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Freedom to Interpret – Reading for Wednesday

0 Commentsby   |  02.23.10  |  Announcements, Film and Visual Art, Interpretation and Purpose, Nonfiction (Essays), Thesis

For Wednesday, please print a copy of Roland Barthes’s very short (3-page) essay “The Death of the Author” from the Link below and read the essay before class. I encourage you to annotate your copy of the text—underline key lines or phrases, write notes in the margin, and be able to articulate the thesis of the essay.

The Death of the Author

Also, please be prepared in class on Wednesday to discuss the topic you selected for on the viewing guide for the movie Doubt.

Reading Assignment for Wednesday, February 17

0 Commentsby   |  02.15.10  |  Announcements, Nonfiction (Essays)

In addition to reading “The America I Love” by Elie Wiesel in The Conscious Reader (835-37), please read and be prepared to discuss the following 1988 essay by Peggy McIntosh on Wednesday, February 17:

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Elie Wiesel claims in “The America I Love” that racism “has vanished from the American scene” (836). McIntosh takes a different approach. How do you account for the difference in these perspectives?

Poetry Analysis

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0 Commentsby   |  01.24.10  |  Announcements, Interpretation and Purpose, Poetry, Rhetorical Analyses

Part of the reading assignment for Monday includes poetry.  Poetry analysis may be new to most undergraduates, so to help you become more comfortable when writing about poetry, please read this Two Page Handout on Poetry Analysis.

Uploading Documents to Files

0 Commentsby   |  01.22.10  |  Announcements, Other Resources, Rhetorical Analyses

To upload an RA or essay to Files, click on the Files icon for ENGL 112.08 shown in the Courses section of your MyACUpage.  The Files icon has an image of an open folder with a checkmark on the outside cover page:

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In Files, you should see a folder called “Dropbox.”  Double-click on the Dropbox folder.  Then, you should see an icon on the right side of the screen called “Upload.”  Click on the Upload icon and upload the file from your computer that contains your rhetorical analysis.

Please save your work in Microsoft Word format before submitting your file.  The electronic version of your work should have the same formatting as you would use when turning in a hard copy.

Let me know if you have any trouble using Files, and I would be glad to help.

Post to the Blog by Email (Postie)

0 Commentsby   |  01.22.10  |  Announcements, Other Resources, Rhetorical Analyses

To post an entry to the Class Blog, I believe the only option is to use the Postie feature. All you do is place your writing content in an email and send it to:

1020_ENGL11208@groupmail.acu.edu

Some guidelines for blog posts:

  • Please write an original title for your post in the subject line of your email.
  • Please write about only the texts assigned as course readings. Consider posting RAs to the blog to get feedback on your writing or start a conversation about a text.
  • This is a way to publish your writing to the class. Please edit your language using the same care you would use in writing any essay for a grade.
  • If you use quotes or refer to details from a text, please cite the page numbers (for stories) or line numbers (for poetry) just like you would in an essay.
  • Use paragraphs (and topic sentences for paragraphs) in the same way you would for an RA or essay.
  • You may include images in your post, but they must be appropriate and applicable to the literary text you are writing about.
  • Feel free to include a copy of an RA or an essay as an attachment to the email.

See also ACU’s Guidelines and Best Practices on blog posts.

Reading and RA for Friday, Jan. 22

0 Commentsby   |  01.20.10  |  Announcements, Short Stories

Please read the short story “Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Connor for the RA due on Friday, January 22.  This story is not in the reader, so please click on the link above to access the text of the story.

For Friday, please also read the short section on “Quotations” from A Sequence for Academic Writing (44-53).

Welcome to the Class Blog

0 Commentsby   |  01.07.10  |  Announcements

Throughout the semester, I will post entries on this site to encourage conversations and critical thinking about the stories, essays, poems, and films we will encounter in the course.  Feel free to comment on posts, submit your own posts, and generally engage the conversation of this blog.

Again, welcome to the course—I hope you enjoy writing about literary texts this semester.

Welcome to the Class Blog

0 Commentsby   |  01.07.10  |  Announcements

Throughout the semester, I will post entries on this site to encourage conversations and critical thinking about the stories, essays, poems, and films we will encounter in the course.  Feel free to comment on posts, submit your own posts, and generally engage the conversation of this blog.

Note: I expect blog contributors to treat other class members with decency and respect as brothers and sisters in Christ.  One goal of this course is learning how to communicate ideas about literature to a university-level audience, without alienating your readers.  Consider the tone of your language before commenting on a post by another writer.

Again, welcome to the course—I hope you enjoy writing about literary texts this semester.

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