Friday, April 21

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I will be in my office (or down in the classroom) until 10 a.m. today collecting portfolios. If you can't make that deadline, there will be a box outside my door. If that seems sketchy, there is a large wooden pillar/drop box outside the English department office. Make sure that my name is on the portfolio so it can be directed to me. I would not be too late, as grades are due soon. I plan on finishing my grading by Monday at 5pm.


As we stated in class, (so both of you that attended may remember this), the portfolio should include the following:

1. significant event paper
2. summary strong strong response
3. bibliography
4. research paper

You can also include any work you did for Paul Nodal prior to my arrival.

In your cover letter, as we discussed IN CLASS, you should include the following:

1. An explanation of how you revised your work, and why.
2. Tell me what you've learned during the semester
3. Tell me what grade you feel you actually deserve given the work that you did for the course.


Thank you.

Friday, April 14

research papers are due today at 8 a.m., the end of class. Anything submitted after that is late.

Wednesday, April 5

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Today: discuss chapter 22


April 7th, Friday: Annotated Bibliography due
April 14th, Friday: exploratory research paper due
UCSC Library - How To Write an Annotated Bibliography: "3. PURPOSE


Not to be confused with the abstract%u2014which merely gives a
summary of the main points of a work%u2014the annotated bibliography both
describes and evaluates those points. Whether an annotated bibliography
concludes an article or book%u2014or is even itself a comprehensive, book-length
listing of sources%u2014its purposes are the same:

To
illustrate the scope and quality of one's own research
To review the
literature published on a particular topic
To provide the reader/researcher
with supplementary, illustrative or alternative sources
To allow the
reader to see if a particular source was consulted
To provide examples
of the type of resources available on a given topic
To place original
research in a historical context"