Harvard Extension School Expo E-25; Section 8 (7:45PM-9:45PM)

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Harvard Extension SchoolExpo E-25 Section 8
(745PM-945PM)

• Instructor Julie Anne McNary
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• We will begin at 745PM.

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Expository Writing E25 Introduction to Academic
Writing and Critical ReadingAnalyzing the Short
Story

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Overview

• FINAL Draft due Wednesday night at Midnight, or
  Friday at Midnight, your choice Last issues.
• Essay 2 Comparison and Contrast Essay
• Introduction to the Assignment
• In-class writing assignment clustering
• Assignment of Exercises 2.1 and 2.2 (due Friday
  night, October 30) 2.1 Brainstorming and 2.2
  Outline
• Early Release so you can go work yourselves to
  the boneor whatever.

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Our Book and Chapters

• ISBN 0-321-47583-6
• Chapters weve read so far
• 1 Reading a Story
• 2. Point of View
• 3. Character
• 4. Setting
• 5. Tone and Style
• 6. Theme
• 13. Writing about A Story
• 7. Symbol
• 8. Evaluating a Story

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Questions about your Final Draft

• Technical Issues
• Proof-reading on two levels
• YOUR OWN INVESTMENT
• MLA documentation
• http//www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s1.html

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The Stories for Essay 2

• A P
• Teenage Wasteland
• How to Talk to a Hunter
• Sonnys Blues
• Roman Fever
• The Girl on the Plane
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
• Until Gwen (new)
• Hills like White Elephants
• The Lottery
• The Open Boat

• Miss Brill
• Cathedral
• Rich Brother
• The Storm
• To Build A Fire
• The Greasy Lake
• A Pair of Tickets
• Lost in the Funhouse
• The Things They Carried
• Winter Dreams
• Everything That Rises Must Converge (new)
• Bigfoot Stole My Wife

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In Class Exercise 2.01

• Twenty-five minutes
• First please consider one of the topic areas of
  study we have concentrated on in our text book
  plot, character, setting, theme, point of view,
  etc.
• Then, choose two stories that you feel are
  uniquely compelling examples of an authors use
  of the above.
• Examples
• Fear in The Things They Carried and Greasy Lake
  or Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
• Setting in Roman Fever and The Storm
• Body Language in Teenage Wasteland and AP
• The use of the second person point of view in How
  to Talk to a Hunter and Until Gwen
• Music in Sonnys Blues and Where are You Going,
  Where Have You Been?
• Prepare a list of three compelling examples of
  your topic from Story 1 and three from Story 2.
• Answer the following questions How do these
  examples relate to one another? How are they
  similar? how are they different? Does one
  authors use of setting shed light on anothers?
  And if so how?

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Overview of Essay 2

• Websharing of Harvards Comparison and Contrast
  paper

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Exercise 2.1 Brainstorming, 10/30

• Expand on your in-class exercise, or choose
  another one
• Include a list of several examples to compare and
  contrast COLLECT YOUR DATA FIRST ANALYZE THAT
  DATA, AND THEN CONSIDER YOUR ARGUMENT.
• Consider if your examples are leading you toward
  a traditional comparison and contrast paper, or a
  keyhole (dominant lens) paper
• Construct a loose introductory paragraph and
  thesis statement.

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Exercise 2.2 Outline, 10/30

• In the manner in which you constructed Exercise
  1.3, write a detailed outline of your Essay 2
• Construct an introductory paragraph(s) in which
  you outline the source stories, and state your
  thesis
• Outline each body paragraph in the manner we have
  laboriously discussed topic sentence that states
  an analytical claim, evidence from the text,
  analysis thereof, transition to the next
  paragraph
• YOU MAY FOLLOW text by text format, or point by
  point see How to Write a Comparative Analysis
  document on our website.
• Construct a loose conclusion in which you open
  new vistas of analysis