Homework:
1. Read the following essays, taking notes on what they teach you about how to write a "Definition" or "Classification" style essay:
- “Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth” (239-243)
- “Four Ways to Talk About Literature” (206-207)
- “Four Sides to Every Story” (208-209)
- “The Lion, the Witch and the Metaphor” (210-211)
2. Look with some care through the terms on "Constructing Sentences" on pages 645 through 653 - maybe take a few notes.
- You should be familiar with what these terms mean: subject, predicate, parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections), "compound" (subject or predicate), direct object, indirect object, phrases of different kinds, clauses of different kinds, sentences of different kinds (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex).
3. Work on the Research Paper you have chosen to write about. Some of you still need to figure out exactly what angle you are going to take. AND please read your email. I may send you possible sources, may make suggestions or ask you for information I have not received from you.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Homework for 9/22 - Due 9/27
Turn in a page TYPED with the following:
1. The Topic you intend to do your Argumentative Research Paper on - having cleared it with me. Email me if we haven't talked about it.
2. Your tentative "thesis" - the point of view you intend to argue in the paper
3. A list of 4-5 sources you have found to use including one that argues a point of view COUNTER to yours.
4. A TENTATIVE outline that should follow this general pattern - you can make changes as you do research and think it through:
a. General background (big-picture) on the topic
b. Your thesis (the focused argument you will make on some smaller part of the larger topic)
c. Points you will try to make - paragraph by paragraph
d. Best counter-argument made to your argument and why you find it unconvincing
e. Restatement of your argument and conclusion
PLEASE get these things done because after next class, the research paper will fall into the background a little. There will be other assignments and things to study. You will need to continue to work on this ALONG WITH all this other stuff. The draft of the research paper will be due OCTOBER 27th. You can ask me questions anytime about the work you are doing, about problems you may be having, but the deadline must be kept.
1. The Topic you intend to do your Argumentative Research Paper on - having cleared it with me. Email me if we haven't talked about it.
2. Your tentative "thesis" - the point of view you intend to argue in the paper
3. A list of 4-5 sources you have found to use including one that argues a point of view COUNTER to yours.
4. A TENTATIVE outline that should follow this general pattern - you can make changes as you do research and think it through:
a. General background (big-picture) on the topic
b. Your thesis (the focused argument you will make on some smaller part of the larger topic)
c. Points you will try to make - paragraph by paragraph
d. Best counter-argument made to your argument and why you find it unconvincing
e. Restatement of your argument and conclusion
PLEASE get these things done because after next class, the research paper will fall into the background a little. There will be other assignments and things to study. You will need to continue to work on this ALONG WITH all this other stuff. The draft of the research paper will be due OCTOBER 27th. You can ask me questions anytime about the work you are doing, about problems you may be having, but the deadline must be kept.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Homework for 9/20
1. Type out an Argumentative Research paper TOPIC you will commit to doing. If you cleared it in class - Joe Lombardi, Amanda, Dana, Michal, Joe Sacchitello, Ramon and Arendt - then just type it out and turn it in. If you DIDN'T clear it, please email me first and let me do a little back and forth so you are clear on what you're doing.
2. Start looking around for some sources. You will need 4 - 5 and one of those MUST be a source that argues AGAINST your point of view.
Thursday we will meet in the Library - the room to the left as you walk in. I think it's 105. There will be a presentation of how to use the data resources of the library for your paper. And you will be able to get started looking for sources if there is time.
2. Start looking around for some sources. You will need 4 - 5 and one of those MUST be a source that argues AGAINST your point of view.
Thursday we will meet in the Library - the room to the left as you walk in. I think it's 105. There will be a presentation of how to use the data resources of the library for your paper. And you will be able to get started looking for sources if there is time.
Homework for 9/15
• Read “Agroterror” (309) and “Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha” (312)
• Think about how anything you read could be used by you in your argumentative paper.
• If you haven’t cleared your topic idea with me and the class, this has to be done in Class 7.
• If you want to improve the grade you got on Paper #1, you may revise and resubmit, but this needs to be turned in by Tuesday, Sept. 20.
• Think about how anything you read could be used by you in your argumentative paper.
• If you haven’t cleared your topic idea with me and the class, this has to be done in Class 7.
• If you want to improve the grade you got on Paper #1, you may revise and resubmit, but this needs to be turned in by Tuesday, Sept. 20.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Homework for 9/13
Homework:
1) Read the following position essays and be prepared to answer some questions in class on them Thursday:
a. “Nuclear Not the Answer” (270-272) and
b. “Fatherless America” (279-283)
2) You might also begin going over what I attempted to present in a very concise form in class (chapter 16 of your text, pgs.249-264. Be aware these pages are a resource for you as you work on your Argumentative Paper.
3) Begin thinking about the topic you will commit to – you must tell me and let us review it a little in class before committing to it. All topics must be decided by 9/22.
