Due Date: PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT: The purpose of this assignment is to assess your understanding of the following: Skills: An essay is a valuable tool for academic writing.The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice skills that are essential to your success in this course and in your professional life beyond school. This assignment is relevant because it will help you develop the skills needed to succeed in English 101 & 102 courses. By mastering the concept, you will be able to write across the curriculum and successfully complete collegiate writing assignments. You will practice the following skills: eliminate wordiness in writing recognize verbs in the active and passive voice examine and correct faulty subordination and sentence combining Knowledge: This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline: 1. deadwood 2. passive and active verbs 3. faulty subordination DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT: View the following resources before starting this assignment: eliminating wordinessLinks to an external site. sentence combining pt. 1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. sentence combining pt.2 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Complete the exercise at the bottom of page 509. Complete the exercise on page 510-511 (choose only 3 sentences). Complete the exercise on page 512 (1-5). Complete the exercise on page 516 (1-5) CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS Place your name, date, title of course (ENG 101 or ENG 102), and my name in the top left corner of the first page. Complete assignments and submit to Canvas.
Write a 500 word (2 pages) essay in MLA format answering the following question in a thesis statement: How does the story, “The Machine Stops” echo the sentiments of Plato in “The Allegory of the Cave”? Be sure to include quotes from the stories with in-text MLA formatted citations. Essay due by submitting it to Turn-it-In by 12/02.
For your second formal essay, choose two public apologies that we reviewed in class, or one that you found for homework, and answer the following question: In her article, Tannen writes: “Why are we so reluctant to just say, ‘I'm sorry’--and say it like we mean it? Because admitting fault weakens our position.” Analyze two public apologies and address how these apologies either do or don’t admit fault by weakening their position. Consider: Are these public apologies effective apologies? Are they non-apologies or “sorry-not-sorry” apologies? And do they truly say “I’m sorry” or are they reluctant to?
Watch the Gran Torino movie You will submit a 3-5 page essay that answers and responds to the following questions: Analyze Walt’s process of adapting to cultural diversity (Ch. 4). Identify the difference between Walt’s culture and the Hmong people. Looking closely at Walt’s communications style, how would you describe his verbal communication skills versus of Thao and Sue? What are the meanings and purposes Walt attaches to talk? How does Walt view friendship different than Thao and Sue? What strategies are different between them in initiating and maintaining friendships?
Read: "Your Thesis Statement" in the Module One Resourcesfolder. For more detailed information, read "Draft and Revise a Thesis Statement" on pages 14-19 in Rules for Writers, 8th edition. Directions: Choose one of the topics and approaches provided for you. Write a working thesis statement for the topic and approach you chose. Your thesis statement must be an analysis, not just a statement of fact about the novel. Your professor must approve your thesis statement. If you did not receive at least a 70, you need to revise. You are permitted three attempts in this assignment, and the highest grade will be recorded. Click on A1.1 Step 1: Thesis Statement for Literary Essay to begin. Your Thesis Statement for the Novel Disgrace Like any paper you have ever written for a first-year composition course, you must have a specific, detailed thesis statement that reveals your perspective. When writing about literature, your perspective must be one which is not overtly obvious. In this folder you will find a page titled "Choose One Topic and Approach." You will find several topics and approaches to choose from, but you will write your own thesis statement. When deciding on your thesis, pay attention to what to do/not to do here: You would not want to write a thesis like this: J. M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace takes place in post-apartheid South Africa. That doesn't say anything. Basically, it only states a fact about the story. It does not go beyond the obvious. Also what is not acceptable is the following: Disgrace, a novel by J. M. Coetzee, traces a white middle-class professor as he faces disgrace for having sex with a student. That doesn't say much either. It is merely a one-sentence summary of the novel's plot. A better thesis would be something like this: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace suggests that the white professor's disgrace reflects the disgrace and shame of whites in post-apartheid South Africa. That is debatable, maybe even controversial. Some scholars might disagree with the above statement. If your thesis statement is not completely debatable, it should at least make a statement that is not obvious, seeing the work in a different way through thought and discovery. For more details on writing a good thesis statement, check your handbook Rules for Writers and read "Draft and revise a working thesis statement" pages 14-19.
