Assignments for Week # 3 ENL 121 (Vavra)
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Due In-class
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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
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" 
Link # 1 Link # 2
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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