Essay #3 Guidelines

Peer-Editing Day: December 3
Due Date: December 10

1. Read the book "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.

2. We will have watched the corresponding film in class; if you missed it, get it & see it.
3. Then, you are to write an essay in which you explain whether you preferred the book or the film, defending your position with specific reasons.
4. Important: Work in (briefly) a discussion of ONE legitimate review into your essay, as a basis for comparison (pro/con, agree/disagree). On a separate bibliography page, cite the source of your review (online or print) with complete information.
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Note: You are not just comparing for the sake of mentioning differences. Anyone could fill up a paper like this. Your job is to be selective, taking care to note differences in defense of your position/argument.
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The basics:· This paper must be 3 complete pages (minimum) in length. Anything less, and I will drop a letter grade.· All papers must be typed, double-spaced, standard margins, and stapled.· Number all pages.· Name, date, English 101, and a TITLE must appear on your title page. The title page is never considered page 1.

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round 2

round 1

ADJUSTMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

OK, gang - here's the switch:

November 5 = Peer Editing for Essay #2

November 12 = Essay #2 due

I will make the change official on the syllabus itself tomorrow. But there it is, official HERE.

My logic is that you all need a bit more prep on this 2nd essay.

Gang...

Homework: Email me your advertisements as I requested last class. Pronto.
If you've already done so, thank you; you're awesome.

As I said before, peer-editing is NOT on the next class.

I'm in the process of refiguring the syllabus slightly, so you have a little more time to
get a grip on Essay #2. Check back Monday night (October 20). I'll post another announcement
as to the adjusted dates for peer-editing and Essay #2 due date.

vintage ad sites (from students) - for example

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/travel-ads-1950s

http://vintage-ads.com/AdDetail.asp?ItemNum=1950-232

Ad Examples

1969 Cigarette Ad

1964 VW Beetle Ad

1950's BK Ad

1970's McDonald's Ad

1951 Philip Morris Ad

1969 Air Travel Ad

7-UP 1950s

Motorcycle late-60s/early 70s

KFC early 70s

ESSAY #2 GUIDELINES

Advertising Analysis (Essay #2)
English 101
Peer-Editing Day: October 22
Due Date: October 29

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Select 3 print advertisements (full page & from magazines/internet preferably)
{I strongly recommend using flickr.com and google.com for research, aside from actual magazines}


Important: The advertisements must be linked either through (a) the type of product they represent (by brand and/or by type) or (b) according to the message that they are conveying.


Also Important: The advertisements must be from diverse time periods.


Write an essay about the Images & Text within the ads.

Essentially, your job is two-fold: (a) to convey how effective these ads are (whether they are persuasive or not) and (b) to address how the advertising of this brand/product has changed (or not) throughout a time period.The basics:
This paper must be 4 complete pages (minimum) in length. Anything less, and I will drop a letter grade.
All papers must be typed, double-spaced, standard margins, and stapled.
Number all pages.
Name, date, English 101, and a TITLE must appear on your title page. The title page is never considered page 1.
INCLUDE COPIES OF THE ADS IN BACK OF YOUR PAPER – STAPLED, OF COURSE.

OCTOBER 1 CLASS CANCELLED

From the email I sent last night - hopefully everybody got it, but I'm re-posting here to make sure:

Gang-

Tomorrow night class will be cancelled, as I've been carrying a bug and feeling run-down and I don't want to bring that to class.

So, this means that your Essay #1 will be due the following week.

In addition, I will continue replying to each of you about your drafts. If you haven't sent your draft for my review, SEND IT.

Take care,

JL

HOMEWORK

Read Annie Dillard's "The Chase" at
http://www.mpsaz.org/rmhs/staff/dmsokol/101/assigned-readings/files/annie_dillard_the_chase2.pdf

Print out and bring the essay to class for discussion & in-class questions.

HOMEWORK

Print out, read, and bring the following essay to class for discussion:
"Shipping Out" by David Foster Wallace
http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf

I will be supplying questions in class for you to discuss AND write on, so be prepared!

Essay #1 Guidelines

*Peer-Editing: September 24

** Due Date: October 1

Instructions:

You are to write a personal narrative essay which should be a non-fictional story relating to your life. While the essay does not require resolution (i.e. a tidy ending), the story should reflect some sort of change that has taken place - however subtle or prominent.

