Course Recap for Friday, November 13, 2015

Works Cited

Your Works Cited Page should be the last page of your paper. Everyone should include one because everyone should be quoting from the piece they analyzed. See below for examples on how to cite those types of sources.

Movie

Title. Dir (for director). First Name Last Name. Perf (for major performers). First Name Last Name. Studio,

Year. Type of Media.

Carrie. Dir. Brian De Palma. Perf. Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie. United Artists, 1976. DVD.

Song

Artist Last Name, First Name. "Song Title." Album the song is on. Label it was released. Year. Type of

Media.

The Weeknd. "I Can't Feel My Face." Beauty Behind the Madness. Republic Records and XO, 2015. MP3.

Short Story

Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Story." Original Publication. City Of Publication: Publisher, Year of

Publication. Type of Media.

Baldwin, James. "Sonny's Blues." Going to Meet the Man. New York City: Dial Press, 1965.

PDF file.

Nordan, Lewis. "The All-Girl Football Team." The All-Girl Football Team. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State

University Press, 1986. PDF file.

Evans, Danielle. "Virgins." Before You Suffocate Your Fool Self. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2011.

PDF file.

Website

Author Last Name, First Name (if any). "Article Title." Website Article is Published. Organization that owns

website (if any), Date Published. Type of Media. Date You Accessed it.

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chilli." Ehow. Demand Media, 06 July 2015. Web. 13 Nov.

2015

Homework

• Analysis Paper Final Drafts Due Saturday, Nov 14 by noon via Google Docs.
• Logical Fallacy Assignment (Editorial) Due Monday, Nov 16 by midnight via Google Docs.
• Read "How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words" by Paul Roberts (pg 93 Readings for Writers) and "Working at McDonald's" by Amitai Etzioni (pg 134 Readings for Writers) for Friday, Nov. 20.
• Get a Head Start on the Annotated Bibliography Due Monday Nov. 23 by gathering a few sources about your community concern. (Optional but a Really Good Idea).

 

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Course Recap for Friday, November 6, 2015

Aristotelian Appeals: Ethos, pathos, and logos
Ethos, pathos, and logos are the 3 modes of persuasion according to Aristotle. Ethos appeals to the credibility of the arguers, logos appeals to the logic, and pathos appeals to the emotion. The 3 work in tandem to create strong persuasive arguments. It is important for you to take each one into account. You don't want to argue for something based on your emotions that isn't logically sound, but you also don't want to argue for something that is logically sound that might anger or offend someone. And it won't matter how logical and agreeable your argument is if your audience doesn't trust you or find you credible. In other words, you have to remember that your audience is human and humans have a tendency to think both with their heads and their hearts. When we performed the exercise today, we determined which people were absolutely needed because of their skills and the use we could put those skills to. Here we used both ethos and logos. We need food, and James is a farmer, so James can stay. Some of us kept people around because of the emotional support that person would provide.  One group kept the old psychologist because we assumed she could be a soothing, motherly presence for the group.  Another group kept both children because they couldn't imagine killing off children and because the children could eventually become helpful. That is pathos with a little bit of logos thrown in since we can suppose that this people might be less willing to help us if we killed their children. You want to make sure that any formal (and sometimes informal) argument you present appeals to all 3 modes of persuasion because they are all valid.

Logical Fallacies

Logical fallacies are errors in logic. We think we're presenting logical reasoning for our claims but somewhere in our claim we are making faulty assumptions that take away from our argument. There are different kinds of logical fallacies that people make in presenting their positions.  It is a good idea to be familiar with them so you can point them out in a discussion, and so you can avoid using them yourself in an argument. Logical fallacies hide the truth, so pointing them out is very useful. Check out the List of Logical Fallacies for some common ones. We will be working the next week at making sure we know these types of fallacies when we see them.

