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English 102 Spring 2010: 2010-04-11
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English 102 Spring 2010. Thursday, April 15, 2010. Introductions in the Humanities. When you begin a paper, it’s important not only to introduce the topic that you’re writing about, but also the way you’ll be writing about it. Your papers in the humanities will almost always involve close readings of texts (whether they are stories, movies, paintings, etc.), so what better way than to start your paper immediate with a close reading of the text? This has numerous advantages:. Http:/ muse.jhu.edu/j...Http:...
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English 102 Spring 2010: 2010-02-14
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English 102 Spring 2010. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Draft Workshop 1 for February 16. In your wave, rewrite your introduction using the following instructions:. 1 Begin with an interesting fact about your topic that your audience won’t already know. State this fact in a simple sentence (it should probably follow this pattern: subject / verb / indirect object / direct object) built around a simple (i.e. one word), active verb (i.e. no forms of “to be”). UNC Writing Center Handout on Introductions.
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English 102 Spring 2010: Refresher: The Paramedic Method
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English 102 Spring 2010. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Refresher: The Paramedic Method. 1 Circle the prepositions (of, in, about, for, onto, into). 2 Draw a box around the "is" verb forms. 3 Ask, "Where's the action? 4 Change the "action" into a simple verb. 5 Move the doer into the subject (Who's kicking whom? 6 Eliminate any unnecessary slow wind-ups. 7 Eliminate any redundancies. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Unit 1 Assignment Sequence. Unit 2 Assignment Sequence. Unit 3 Assignment Sequence.
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English 102 Spring 2010: 2010-04-04
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English 102 Spring 2010. Thursday, April 8, 2010. Go to the Art Full Text database ( http:/ eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/subject.php? Groups 1 and 2 find the article “Available in an Array of Colours” by Alistair O'Neill and groups 3 and 4 find “Upon the Scents of Paint” by Nicholas Chare. Next, start a wave for Feeder 3.1 and complete the following tasks:. 1 Summarize the article’s thesis statement. 3 Identify at least two claims that the author makes based on those pieces of evidence. April 18 - April 25.
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English 102 Spring 2010: 2010-02-07
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English 102 Spring 2010. Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Draft Workshop 2: February 9. 1 Glance at the Nature piece; has the author adequately paraphrased the author’s main thesis? Is the entire article devoted to proving this argument? If not, help the author to identify the article’s main thesis and paraphrase it. 2 What would be the thesis statement for an article arguing against the author’s point? In other words, what is the thesis’s antithesis? How do you know? How do you know? Do you like it? 4 Create ...
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English 102 Spring 2010: 2010-03-21
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English 102 Spring 2010. Thursday, March 25, 2010. Draft Workshop March 25. Listen to the current draft of your partner's podcast and answer the following questions in Wave:. 1 Compose a retrospective outline of the piece. List the main sections of the podcast, note the central claim of each section (i.e. something like a paragraph topic sentence) and note what evidence is used in each section to prove that claim. 2 Where is the author’s hypothesis? Is this soon enough? Could it be sooner? Should the aut...
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English 102 Spring 2010: Draft workshop: Summary and Analysis
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English 102 Spring 2010. Thursday, April 22, 2010. Draft workshop: Summary and Analysis. Read through your partner’s Unit 3 draft once quickly. Then go back to the beginning, and for each sentence (or clause), change the color of the sentence to red if it is primarily descriptive (i.e. it contains information that one would have trouble disagreeing with) or blue if it is primarily interpretive (i.e. it makes a claim that one might reasonably disagree with). Does one color dominate the other? The wealthy ...
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English 102 Spring 2010: Some other helpful art history databases
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English 102 Spring 2010. Thursday, April 15, 2010. Some other helpful art history databases. Try the JSTOR database at the bottom of this list:. Http:/ eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/list.php? Note: you may want to limit your search to articles by clicking the check box next to the word "article;" the other types of resources probably won't have the type of analytical arguments you'll need for Feeder 3.2). Also try the Arts and Humanities Citation Index here:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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English 102 Spring 2010: April 13: Draft Workshop #1
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English 102 Spring 2010. Tuesday, April 13, 2010. April 13: Draft Workshop #1. 1 Paraphrase the author’s thesis statement. How does this statement put the two articles in conversation with one another? What do the articles have in common (i.e. approach, evidence, critical framework, etc.)? What do the two authors have to say that is different from one another? What kinds of evidence does each author use to prove his or her point? What assumptions does s/he make about your audience’s interests? January 24...