Assignments

Congratulations on finishing the semester!

Please come to class prepared to take our in-class final exam, which will be administered on May 24.  All you will need is a writing utensil and, if you’d like, a dictionary for your reference.

Due May 17:

  • Complete your final portfolio (due May 17)
    • Feel free to visit me during my office hour (2:45 – 3:45 pm on Wednesday in Namm 529) or go to the Atrium Learning Center to seek extra support as you complete your revisions.

Due May 10:

  • Begin working on your final portfolio (due May 17)
  • Bring all relevant work with you to class

Due May 3 (remember there is no school April 22-30 on account of spring recess):

  • Complete your research paper
  • Please bring your textbook with you to class on the 3rd

Due April 19:

  • Continue researching/writing
  • Bring all relevant work with you to class
  • Please remember that we will meet for class in front of the library, on the 4th floor of the Namm building!

Due April 12:

  • Think through your research paper (due May 3)
  • Come to class with no more than 3 preliminary topics/research questions (while it’s great to start with a list of a dozen topics, you’ll want to widdle down your list prior to class)
  • You’re welcome to also prepare a working bibliography
  • This work can be handwritten

Note!  You may only get started writing after your topic has been approved by me (either during class or via OpenLab)

Due April 5:

  • Watch “Do What You Love” speech (see page 461 for details)
  • Read pages 463-465 (“Do What You Love #@&** That!”)
  • Read pages 466-467 (“Dear Grads: Don’t Do What You Love”)
  • Read pages 468-472 (“In the Name of Love”)
  • Complete response paper 7

Due March 29:

  • Read pages 496-498 (“A Psychology of a Rumor”)
  • Read pages 512-516 (“How to Fight a Rumor”)
  • Read pages 499-503 (“’Paul is Dead!’ (Said Fred)”)
  • Complete response paper 6:
    • Here’s a quick overview of response paper 6:
      • Read the 3 pieces noted above
      • Research “reputation defenders”
      • Create a working bibliography reflecting 3 sources that taught you about reputation defenders.  See pages 223-227 for more on working bibliographies.
      • Brainstorm 3-5 academic topics related to rumors and reputation defenders — what would you have to learn more about in order to write a 20 page paper on rumors and reputation defenders?

Due March 22:

  • Revise response paper 4: you’ll need to turn in both the original and revised copies of your work.  Per your feedback, the new page requirements for the paper are 1.5 – 3 pages.
    • Please check out my March 9 post on our updated grading policy, as it will effect how your response paper will be graded.  In essence, ten points (which is the loss of a letter grade) will be deducted if you are more than five minutes late to class on the day an assignment is due.   
  • Read Haruki Murakami’s “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” (handout)
  • Read Gabriel GarcĂ­a Márquez’s “Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane” (handout)
  • Note!  While our syllabus indicates that a fifth response paper is due on March 22, we are going to forgo this assignment so that folks can focus on strengthening their argument syntheses.

Due March 15:

Due March 8:

  • Read pages 96-129 in our textbook (re: explanatory synthesis)
  • Read “A Chilean Writer’s Fictions Might Include His Own Colorful Past” and “Stray Questions for: Roberto Bolaño?!” (handouts)
  • Read Roberto Bolaño’s “Beach” (handout)
  • Complete response paper 3
    • Note!  Thanks to a great question raised in class, I modified the prompt of response paper 3 for clarity.  The attachment above reflects said changes – for ease of reference I’ve also copied the modification below:
      • Your synthesis must be at least 1 page but no more than 2 pages.  In your response you should cite “Beach” as well as one of the New York Times pieces provided.  It is likely that you will have to do research beyond the pieces provided in an effort to identify the effects heroin has on users’ bodies and minds.  In your response you should cite “Beach” as well as at least one other source (your own research, one/or/both of the New York Times pieces provided, etc.).  You will need to submit a Works Cited page along with your response paper.

Due Tuesday, March 1:

  • Read our textbook, pages 51-77 (about critical reading and critique)
  • Read Wallace Shawn’s essay, “An ‘American’ Publishes a Magazine”
  • Summarize Shawn’s essay and post your summary on OpenLab
    • Please review the “How to Create a Post” blog entry, dated Feb 23, for more information on how to fulfill this component of our assignment.
  • Complete response paper 2

Due Tuesday, February 23:

  • Read our textbook, pages 3-25 (you’ll be reading about summary)
  • Read Charles Horton Cooley’s “Society is in the Mind” (a handout distributed in class)
  • Complete response paper 1
    • Note!  Throughout the semester we will complete “response papers” in which you respond to a prompt.  The prompts will be distributed in class and linked here on OpenLab.
    • Response paper 1 asks you to summarize one key relationship Cooley explores in “Society is in the Mind” — please do not choose the relationship Cooley draws between childhood imaginary friends and the adult imagination, as we discussed it briefly during class.  

Due Tuesday, February 16:

  • Buy our textbook (you’ll need it to complete the unit 1 homework assignment)
  • Sign up for OpenLab (if you’re reading this, you already have!)
  • Review the “Proofreader’s Marks” handout
  • Read the Lakeland Library “MLA In-Text Citations” handout
  • Read the University of Minnesota “MLA Documentation Style: Works Cited Page” handout
  • Read the annotation reference handout
  • Complete the quote integration exercise handout
  • Complete unit 1 homework
    • Note!  While you’ll want to label your unit 1 homework with a heading (featuring your name, ENG1121 / E115, the name of the assignment, and the due date), you do not need to title your work.  
    • As indicated on our syllabus, all work should be typed, printed, and brought to class unless otherwise noted.
    • For those looking for an example of what annotation can look like, I stumbled upon this blog post that may be of reference.

Copies of all of the above-mentioned documents can be found on our “Classwork and Texts Distributed” page.

 

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *