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Carol McFrederick Click on following terms for details of class syllabi, assignments and standards. Summer B 2007:
ENC 1102 Literary Analysis: Syllabus and Policies Project Plan for Your Exploratory Essay
READING LIST
Texts: Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry and Drama (compact edition), Robert DiYanni Approved style manual. Historical, Psychological, Sociological and Mythological Perspectives, pp.1360-1370, pp.1375-77. Shakespeare, Hamlet, pp. 941-1051. Updike, "A&P," pp. 25-31 Chopin, "The Story of an Hour," pp. 32-37. O’Connor, "Guests of the Nation," pp. 44-54. Mason, "Shiloh," pp. 63-71. Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily," pp. 74-80. Welty, "A Worn Path," pp. 87-90. Poems and commentary, pp. 393-408. Browning, "My Last Duchess," p. 415 Rich, "Rape," p.428 Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," p. 433. Wright, "Woman to Child," p. 441 Frost, "The Road Not Taken,: p.446 Donne, "The Sun Rising," p. 450. All of Emily Dickinson, pp. 537-556.
Research Paper 1102 For your literary analysis research paper, you may explore
any work, poem, story, or play, which is contained in DiYanni but is not
assigned on the syllabus and was written before 1960.
Your research should seek find a better understanding of the work by
answering a question about the culture in which it was written. As you begin, you will be required to write a research plan to explain the purpose of your research. The plan should include: 1. The name of the work and its author. 2. The aspect of the work for which your research will seek to illuminate. 3. A question about the historical background or culture your research will attempt to answer. 4. A preliminary bibliography
using MLA form and containing at least ten potential sources. NOTE: The plan must be approved by me.
Also, in order to receive a letter grade for your paper, the approved
plan must be attached when you submit it. Otherwise,
you may receive a zero. The essay (1500 –2000 words) must be typed and in the MLA format. Use a title page (see MLA) and staple the pages together before you come to class -- no plastic folders.
Portfolio
Specifications This term you will be writing
numerous drafts of about 500 words (in class) for numerous assignments over
topics related to various works of literature.
Later you will revise and develop one or more these drafts into
essay(s) of about 750. Thus, by the
end of the term, your portfolio (a file folder designed to hold 8 1/2” x 11”
paper) will contain:
1. All first drafts.
2. All revisions.
3. Informal outlines (when relevant). 4. A
self-critique of your work explaining which draft of which essay you wish to be
counted for your grade. The portfolio must contain at
least a first draft for every assignment, but you may choose any essay to
focus on. For example, if you know
you particularly need to work on basic mechanics, your best strategy may be to
choose an early assignment so that you will have time to get help from the
Learning Center. Be sure that the draft you choose to count as your grade is clearly labeled with your name and the assignment. English 1101 Fall 2003 Click Here
ENC 1101 ---- Your Portfolio The goal of this class is not for you to produce a few fabulous essays but for you to understand the writing process and to develop a method for coping with and performing well in a variety of writing circumstances. Creating your personal writing portfolio will help you discover and reflect upon the methods that work best for you as an individual writer. Because the process of keeping a portfolio enables you to make copious revisions, you will be given most of your writing assignments during the early part of the term. This way you will have several first drafts from which to choose candidates for revision and ample time to revise and revise and revise and revise….. Restrictions and Requirements: · Keep your work in an 8 ˝” x 11” folder. (Any other size will not be accepted.) ( Do not use plastic covers of any type.) · Your folder must include the first draft of every assignment. · Your folder should contain all drafts of each essay assigned this term. If you revise by changing the shape of your work while word processing, remember to print out each time you believe you have made sufficient radical changes to constitute a revision.. · Any revision submitted for a grade must be printed. · The portfolio is an ongoing project, so you can make no excuse for handing it in late and no late submissions will be accepted either at midterm or at the end of the semester. Choices: · At midterm and at the end of the term you must choose one draft of one essay to be graded. (You may choose the same essay twice.) · You may include pictures or other decorations on or within your portfolio as long as these neither substitute for nor distract from the words. · You may write as many revisions as you wish. · As long as a draft is not being submitted for a grade, it maybe handwritten. Grading: · The entire portfolio at midterm will count 20% of your grade for the term. (15% your chosen essay and 5% the quality of the portfolio as an indicator of your writing process.) · The last submission of the portfolio will count 40% of your grade for the term. (30% your chosen essay and 10% the quality of the portfolio as an indicator of your writing process and awareness.
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The three sorts of entries in this journal will be (as assigned) personal experience, a record of writing and other specific assignments that arise during the semester. #1 August 27 This entry will discuss my work on an essay that I am co-authoring in hopes of publication in a special interest magazine. Especially since I am one of two people working on this essay, articulating its purpose is important so that Yan my co-author and myself will be able to communicate better. Just as a composition student might be tempted to think of the purpose as simply getting a good, I could say that getting the work published is the purpose. And certainly that is a consideration but it is one involving audience more than purpose. Yan and I do not have an easy time boiling our purpose into one or two sentences. We are writing about visiting a martial arts master in China and about the philosophy the man taught us. Also, we want to give a little of the relevant history of the man’s village and we want to describe our experience in meeting him and seeing the village. After much discussion we decide to focus on our working title “Chen Boxiang [the man] and Xiao Jiao [the martial art]” with the idea that we will write about the man and the village only in the ways that these help inform the audience about the martial art called xiao jiao. #2 August 28 Yesterday mars was supposed to be the closest to the earth in 60,000 years and to be visible to the naked eye. In the morning I went outside to look to the west hoping to see it as the moon set but the sky was too overcast. Then last night I happened to be at the science museum where 100’s of children with heads wrapped in aluminum foil and adults with blue ping-pong balls bounced on wires from their heads as they crowded in line for a glimpse through the museum’s telescope. I would have liked to have seen this once-in-a-life-time phenomenon, but my aversion to the long line was stronger than my desire. Maybe I will find a picture on a website.
Usually students either love or hate a journal requirement. I guess some people are relatively indifferent, but those who either entirely resent the idea and those who find it an incredible growth experience seem to have such strong emotions that I hold my breath in hope that in your class the lovers (at least by the end of the term) will out-number the haters. I’ll even go so far as to follow the assignment myself and keep one too. Here are the requirements: · Size: 81/2” x 11” · Color and style: up to you, as long as you do not use the notebook or folder for any other purpose · Quantity: at least three entries per week except week eight and the weeks after Thanksgiving Holiday · Layout: date and entry number in upper-right corner of each page The main purpose of this journal is to keep a written record of your growth as a writer. Since writing includes the subject, the reader and the writer, this will also be a journal about your experiences this semester as a person. Your entries must include at least one entry for each writing assignment reflecting on the writing of the essay and the changes you make or plan to make as you revise. Also, as the term progresses, you will be given some specific assignments to be included among your “three per week.”
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