Your first reading assignment in the textbook will be scheduled for mid-September, which will give you ample time to order and receive your copy before you are required to have it in class. On those days, we will examine portions of the chapters in class and complete some of the exercises related to the reading. Bring your copy to class on the days when the title, Writing Analytically, appears in bold on the course calendar. TextbookĪll of you in sections 23 and 24 of English 1103 are required to have the paperback edition of the textbook, Writing Analytically, 8 th edition, by David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen. If you have any questions about the assignments, the course policies, or the calendar, please let me know. An additional copy of the syllabus is included at the end of this blog entry. Continue to review the syllabus, which is posted in the Content section of Blackboard. To begin the collaboration and inquiry that will figure prominently this semester-along with analysis-you worked together in groups to find the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the course. Posted in English 1103, Teaching, Writing ENG 1103: First-Day Follow-UpĪm I the person who will teach your English 1103 class? I posed that question yesterday in class as a starting point for analysis, one of the key features of the course. To up your game and increase your word power, review the tips and tools on the Scrabble website as well as my blog posts devoted to the game. The hard deadline is Friday, February 24 Next Upįriday marks your fifth Wordplay Day of the semester. Your revisions are due on Blackboard and on your blogs on Wednesday, Febraury 22. You will have an additional week to continue to revise. Next Wednesday, February 15, I will return your handwritten drafts with notes, and you will have the class period to begin revising on your laptops and tablets. “Analytical writing is more concerned with arriving at an understanding of a subject than it is with either self-expression or changing readers’ views” 95).“sk not just ‘What is it made of?’ but also ‘How do these parts help me to understand the meaning of the subject as a whole?” (5).“In order to understand a subject, we need to discover what it is ‘made of,’ the particulars that contribute most strongly to the character of the whole” (5).“One common denominator in all effective analytical writing is that it pays close attention to detail” (5).Among the key points to keep in mind as you write are these: If you begin an analysis of one of the texts listed above and decide you would rather write about “The School,” you are welcome to change your focus.Īs a starting point for your analysis planning, this morning you will read the pages in Writing Analytically devoted to analysis. On Monday we will read a short story, “The School” by Donald Barthelme, which will serve as an additional option for your analysis. “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris.“Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.The first paragraphs of “The Falling Man” by Tom Junod.“The Day Language Came into My Life” by Helen Keller.The first paragraphs of “Back Story” by Michael Lewis.This morning you will begin your analysis of one of the texts we have studied in class, which include these:
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