Eh 200 Spring 2011: Week Seven Class Three

Homework Review: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)

Read and annotate the next twenty pages for work and professionalism.

Reaction to the text?

Journal Work: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)

What were the significant details you found that related to work and professionalism?

How do they help us understand the lives of the characters as they can be expressed in terms of income, class, play, and setting?

Cite specific examples, with page numbers!

Group Presentations: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)

Class Discussion: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)

Next paper:

Literary Argument Assignment Sheet: Using Narrative Rhetoric to Convince and Persuade

For your paper, please respond to the following prompt:

At this point, you have read four stories, all of which touch on issues related to the social conditions that shape individual understandings of play and work.

Your job is to draft an argument on how and why specific events described in two of these stories either share or present different assessment of how social standing impacts understandings of work.

This paper will require that you present good working definitions for your key terms, and then that you develop your argument and explanations through close readings of the stories in question.

Format

Papers must be typed in 12 point, Times New Roman font, using black ink and double spacing. Margins must be set 1-inch and in informal heading must appear at the upper left corner. The author’s last name and the page number should appear in the upper right corner on every page except the first.

Audience

You are writing this paper for your peers and your instructor, as well as other students and instructors at Husson. Use language and expressions that are appropriate for this audience and explain your ideas in great enough depth that someone who is not familiar with them can understand them as well as you do.

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to inform and persuade your audience. In order to accomplish this, you will need to plan your points, gather support for them, establish your credibility, and appeal to your audience in a variety of ways using your knowledge of rhetorical strategies. Secondary purposes include development and support of a thesis and the smooth integration of source material.

Structure

Your knowledge of rhetoric should guide your organizational decisions, but some items are crucial. Your paper will need to include both introductory and concluding sections, as well as a thesis statement that frames your argument, but examples and claims should all be supported with evidence from your source texts.

Complete reading and annotating Maggie: A Girl of the Streets for our next class