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 Southwestern College Spring 2008—34323: ENGLISH 116 (68) Critical Thinking and Composition 14 January 2008 - 19 May 2008 (final) instructor: Leon Lanzbom email: lanzbom@gmail.com class time: M,W: 4:30-5:45 PM  class room: RM435And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath _______________________________________________________________________________________ COURSE MATERIALS/TEXTS: Lunceford, Andrea A, and John J, Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters. everything’s an argument: with readings. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2007. Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual. 4th ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. Spiegelman, Art. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale. My Father Bleeds History. New York: Pantheon, 1986. Handouts, distributed by me during the semester Notebooks, three-ring preferred College level dictionary (recommended)
Week Ten: 3.17-3.22 3.17-23 Spring Break: a week of west and wewaxation  ______________________________ Week Eleven: 3.24-3.28  Mon. Maus 1-71: You must bring be ready to discuss any section that you believe is important.Wed. Maus 72-129 _____________________________ Week Twelvc: 3.31-4.4 Mon. Maus 129 Wed: rough draft of essay 3 _______________________________ Week Thirteen: 4.7-4.11 M Ch 10 though 307; final draft for essay 3
Final Essay: due one week before finals Monday, 5.
Week Sixteen: 4.28-5.2 M/W: EA ch 14 through 437; “Once More to the Lake”; “The Storm.” Rough drafts final essay Week Seventeen: 5.5-5.9 M/W final essay work, rough drafts Week Eighteen: 5.12-5.16 M final essay hand in. Review for final W. Complete final review _______________________________________ Week 19: Final Exam 5.19
Glaspell, Susan. "A Jury of Her Peers." Literature and Its _____________________________________________Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford, 2001. 286-302. Works cited from an anthology (from Hacker)  Give the elements in this order:
If you wish, you may cross-reference two or more works from the same anthology. Provide an entry for the anthology. Then in separate entries list the author and title of each selection, followed by the last name of the editor of the anthology and the page numbers on which the selection appears. Desai, Anita. "Scholar and Gypsy." Craig 251-73. Malouf, David. "The Kyogle Line." Craig 390-96. Alphabetize the entry for the anthology under the name of its editor (Craig); alphabetize the entries for the selections under the names of the authors (Desai, Malouf). Need research help? Click here for Mesa College Library Resources. Click here for the Mesa College Library Catalogue. Click here for article and reference databases Quotations  Use a colon when a quote is introduced by an independent clause (a sentence). Judith Ortiz Cofer tells us: “It was as if the heart of the city map were being gradually colored in brown—café- con-leche brown. Our color" (156). A comma follows an introduction that offers the quote: On writing, Amy tan says, “I use them all---all the Englishes I grew up with” (38). Use no punctuation with the word “that.” Comparing our minds to the ocean, Steven King says that “I think that our minds are the same nutrient bath all the way down to the bottom, and different things live at different levels" (20). Quotes should be placed at different parts of your sentences. This keeps adds variety to your writing. Beginning “I preferred, much preferred, my version,” Maya Angelou writes in “The Angel of the candy counter" (145). Middle Bell hooks tells the reader that “As I wrote, I felt that I was not concerned with accuracy of detail as I was with evoking in writing a state of mind, the spirit of a particular moment” (164)—a good lesson for all writers of autobiography. End In “Judgment of the Birds,” Loren Eiseley explains: “It is commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart form his fellows and live for a time in the wilderness" (105). Long Quotations Long quotes are handled a bit differently than short quotes. We place quotations longer than four typed lines in a free-standing block of typewritten lines. Remember to keep your entire essay double spaced. We omit quotation marks; this feels unnatural, but it is part of MLA style. Start the quotation on a new line, indenting one inch from the left margin. Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark. When quoting verse, maintain original line breaks. Click here for OWL Online Writing Lab's great example of a long quotation. Scroll down a bit, and you'll find it. To Underline or Quote? Just about anything you can hold in your hands should be italicized (or underlined in academic essays): books, movies, artworks, plays, long poems, pamphlets, CD's, symphanies, long musical pieces, famous speeches. What goes inside the things you can hold takes quotations. For example, the poem or short story that goes into the anthology takes quotation marks. The song that goes into the cd. This doesn't work for everything, but for titles, it works like a charm. If you're not sure, check out one of the MLA links in the writing section of this website. |
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Read “The Offbeat Allure of Cult Films” by Sayoh Mansaray (242) and “Pink Think” by Lynn Peril (246). Using the topic, “Graphic Novels Are Serious Literature,” and “The Guide to Writing an Argument of Definition” on pages 234 to 239 craft a 3 page essay using examples from our book 
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