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Discern.

verb \di-ˈsərn, -ˈzərn\
to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend

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Senior year

Another quote coming your way: "But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have bought with your poverty a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get." This quote comes from Annie Dillard, courtesy of an essay from English 325 and summarizes the commonality among my senior year pieces.

This quote and the selected pieces represent my development and maturation, to some extent, of an ability where I can apply the knowledge I have gained to discern the world around me in new more inclusive way that absorbs multiple viewpoints. I try to showcase this in the cover letter for an internship by acknowledging the role science writing plays in the public sphere. I selected my internship writing piece because it was a direct application of a skill I learned freshman year of college to the real world. Finally, the culmination of my college writing career is my capstone piece for Writing 400 where I discerned my thesis through the writing process even though I had set out with something entirely different in mind.

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