Pick a Book!

(ENG 111-S14F, #56695, Prof. Tim Dalton) | Link to Collaborative Rubric (Sept 22)

Peer Editing Draft due

Sept 22, by 9am to Google Docs (see Chalkboard for your group)

Graded Revision Due

Sept 29, by 9am to Google Forms.

Note: Since this module’s readings and learning activities have covered skills related to source use practices and documentation, I will look for their demonstration in your essay while determining whether there is more to do for it to be marked “complete” (see our grading contract.)

Instructions

Default Prompt:

Write an essay of 750-1000 words where you select a book to read (either Heavy, Fairest, or Ordinary Girls) in our Module 3 book groups. Use this essay to explain why you’ve picked that book based on our previewing and research activities. Remember: Your thesis for this can be relatively simple (I would like to read A because it will help me know more about B). There are more complicated ways to formulate this, too: (I would like to read A with Students B and C, because it will help us know more about topic D in the context of Situation E). But that second formulation is structurally the same as the simpler one. Whatever your reasoning, you’ll want to make sure that this reasoning stays consistent throughout your body paragraphs. 

Hopefully helpful hint: Essentially, the logic of this argument (its unstated assumption) is that reading the book you’ve selected will help you (and maybe others) learn more about a topic. That interest in learning about that topic should drive the evidence you select, quote, and analyze in your body paragraphs. Those paragraphs should draw on both primary sources (work from these books and by these authors) and secondary sources (work about these books or about these authors). 

If there is a direction you’d like to go in that is not listed here, let me know before peer editing.

Please email with any questions.