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
• Please check your Elluminate Audio Wizard
• We will begin at 745PM.

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

• Online WebConference Via Elluminate
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Overview

• MORE Housecleaning comments, drop box, text
  book, issues, most importantly, first
  conferences, and finally, The Writing Center
• Another call to arms
• Class Discussion and in-class writing exercise
  The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien
• The Aristotelian Appeals how can we use this
  material when analyzing short stories
• Your rhetoric exercises
• Moving from your 1.3 outline to Exercise 1.4,
  First Draft of Essay 1

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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
• Chapters assigned
• 7. Symbol
• 8. Evaluating a Story

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The Writing Center

• If you wish to discuss your work in progress with
  a Writing Center tutor you can send a request for
  an email consultation to writing_center_at_dcemail.ha
  rvard.edu.
• Look at the Writing Center website for more
  information about what to include in your email 
• http//www.extension.harvard.edu/2009-10/resources
  /writing.jsp. 

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Some Sample 1.2 exercises

• Christine
• Ruy
• Timothy
• Heather
• Sample JAMc Comments Stephanie

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Class Discussion

• The Things They Carried,
• By Tim OBrien

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Classical Rhetoric and the Aristotelian Appeals

• The strategies we use when we write or speak
  persuasively

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In Class Exercise

• For the next twenty minutes, please think about
  one character you have read about in the various
  texts I have assigned in this course thus far.
• If you were going to conduct a rhetorical
  analysis of that character, how would you go
  about doing so? Is that character an
  ethos-driven character? Does the character employ
  the pathetic appeal? the logical appeal?

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Moving from your 1.3 Outline to your First Draft

• Lecture

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Strong Paragraph StructureAgain

• Clear, direct topic sentence that states some
  sort of claim
• Evidence and examples from the text that respond
  to and/or support that claim
• Transitions and coherent explication if you are
  addressing a complex claim with several points of
  connection
• YOUR ANALYSIS OF THAT EVIDENCE!!!
• A sentence that both provides closure and helps
  transition into the next paragraph.

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Exercise 1.4 First Draft

• Please refine and strengthen your introductory
  paragraph of Essay 1. Make sure to include a
  strong opening sentence, a quick summary of your
  story, your analytical question, and your thesis
• MAKE SURE TO GROUND YOUR ARGUMENT IN A
  CLOSE-READING OF THIS TEXT
• Then, build your body paragraphs from the outline
  you constructed in 1.3
• Make sure to look at your paragraph structure
  very, VERY carefully
• In your conclusion, feel free to expand on your
  thesis, perhaps even bringing your own life
  experience.