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Response Paper 4: State Your Claim

Homework, Instructions

As discussed in class today, to prepare for response paper 4, during our Wednesday class we will engage in a debate relevant to the following two claims:

a) A fiction writer does not need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.

b) A fiction writer does need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.

If you know which claim you are going to prove in your paper, please comment to this post indicating as such by 5:15 PM on Tuesday, March 15 and I will do my best to assign you to a debate team accordingly.

Publication Information for Bolaño’s “Beach”

Homework, Instructions

To assist you in preparing a Works Cited page for response paper 3, below please find the publication information for “Beach” — you’ll need to format it according to MLA standards for your Works Cited:

  • author:  Roberto Bolaño
  • short story title:  “Beach”
  • published in: Between Parenthesis, 2011, New Directions Publishing (NYC)

 

How to Create a Post

Instructions

For folks who are experiencing difficulty creating a post, please check out this  OpenLab resource designed to walk users through the process of writing a post.

To create a post:

  1. Open OpenLab and navigate to our ENG1121 page.  Once you are on our Course Profile page, please click on “Visit Course Site” in order to gain access to our site’s resources and content.Screen Shot 2016-02-23 at 9.09.02 PM
  2. Select the “create” icon, located at the top perimeter of the OpenLab interface, which looks like a plus sign inside of a white circle.  Below the “create” icon is located to the left of the greeting, “Hi, Kara Hughes”:create icon
  3. Choose “Post”
  4. Title the post — for our Feb 24 homework, please label as follows — [your full name]:  Shawn summary
  5. Compose the body — for our Feb 24 homework, your post should contain a brief summary of “An ‘American’ Publishes a Magazine”
  6. Assign your post the appropriate category — for our Feb 24 homework, choose “HW due Feb 24″ from the “Category” box located in the right-most column of the screencategory

7. Use the blue “Publish” tab to finalize and publish your post before 4PM on Feb 24