| Assignments for Week # 3 |
ENL 121 (Vavra) |
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist
on knowing,
the rest is mere sheep-herding.
-- Ezra Pound
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Due |
In-class |
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to class. Simply leave them on my desk, with or without your name, before
class starts. |
M/T.
Jan. 23/24
W3A |
Be prepared to take Cornell Notes.
1. Print the MS Word Assignment for Major
Paper # 1. [Note that this link leads to an html page that includes
links other than the one to the assignment.]
2. Read Chopin's "The Story
of an Hour"
3. You do not have the drafts, etc., from these sample papers,
but review the MP Checklist -- which points would the writers of the sample
papers NOT have lost?
Grade the two sample papers, using the grading
sheets for Major Paper #1. Use the left (student's column) for sample #1,
and the right (instructor's) column for sample #2. Put a question mark
to the left of each item on the grading sheets that you do not understand.
4. Study the OWL
Online Writing Lab: Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format |
Collect Cornell Notes?
Questions?
Collect grading sheets
The "R" drive
Style Penalty Points
Discuss story and sample papers
Sample Paper # 1
Sample Paper # 2
Discuss the OWL |
W/Th
Jan. 25/26
W3B
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Be prepared to take Cornell Notes.
1. In Writing about Literature,
study
the pages on "Research and Documentation" (p. 60-63).
2. Read John Updike's "A and P"
Our primary focus here will be symbols and point-of-view. Consider the
following:
a. For symbols, make three lists (on paper), one of all the references
to animals, one of all the references to foods, and one of interesting
words that describe the three girls..
b. For point-of-view, (on the same paper), identify the point-of-view
used in the story and briefly explain why it might affect one's interpretation
of the story.
c. What is important about the plot?
d. Why is the setting of this story symbolically important?
e. Characterize Sammy.
f. What is the tone of this story?
Optional: Browse or study "A
Study of Focal Sentences in Professional Writing." |
Collect Cornell Notes?
Quiz;
Discuss "A and P"
Framing
sources (1).ppt
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