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| Current chapter: "Responding
to Literature"
in your text (pages 495-537) |
"Great literature is simply language charged with
meaning to the utmost possible degree." Ezra Pound, How to Read
In Class Agenda:
 | View video: advice from previous research paper
writers |
| Play with PowerPoint -- organize your thoughts for the
research paper by learning to use this
tool.
 | Choose a background suitable to your topic. |
| Make a title slide with your spiffy "colonated" title
and your byline. |
| Make a slide that concisely states your thesis |
| Make at least one more that gives three reasons why your
readers should agree with you about your thesis. |
| Make a concluding statement. |
| Time permitting, we will show these on the overhead! |
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Responding to
Literature |
| Read "A Worn Path" in your text. It
is also available online here. In order to fully appreciate the
short story, you should read it more than once--preferably three times.
Make notes of interesting images and writing techniques. |
Due Monday:
| The first draft
of your persuasive research paper is due in class (typed and complete, in a folder with all prewriting and
sources) at 2:00 sharp. Students who arrive late with their papers will
lose 1/2 credit for the day. Students receive points both for
participating in peer review (30), and for having their first draft completed
(50). If you do not have a complete first draft, you will not be allowed to
participate in peer review. |
| Print out "Techniques
for Responding to Literature" and review. |
For next Wednesday:
| Make necessary corrections on your first draft, and
submit on the following Tuesday,
secured in a folder with all prewriting, sources, earlier drafts, and peer
comments.
If you expect to have an illness, injury, major romantic breakup, or
death in your family that week, plan on submitting your paper in ADVANCE.
Students who arrive late with their papers will not
receive full credit. Final Draft by deadline: 50 points. |
| Current Event -- Find an interesting current event,
preferably
in your field of interest. Try to find something that isn't obviously
well known by everyone else -- find a "gem" or "jewel" of lesser-known
information that will be intriguing to the rest of the class. Print out
or keep the article for your reference. Type or handwrite a short
summary of the event on an index card. Include the current event number
and a correct citation to the source. Only the card needs to be
turned in. |
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