final research paper & commonplace book instructions
Your final research paper and revised commonplace books will be due no later than 12 noon on Wednesday, May 3 . Late projects will not be accepted, though you are welcome to turn in your projects before Wednesday if you have finished them.
You have two options for turning in your work: you can send an e-mail copy of both documents as attachments to me at aferdina@purdue.edu, or you can drop off a printed copy of both in my office (HEAV 303E). I will be in my office on Wednesday from 9-11 a.m., so you can give them to me in person. If I am not in my office, just slide them under my door and send me an e-mail so I know to look for them. DO NOT drop off papers in the English Department Main Office.
A REMINDER ABOUT FINAL PAPER FORMATS: As stated in the course syllabus, your final projects should be formatted in MLA style, which includes page formatting, internal citations, and a works cited list. Please review the format here. Points will be taken off for failing to use correct MLA format.
--posted April 24, 2006
end-of-the-semester announcements
We WILL be having class on Thursday, April 20. On the 20th, you will:
- recieve your first drafts back from me with my comments,
- get information about turning in your final, revised commonplace books and your final project, and
- complete course evaluations for ENGL 304c.
Also, don't forget about the English 106 Showcase on April 18 in Stewart Center 310. Student displays will be shown all day, and instructor presentations are scheduled from 1-4 p.m. in the afternoon.
--posted April 13, 2006
conference times
Check your conference times here.
All conferences will be held in HEAV 303E.
a few notes about the next few weeks...
There are a few changes to the calendar for the next few weeks that you can find here or here (for .pdf copy). 1) We have two readings added that I originally planned for the course and included in the coursepack, but forgot to put on the syllabus. 2) The final reading response (due next Tuesday, April 4) is now optional for up to 15 extra credit points. The last commonplace books will be due on Tuesday as well.
Today in class we will schedule 15 minute sessions to meet with me for conferences about your projects sometime this week. If you are absent from class, please contact me to set up a time.
Here's more information on the annotated bibliography assignmnet, due Thursday, April 6.
--posted March 28, 2006
article analysis exercise
Get the article analysis exercise here.
--posted March 7, 2006
rhetoric and composition resources
Below you will find a listing of resources that will help you in generating ideas and finding materials for your final resarch project. Some are links to resources, and most of the major scholarly journals can be found in the library's electronic journal database. (If you find other resources that are not listed here, send them along and I'll be happy to post them.)
Databases
Scholarly Jounals
- College Composition and Communication (CCC) (formerly Freshman English News)
- College English
- Research in the Teaching of English
- English Journal
- Rhetoric Review
- Journal of Advanced Composition
Professional Organizations
--posted February 27, 2006
final project assignment guidelines
Get it here.
--posted February 27, 2006
style presentation
Here's the powerpoint presentation on style from Tuesday's class. Remember that the material here is designed to give you another option in writing sentences--it's not the end-all, be-all answer; just another way for you to make informed choices about your writing.
--posted February 23, 2006
calendar revisions
As I mentioned in class last week, I've made some adjustments to the course calendar.
Please mark your calendars with revised assignment due dates that follow:
- Thursday, February 23: Reading Response #2 Due, Commonplace Books Due
- Tuesday, March 21: Reading Response #3 Due, Commonplace Books Due
- Tuesday, March 28: Paper Proposal Due
The rest of the paper assignment due dates have not changed.
To view the complete calendar revisions, including reading assignment revisions from now until spring break, click here for a .pdf copy or click here for the calendar page.
--posted February 14, 2006
2/2/06 in-class activity: arrangement and genre
- Read one of the resources provided below.
- Using Kinneavy's model of the basic aims of composition, identify what you think the aim of the piece of writing. Use the communication triangle illustrated on p. 302 of Kinneavy's article (p. 96 of the coursepack) to support your answer.
- Re-read the text, looking carefully for form (as Winterowd outlines).
- Identify the pattern (or patterns) that you see emerging from in the text? (Think about how the author(s) used examples, specific words or phrases, etc.) How would you describe that form? Do you think it's effective? Why or why not?
- Do you see any traces of the invention strategies we talked about on Tuesday (Burke's Pentad or Young, Becker, and Pike's notion of particle/wave/field)? How do those contribute to the form of the writing?
Resource 1 | Resource 2 | Resource 3 | Resource 4
--posted February 1, 2006
helpful rhetoric resource
If you have questions about some of the rhetorical terms that are discussed in our readings (or in class), you may want to check out Silva Rhetoricae. It's a great site that has definitions, explanations, and examples of rhetorical principles.
--posted January 25, 2006
successful reading responses
Successful reading responses will
- address some issue raised by any article (or groups of articles) that we've read so far this semester (and directly names that article and its author). It can be something you agree with, something you disagree with, or something you still have questions about that you'd like to consider further
- explain why the issue(s) raised is interesting and/or important to you--either in terms of your understanding of the issue in relation to this class or in relation to your understanding of writing
- incorporate personal experience that explains your perspective on the issue and why it matters to you
--posted January 24, 2006
sample assignments
After class on Tuesday, several people asked me for further explanation of the reading responses and commonplace book assignments. We'll talk about these in more detail in class on Thursday, but in my experience, an example is sometimes the best explanation. So...here you go:
sample reading response | sample commonplace book entry
On Thursday we'll also be talking about how the writers we read for today are constructing their arguments, and to do so, we'll be using Toulmin's model of classical argument. For a cheat sheet on Toulmin, click here:
--posted January 11, 2006
welcome
Welcome to English 304C! I've attached a .pdf copy of the course policy statement and calendar here, although you can also find web versions by following the navigation links on the left of the page.
Any announcements, schedule changes, or assignment sheets will be provided here, so remember to check back periodically to make sure you are up-to-date.
--posted January 5, 2006