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English 232 section 35We will not have class this Saturday, April 2nd.
We will resume discussing Achebe and scheduled readings on April 9th.
English 232-36 Will meet as regularly scheduled.
102 students: Revision Guidelines For Final Portfolio*Your final portfolio is due the last day of regular class. (See syllabus)
*Revision is optional: if you choose not to revise, handing in your four original papers will suffice.
What if you can't find the original graded paper? Then include a signed note saying that you misplaced the paper, and include a copy of it.
*Revision doesn't guarantee a lift in the grade, but it is likely that the work you do will improve the paper, thus improving the grade.
*Any revisions must be labeled "Revision" at the top of the first page of the paper.
*It must include revision guide, revised paper, original graded paper, rough draft and peer review. It must be turned in a pocket folder.
*If it doesn't have the items listed above, then it will not be eligible for potential grade improvement.
*Make the revisions and corrections and keep track of where and why they occur. You will have a separate page called "Revision Guide," which will direct me to all the improvements you made in your paper. I will then look at the revised paper and the original to see how your paper has improved.
*What are some things that you might have changed?
Spelling and punctuation errors, quoting format, MLA style and citation, content, thesis, support, layout, development, peer review, rough draft, etc…
*If you had an A- on the original, your list of changes might be rather short.
If you had a C, it might be a page or two.
*Remember to give me the what and where and why behind each change (i.e. spelling, 3rd paragraph, I misspelled Karma by using a C. I didn't know that was how it was spelled).
*Note: while doing the revision may not guarantee a grade improvement, it certainly can't hurt. In other words, if the unlikely event of your revisions weakening the paper were to occur, I would just keep the original grade.
Eng 102- Final Paper and Presentation GuidelinesNow that you have written an initial research paper, you will be expanding it a bit, from 3-5 pages to 8-10 pages.
In this paper you will bring in 5 new sources of your choosing. Each of these sources you must use at least once.
So your final paper will have
9 sources (minimum) with at least one being from a book and one from a magazine/journal
8-10 pages
MLA work cited and parenthetical citation
In terms of content, you may have taken a definitive position on your topic. You may also be somewhat undecided. The important thing is that you give equal input from both sides of your topic. You must address the opposition respectfully. Your paper should be fair to all sides, and balanced in terms of sources as much as possible.
Your grade will be based on content and will account for 80% of the grade, and the technical side including grammar, punctuation, will account for the rest.
For a good example of an A paper, see the sample MLA paper in the St. Martin's Handbook.
Note, considering the length factor: the St Martin's sample paper is 5 pages longer than necessary, while the sample paper in Writing Arguments is C+ level considering the lack of length.
Failure to include proper MLA work cited and parenthetical citation can result in a drastic reduction in the grade, or failure of the paper.
Presentation guidelines: You will discuss your paper for 5-10 minutes reading key parts of the paper, summarizing your paper to your fellow classmates. You may use audio-visual aids, etc… Be prepared to answer questions, and be willing to spur discussion if needed. There will be an absolute cut off time of 10 minutes enforced if we are running short on time. The grade will be plain and simple, you do it for five minutes with some sort of planning, you will get full credit. If you go up and are unprepared, you will get a lesser grade, and if you don't do it, you will get zero credit.
102 students- If you are having trouble finding info about the sunscreen speech, check out these sites listed below, especially if you are covering option A... these might be useful in looking at the hoax aspect
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa081097.htm
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/vonnegut.htm
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/sunscreen.html
For those looking at the parody aspect, you might want to compare and contrast with other parodies. Perhaps a song parody, or poem parody.
Look up on Google or yahoo or your preferred search engine to find info.
suggested keywords: Sunscreen, speech, Mary Schmich, parody, song,
You can try any combination and they will probably lead to some good hits.
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The midterm was a summary and response to the actual sunscreen speech itself, but you could take the information from that essay and integrate it in to your new paper regardless of which option you choose.
Make sure it is cohesive and has a focus. Make sure you use MLA style in text citation and have a works cited page for the sources you use.
English 102Paper #3
Take your Midterm (Summary and Response to The Graduation Speech Column) and expand it to a typed 3-5 paged double space essay.
Option A: You may go on the internet and find information in general about this speech, and turn this paper into a critical analysis of internet hoaxes, or graduation speeches.
Option B: You may compare Mary Schmich's (Chicago Tribune) parody of graduation speeches with song parodies (such as those of Weird Al Yankovic, Eric Idle, or other comic artists.) For this, you may also need to go on the web to find the lyrics.
For either option, you will use MLA style to cite your sources in-text and in the work cited.
Due Dates Rough Draft March 28,
Final Copy March 30
The speech is fairly easy to find on the net. Go to google or yahoo and type key words: Sunscreen, speech, mary schmich. You should bring it up.
It is copyright-protected, otherwise I'd post it here.
English 232 students
The questions from the first quiz given back on 2/12 are
1. Name the year of publication of Gulliver's Travels?
2. "Let us go then you and I, with the stars spread out against the sky..."
name the author.
3. The name of the boat at the beginning of the Heart of Darkness is:
4. The name for the humans in Gulliver's Travels Part 4 is:
5. Name the characters who commit "love-suicide?"
Identification: The Horror, the horror!
ENGLISH 232
We are going over this in class tomorrow, so just in case you are absent, here it is.
This includes the Essay Portion of the exam which is a take home essay. That is at the bottom of this entry.
English 232- Spring 2005
Study Guide for Mid Term and Take Home Portion of Exam
Authors, Titles and Concepts
T.S. Eliot- Love Song of J. Alfred Pr urock
Wordsworth- Defintion of Poetry
Celan- Death Fugue
Anti-Hero-
Nihilism-
Enlightenment
De Sade- Libertines and the French Revolution
Wollstonecraft- Vindication of the Rights of Women
Dostoevsky- Notes From The Underground
Swift- Gulliver's Travels: Yahoos, Reason, Passion, Houynhms, Satire
Story of the Stone= Chinese, Love Suicides= Japanese, Tale of Kieu= Vietnam
Genres: Prose fiction, Non- Fiction, Poetry,
Satire
Romantics
Myth
Dickenson- "I heard a Fly buzz before I died,"
Ghalib- Ghazal
Baudelaire- Get High
Du
Leopardi
Kant
Rousseau
Thoreau
Nature
Sample Identification: "Dare I eat a peach?"
Answer- Eliot- Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
In this poem, the speaker is questioning his mortality. He feels the wears of aging and social discomfort. The speaker is questioning himself whether he can be an active participant in his world. The "peach" is perhaps symbolic of a lost sensuality.
Essay Question- Bring this to class on March12th. Write a 2 page closed reading of the lines: "We live as we dream alone" from "Heart of Darkness." Explain the context as it occurs in the passage and then in the novel. What are the philosophical ramifications? What does Marlow mean? Typed and double-spaced. The grade for this portion will depend on the thoroughness of the content and analysis, but grammar and punctuation will be looked at as secondary considerations. Essay- 50%, Multiple Choice and Identification 50%
