LC 2015: Emotions 1101

Here is the PowerPoint we used today using a student sample to better integrate sources and use in-text citations:

The Fix: Integrating Sources and In-Text Citations

Here is more work for proofreading for in-text citations and language clarity.

THE FIX: In-Text Citations and Language Clarity

Here are materials that have been distributed in class for our Research Essay. Please remember, your brainstorming and planning sheets are due with your typed essay.

We will discuss the Works Cited page and in-text citations this week.

Research Essay Brainstorming Sheet

Research Essay Assignment Sheet

Research Essay Planning Sheet

This is the handout I distributed in class. This offers tips for formatting your first page and sequential pages in MLA format, the proper header/page number format, a preliminary introduction to citing sources, and references to the Purdue OWL website sources on these topics.

ENG 1101 MLA Format Handout 1

OVERVIEW:
In class we have recently read two essays that discuss ways to develop skills through education and through personal growth.

• Claudia Wallis and Sonja Steptoe’s “How to Bring Our Schools into the 21^st Century” discusses how educational institutions should be changed to address changes in technology and to address the personal skills necessary for young people to advance in today’s society.
• Howard Gardner’s “Five Minds for the Future” discusses five traits of mind that must be developed through personal effort and education to successfully thrive in our increasingly interconnected world.

ASSIGNMENT: 
Write a five paragraph argumentative essay that clearly argues for (your thesis) one change that could be implemented in an educational environment that would prepare students better for the future.   You may address students in a high school or college environment. Your essay must reference both Gardner’s and Wallis and Steptoe’s essays using paraphrase, summary, or paraphrase plus quotation.

Here are the  handouts:
Essay Assignment #3: ENG 1101 2015 Persuasive Essay
Planning Sheet #3 (due with your essay): ENG 1101 2015 Persuasive Essay Planning Sheet

What is strong about this summary? What could be better?

In the film 127 Hours, Aron Ralston, an overconfident, prideful adventurer that was traveling alone in the mountains in a desert, and after meeting some people and showing them around, he splits away from them to continue on his own journey. As Aron is making his way through, he gets trapped by a rock that fell on him and trapped his right arm between the rock and the wall of the small rift he was in. In the end, after Aron cuts off his own arm and became free from the rock, he said “thank you” for the reason that it was the moment in life that everyone has to through and see what they become on t he other side. For Aron it was a huge shift in priorities and personality. He lost his arrogance, overconfidence, and is now a more humble person, and always tells people where he is going, so the same situation does not occur.