class research guide <\/a>can help you find these sources.<\/p>\nIn writing your paper, one of these sources will be the text to which your paper responds. In other words, that\u2019s the article or book that is the \u201cThey Say\u201d to your \u201cI Say.\u201d The other sources you use will help you in establishing evidence for your argument.<\/p>\n
Schedule<\/h2>\n
Thursday, 29 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bring a preliminary bibliography to class, printed out
\nTuesday, 4 December\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bring first three pages of your essay to class, printed out
\nThursday, 6 December\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bring a complete rough draft to class, printed out
\nTuesday, 11 December\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Final draft due, emailed as a PDF before 1pm EST<\/p>\n
Preliminary Bibliography<\/h2>\n
Bring to class your \u201cWorks Cited\u201d page with the sources you think you will be using. (You can continue to change or add to these sources.) Each source should be correctly formatted in MLA style (see RWL<\/em> 150-160). Additionally, you should write 2-3 sentences summarizing the main argument of each source. This summary should follow the citation, starting on a separate line.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nAssignment Policies (from the syllabus)<\/h2>\n\n- Assignments are due at the beginning of class.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Papers will be turned in electronically<\/strong>. You should send each paper to me as a PDF attached to an email. You should name your file in the following format: Student number-Assignment name. For example, \u201c0879054-paper4.pdf\u201d. Papers are counted as turned in based on when my inbox<\/strong> says they arrived.<\/li>\n
- Late work will not be accepted<\/strong>, except at my discretion (with a significant grading penalty). Assignment deadlines are not flexible.<\/li>\n
- Papers must have titles. Additionally, they must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with 1 inch margins and must be in standard MLA style format. Furthermore, the pages should be numbered in the upper right corner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Grading<\/strong><\/h2>\nI will focus on seven discreet things while grading:<\/p>\n
\n- The They Say, I Say<\/em> move \u2013 Your essay should start by entering into conversation with either one of your sources. You should summarize their view (see TSIS <\/em>chapter 1 and 2) and then respond to their view using one of the three strategies (agree, disagree, or \u201cokay, but\u2026\u201d [see chapter 4]). Summarizing does not merely happen in the introduction. You might use a paragraph that follows the introduction to make sure you\u2019ve properly communicated your interlocutor\u2019s argument and set you up to respond. But you might also carefully integrate their arguments into the body of your paper through careful voice markers and signaling (see TSIS<\/em> chapter 5).<\/li>\n
- Incorporation of quotations \u2013 To make your argument persuasive, you need to use quotations effectively, especially quotations from Frankenstein<\/em>. Each quotation you use needs to be framed or put in a \u201cquotation sandwich\u201d (see TSIS<\/em> chapter 3). You should introduce the quotation, integrate it into your own language (see RWL<\/em> 42-49), and analyze or explicate the quotation. For the last of these, it is important for you to make it clear how the quotation relates to your argument.<\/li>\n
- Incorporation of research \u2013 Since this is a research paper, you need to make use of others\u2019 arguments to support your own (see RWL<\/em> chapter 130, 136-38). Along with citing this material correctly, you also need to make sure you\u2019re integrating these outside arguments into your own writing and choosing the best material you can find.<\/li>\n
- Planting a naysayer into your text \u2013 It is important to remember that you are not just in conversation with previous writers but with your reader as well. As such, you need to be aware that your reader will neither passively nor necessarily embrace every facet of your argument. Your paper should anticipate possible objections, represent them fairly, and answer them (see TSIS<\/em> chapter 6).<\/li>\n
- Connecting the parts \u2013 Each paragraph \/ sentence in a paper needs to be connected in some way to the one that came before it, and it must also be clear to your reader what sort of connection exists between them (see TSIS<\/em> chapter 8, RWL<\/em> 31). This will help your reader follow your train of thought and see how your new paragraph \/ sentence relates to the previous one (either agreeing, extending, moving in a new direction, etc.).<\/li>\n
- Saying why it matters \u2013 Arguments are more persuasive when you clearly articulate why your audience should care about them. Throughout your paper, but perhaps especially in your introduction and conclusion, you need to make it clear who<\/em> should care about your argument and why<\/em> they should care about it (see TSIS<\/em> chapter 7). What, in other words, are the larger stakes of your argument?<\/li>\n
- Prose and organizational effectiveness \u2013 It\u2019s a writing class and a writing assignment, so the quality of your writing will be at issue. This means on the level on individual sentences and on the level of essay organization. As I have stated in class, I am concerned with the organization of your argument more than the placement of every comma. Nevertheless, many comma errors or particular comma errors can make it difficult to understand your argument.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Writing Center<\/h2>\n
Finally, I strongly encourage you to get a draft ready to take to the Writing Center. And make sure you schedule an appointment ASAP as they tend to get very busy at the end of a semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Due Tuesday, 11 December 7 Pages For this assignment, you will write a seven-page research paper about Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein. Don\u2019t sweat the \u201cresearch\u201d part too much, however. After all, we\u2019ve spent a whole semester thinking about how to respond to the writing of other people. Following the patterns we\u2019ve been reading about in They<\/p>\n