In addition, what you recount should reflect a certain measure of self-awareness; it's not just in recounting action, but also in how you recount the action that indicates you have thoughts on what happened.

Important: Individualize your details. The story you're telling is personal, and therefore should attempt to fully reflect the uniqueness of your experience; the experience itself might be common, but the details and certain aspects might/should be brought into highly-individualized focus.

And the story can be anywhere from uplifting to depressing. I'm just after solid writing.

Big rule: No prom, graduation, or birth stories, please. I have read plenty of these stories in many years, and traditionally they all follow the same pattern with a neat beginning, middle, and end. To use the horrible cliche: think outside the box!

The basics:

The paper must be 4 complete pages (minimum) in length. Anything less, and I will drop a letter grade.

Typed, double-spaced, standard margins; number all pages.

Name, date, English 101 and a TITLE must appear on your title page.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ON HIGH

Gang-

The edition of The Little Seagull Handbook that we should all have is the SECOND edition.
(There's a little "2e" on the front cover, if memory serves me right.)

So, if you've gotten the book already from the bookstore and got the 1st edition, exchange it immediately for the 2nd edition.

-JL

HOMEWORK

• Read Orwell's story "Shooting An Elephant" by clicking here. OR Google to find the essay elsewhere. Answer the following questions (short answers, complete sentences):

a. How does Orwell build suspense in this story?

b. How does Orwell manipulate time in this story? (Consider if there are parts of the story where time seems to accelerate or slow down.)

c. What is your opinion of the narrator? Is he heroic? Cowardly? Honest? Deceitful? Provide an opinion AND back it up with examples.

d. Is the narrator a changed person by this experience and if so, how? What has he learned?

Be prepared to discuss this essay in detail, thoughtfully, when we meet up again.

PRINT OUT THE ORWELL ESSAY & YOUR HOMEWORK; BRING BOTH TO CLASS.

SYLLABUS

SYLLABUS

ENGLISH 101

COLLEGE COMPOSITION I

(CRN 95679)
(Section Number 4E6)

Fall 2014 SEMESTER

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Instructor: John Lane

(Freshman Transition Program)

• Room: LA 4317
• Meeting Days & Time: Wednesdays 6:30 - 9:10 p.m.

To contact me: Email me at solar.flares@yahoo.com

Please put "English 101" in the subject heading!

Speak with me after class; make an appointment; stay in contact!

Course Goals

A. Course Description:
ENGL 101 provides instruction in a writing process that will enable students to develop a topic, organize their ideas, write a draft, revise, edit, and proofread; to access, evaluate, incorporate, and document outside material as a means to develop a topic; and to continue to improve use of grammar, and language.

B. Overall Course Objectives:
Upon complete of this course, students will be able to do the following:
1. employ a recursive writing process that includes invention, planning, drafting, revising, proofreading and editing;
2. work collaboratively with peers to plan, develop, and carry out writing projects and provide constructive feedback;
3. write well-organized, unified, coherent essays with clear and complete thesis statements that express a purpose;
4. think critically and support the thesis with details, examples, reasons, and other evidence;
5. employ a variety of rhetorical strategies and modes to express complex ideas;
6. vary sentence structure and length;
7. use language in a manner appropriate to a given audience;
8. conduct research; access and choose appropriate sources from standard library resources which may be in a variety of formats both print and electronic;
9. evaluate sources (which may be print or electronic) by examining authenticity, currency, validity, and reliability;
10. incorporate outside material into essays by summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing correctly;
11. provide documentation for sources with a Works Cited page and parenthetical citations, using the MLA format; and
12. conform to the grammar, punctuation, and spelling rules of standard written English with a minimum of errors.

C. Major Topics
1. Audience awareness
2. Writing as a recursive process
3. Essay organization and development
4. Unity, coherence and clarity in written language
5. Rhetorical strategies
6. Sentence variety
7. Grammar, punctuation and usage review
8. Summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting
9. Documenting and citing both print and electronic sources in MLA format
10. Writing the research paper that employs a variety of print and electronic sources
11. Revising
12. Editing and proofreading
13. The impact of technology on writing

D. Rationale: Everyone of my students is a writer, whether they admit it or not. Within the confines of this course, I want to equip you with the enhanced ability and confidence to apply what you've learned here into other courses. There's no getting around writing, so put your best foot forward here and start walking! (Cheesy, I know.)

Text/Materials: 

*online writings & hand-outs from instructor.

