-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Clara Bezerra wrote her exceptional research paper for WR 150: \u201cBurning Questions,\u201d an experimental section of WR 150 that asks students to pursue a semester-long research project on a topic of their choosing within the framework of \u201chuman expression.\u201d The research project culminates in the contribution of a new perspective to the ongoing scholarly conversation about the chosen topic as expressed in a research paper and in a public intellectual essay. Clara\u2019s research paper addresses the volatile issue of Westernization in Brazil and offers a well-informed, culturally-sensitive challenge to the prevailing idea that western influence has been a uniformly negative factor in the evolution of modern Brazilian society. Her paper demonstrates a thorough, considered response to varied genres of source material. Clara\u2019s remarkably insightful thinking, combined with her personal interest in the subject of her native culture, allowed her internalize the idea of the conversational model of argumentation and motivated her to study the scholarship on her topic as a search for questions, rather than just answers. Her openness to new viewpoints and her commitment to classroom citizenship elevated her own experience in the course, as well as that of her peers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014\u00a0SAMANTHA MYERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WR\u00a0150:\u00a0<span>Burning Questions: Human Expression<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Clara Bezerra wrote her exceptional research paper for WR 150: \u201cBurning Questions,\u201d an experimental section of WR 150 that asks students to pursue a semester-long research project on a topic of their choosing within the framework of \u201chuman expression.\u201d The research project culminates in the contribution of a new perspective to the ongoing scholarly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":9599,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9777,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9642\/revisions\/9777"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}