1) Read the following position essays and be prepared to answer some questions in class on them Thursday:
a. “Nuclear Not the Answer” (270-272) and
b. “Fatherless America” (279-283)
2) You might also begin going over what I attempted to present in a very concise form in class (chapter 16 of your text, pgs.249-264. Be aware these pages are a resource for you as you work on your Argumentative Paper.
3) Begin thinking about the topic you will commit to – you must tell me and let us review it a little in class before committing to it. All topics must be decided by 9/22.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Homework for 9/6
1. Settle on a person you intend to write your "People Matter" paper on, and if this is a person you would be able to interview, prepare interview questions and then do the interview, recording the interview or taking notes that you let the person review so that you can be sure you got the answers given. I think a few people said they wanted to write about someone they knew who had died. In that case, you will need to interview someone who knew them. Whoever you interview, focus your questions on the things that make that person admirable to you.
2. If you are interviewing someone, you will also need one other secondary source for the paper. So try to locate a useful source - something about the person or the era the person lived in or some event that the person went through.
3. If you choose someone is is not close to you - someone historical or in the news today, you should have two sources. If you can find an interview or some primary source, fine, but both can be secondary sources.
The "People Matter" paper is due on Tuesday, September 13th and it must be a) submitted to Turnitin, so we can see if there are any problems anyone has; and b) submitted to me (hard copy) in class. We will likely read some and talk about them a bit.Requirements for the paper in terms of pages, fonts, etc can be found in the Archived English 101/Lape Writing Assignments Document.
4. Continued going over chapters 27 through 29, taking some notes and concentrating on those things you may not have learned before. We will go over these chapters, but we'll do it pretty quickly, so you should spend some personal time trying to go over them.
2. If you are interviewing someone, you will also need one other secondary source for the paper. So try to locate a useful source - something about the person or the era the person lived in or some event that the person went through.
3. If you choose someone is is not close to you - someone historical or in the news today, you should have two sources. If you can find an interview or some primary source, fine, but both can be secondary sources.
The "People Matter" paper is due on Tuesday, September 13th and it must be a) submitted to Turnitin, so we can see if there are any problems anyone has; and b) submitted to me (hard copy) in class. We will likely read some and talk about them a bit.Requirements for the paper in terms of pages, fonts, etc can be found in the Archived English 101/Lape Writing Assignments Document.
4. Continued going over chapters 27 through 29, taking some notes and concentrating on those things you may not have learned before. We will go over these chapters, but we'll do it pretty quickly, so you should spend some personal time trying to go over them.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
8/30 Homework
1. Check to see that you can get online access to the course as listed on Turnitin. Go to the following site to create a student account and login:https://turnitin.com/login_page.asp - let me know if you have trouble with it.
2. Check to see that you can access my blog: http://composition-lape.blogspot.com/ - there you will find the Class Description (in Archives) you signed today. Please note that I amended it a little by adding the little mini-research paper that I will tell you about next time. Or you can read about it and the other papers that you will be submitting to the Turnitin site throughout the term. They are also described and archived at the blog.
3. I will email you all either individually or through the Farmingdale Oasis site where you are all listed as my class. Please respond to the email just so I know you can get emails and so I know you were able to access Turnitin and the LapeComposition Blog.
4. Then - with the new textbook that you picked up (also Homework) - go to pages 30-34 and get ready for the writing you will do on Thursday. Please be ON TIME. The title of the essay will be “The Essence of Me.” This essay will not be graded; it is what we call a “diagnostic” essay that I will read to get to know you a little, and not only about who you are as a person but how you write.
Think about what the “rhetorical situation” is in my asking you to write about yourself and do some free-thinking and scribbling about those aspects of you – your look, your personality, your life experience, background, strengths, weaknesses, interests, etc. that would be necessary to get across who you really are to someone who has never known you – me.
2. Check to see that you can access my blog: http://composition-lape.blogspot.com/ - there you will find the Class Description (in Archives) you signed today. Please note that I amended it a little by adding the little mini-research paper that I will tell you about next time. Or you can read about it and the other papers that you will be submitting to the Turnitin site throughout the term. They are also described and archived at the blog.
3. I will email you all either individually or through the Farmingdale Oasis site where you are all listed as my class. Please respond to the email just so I know you can get emails and so I know you were able to access Turnitin and the LapeComposition Blog.
4. Then - with the new textbook that you picked up (also Homework) - go to pages 30-34 and get ready for the writing you will do on Thursday. Please be ON TIME. The title of the essay will be “The Essence of Me.” This essay will not be graded; it is what we call a “diagnostic” essay that I will read to get to know you a little, and not only about who you are as a person but how you write.
Think about what the “rhetorical situation” is in my asking you to write about yourself and do some free-thinking and scribbling about those aspects of you – your look, your personality, your life experience, background, strengths, weaknesses, interests, etc. that would be necessary to get across who you really are to someone who has never known you – me.
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