Homework

• Submit your Analysis Papers first drafts via ELI and Google Docs and Review your classmates papers (you'll be reading everybody's papers) Reviews Due Monday Nov. 9
• Final Draft of Analysis Papers Due Friday Nov. 13
• Research a Conspiracy Theory.  Come to class with a brief write up of the claims of that theory and the evidence they use to support those claims.  This can be handwritten bullet points. Due In-Class Friday, Nov. 13
• Hunting for Logical Fallacies: Read a series of editorials from your favorite publication or blog (New York Times, Fox News, NPR), looking for one or more of the logical fallacies we discussed in class.  Follow the instructions in the Logical Fallacy Assignment Sheet.  And if you need a refresher on the definitions of the fallacies, check out the List of Logical Fallacies (both underneath Class Documents). Due Monday, Nov. 16

Course Recap for Friday, October 30, 2015

Homework

• Outline analyzing one of the 3 short stories (Virgins, All-Girl Football Team or Sonny's Blues) Due Monday November 2
• Between your three outlines (your movie, song, and short story) choose 2 of them to develop into a full paper and submit your first drafts Friday November 6

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Course Recap for Friday, October 23, 2015

Class was cancelled.  Here's your homework for the week.

Homework

• The outlines that were due today.  If you haven't typed them, I need you to do so.  Remember the outline is just that.  An outline for the paper.  You don't have to write the full paper.  I received a full paper which is fine but it was not required for this part of the assignment.  The easy way to do this is to click on the Analysis Outline link on the blog.  Go to File and then select Make a Copy.  This will allow you to go ahead and edit the document right in Google Docs and then you just have to share it with me when you're done.  The Sample Analysis Outline that I gave out last Friday is also on the blog if you want an idea of what I'm looking for.  Have this to me by Monday.  If you do so, I will give you feedback on your outline to let you know if you're on the right track.  I will not accept any outlines I don't receive by Monday.  This assignment was technically due today so all you should have to do is type it up.  You were basically given an extension so I won't accept any that are late.
•  If you haven't read the short stories, please do so and come to class Friday with a one sentence thesis statement written for each story. From each story, what is a message you received from it.  Again check the sample outline for an example of a thesis statement.  You'll pick a major theme from the piece, for instance, the theme of addiction is prevalent in Sonny's Blues and then tell me what you think the piece is saying about addiction.  We will look at the statements you come up with and narrow down which ones are good and which ones are not and talk about the ways you could go about defending those statements.  It's an easy assignment considering the reading should already be done.  One sentence thesis statement for each story. 

Course Recap for Friday, October 16, 2015

Analyzing a Piece of Art
In class, you answered several questions about aspects of your movie such as the characters, the setting, the conflict/resolution, the key scenes, etc.  You were also give background questions to answer about your movie such as who's the director, how does your piece fit into the specific genre of movie you're looking at, etc.  All of these questions were asked to help you to decide on a potential thesis statement for your analysis paper.  Your thesis for your analysis is a message that you feel the film sends through it's characters, plot points, visuals, etc. 

Once you determine what that message is you will have to gather evidence from the piece to support it.  You will be completing an outline for a movie and song of your choice, where you identify a potential thesis statement and then provide me with the evidence you would use to defend that thesis.

Some of the same questions you ask yourself when analyzing a movie, apply to the song.  How would you characterize the speaker?  What is the story of the song?  What is the conflict?  How does the music influence the song lyrics?  What do you know about the performer that could influence how you feel about the song? etc.  Remember that there is no right or wrong interpretation.  Your interpretation of the message is right as long as you have sufficient evidence to back it up.  Your goal is to show me that you know how to present a strong argument.


Homework (all due Next Friday Oct 23)

• Outline for your analysis of a song AND movie of your choice
• Read Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin 
• Read The All-Girl Football Team by Lewis Nordan 
• Read Virgins by Danielle Evans

Course Recap for Friday, October 9, 2015

Reflection Paper

When you turn in the final drafts of your narratives, they should be accompanied by a 500 word Reflection paper, reflecting on your writing process. In this paper you are going to answer the following questions.

1. What significant changes did you make between your first draft and your final and why? Be sure to include any classmate or instructor feedback you received or anything you may have learned from reading your classmates drafts (think back to the questions you answered on peer review day).

2. Compare and contrast writing the fictional narrative and the personal narrative? Which was easier for you? How did you approach each? Which of the two did you like the most?

3. What are you most proud of in each of your narratives (include at least one quoted passage)? If you still had time (or was forced to revise this paper yet again), what would you change? What could you do better? You must answer both parts of this question.

4. What did you take away from this project? What did you learn?

Final Drafts and Reflection Paper Due Monday by midnight via Google Docs (my gmail is micealaya.moses@gmail.com)

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Course Recap for Friday, October 2, 2015

Homework

• Narrative #2 (Due Monday, October 5 via ELI and Google Docs)
• Review of Narrative #2 (Due Friday, October 9 via ELI)

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