* The Little Seagull Handbook (required for all 052/101 students)
*Novel for Essay #3 assignment (not in bookstore): t.b.a.

Writing Assignments:

Essay #1: Personal Narrative

Essay #2: Advertising Analysis

Essay #3: Novel/Film Comparison

Essay #4: Your Review

HOMEWORK:

All homework is due on the class day after it has been assigned, unless otherwise noted.

I will also announce assignments that are not necessarily in the syllabus, so pay attention!

I will collect all homework assignments and factor them toward your class participation.

Attendance Policy:

The English Department at CCBC Essex limits the number of classes that a student can miss and still pass a writing class. In a class meeting once a week, like this one, a student must not miss more than 2 classes. (Exceptions: In very rare cases involving serious, well-documented illnesses or personal emergencies, students may miss more than the specified number of classes ONLY with approval from first the instructor and then either the English Department Head or the Writing Program Director. Requests must be made in writing or in person.)

Late Policy:

1. Papers drop a letter grade for every class date that they are late.

2. In order for the peer workshop of essays to work smoothly, essays must be submitted on the due date .

Plagiarism: [policy from Dept. Admin.]

Academic Integrity Part of each student’s education requires learning how to use information correctly. Using other people’s words or ideas without giving proper credit to the source is plagiarism and is a serious offense. Students who plagiarize unknowingly should be shown their error and instructed in the proper use and attribution of information. Students who continue to plagiarize, however, may fail an assignment, fail a course, be dismissed from a program, or ultimately be expelled from the college. Examples of plagiarism include: • submitting written work taken from another source as one’s own. Examples of other sources are material from a published author or from the Internet. • including in original work undocumented quotations or passages from another writer • including someone else’s original ideas, opinions, or research ideas without giving him/her credit • paraphrasing without attribution.

Grading: [Will update this portion to align with below]

The grade you have earned is based upon the quality of the essays that you have turned in to me.

The final grade is broken down as follows:

* THREE ESSAYS - EACH WORTH 25% = TOTAL OF 75% OF GRADE

* CLASS PARTICIPATION (discussion, class work, homework) = 25% OF GRADE

* REVISIONS OF ESSAYS: You are allowed to revise your essays (one revision per each essay); this is strictly optional. When factored together, this means that the original essay is then worth 10% and the revised essay is worth 10% = still totaling 20% for that one essay. Note that revisions of essays are due on specific due dates; revisions will not be accepted after those due dates. Revisions only apply to the first TWO essays, of course.

Weekly Assignments

August 27: Introduction/Syllabus/Student Info. Sheets

September 3: Rudiments/ Essay #1 Guidelines distributed

September 10: Personal narrative

September 17: Further Personal narrative

September 24: Peer-Editing Day
October 1: CLASS CANCELLED

October 8: *Essay #1 Due! (Essay #2 Guidelines distributed) Ad Analysis 1/ Thesis-Intro. Discussion

October 15: Ad Analysis 2

October 22: Ad Analysis: Group 1 (first 8)
October 29: Last Ad Analysis: Group 2 (second 8)
November 5: Peer-Editing for Essay #2
November 12: Essay #2 DUE! 
November 19: Film (Essay #3 Guidelines Distributed)
November 26: NO CLASS; THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 3: Peer-Editing for Essay #3
December 10: Essay #3 DUE

 December 17: Revisions for Essays #1 and #2 due!!!


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Revision Due Dates


Revised Essay #1 and #2 due no later than December 17 (or sooner!).

~~I will not accept revisions after that assigned due date.~~

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Note: Syllabus is subject to change, and proper notification of changes will be given

in advance!

*If you have a disability/handicap that might affect your performance in class,

please let me know in advance so that I may try to accomodate you.* 
Valuable Resources:

Academic Achievement Center (tutoring begins after the first week of classes, and a special schedule with be distributed for this group)

Cook Library, Room 524

410-704-2291

Disability Support Services (students receiving accommodations will have a MOU that will outline those accommodations)

Administration Building, Room 232

410-704-2638

Dowell Health Center

Dowell Hall

410-704-2466

Counseling Center

Glen Esk

410-704-2512

FALL 2014 Academic Calendar at
http://towson.edu/registrar/calendars/

NOTE: 

We follow Towson’s final exam schedule, which can be found at the following link:http://www.towson.edu/registrar/calendars/exams.asp