Saturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
FINAL PORTFOLIO/Exam
FYW 1216 – Adventures with Text
FINAL EXAM: Students will submit all work in a final portfolio, including all work throughout the course and a reflective piece on the quality of your essays and your new awareness of your writing process.
Minimum Requirements for course credit:
• Submit all essays in MULTIPLE DRAFTS before the last day of the course; initial drafts and subsequent drafts should be submitted with great care, as if each is the final submission, but students are expected to participate in process writing as a minimum requirement of this course.
• Demonstrate adequate understanding of proper documentation and citation of sources through a single well-cited essay or several well-cited essays. A cited essay MUST be included in your final portfolio.
REQUIRED Final Portfolio; submit as attachments to a final email:
· [ ] Final drafts of Essay 1, Essay 2, Essay 3, and Essay 4 (you MUST have submitted all essays as a first submission and rewrite BEFORE this final portfolio submission). Label each file as Lastname.E.#.Final.docx .Identify the THREE you want graded for your final grade.
· [ ] Submit a final REFLECTION that discusses what you have learned about yourself as a writer, what you understand about your writing process, and what you need to continue to work on regarding your writing.
· [ ] Attach your mid-term project and your adaptation 2 presentation.
FINAL EXAM/ portfolio DUE
FYW-1216 (01) 8:30
FYW-1216 (02) 12
***Final Schedule***
E.1, E.1RW, E.2, E.2RW, E.3, E.3RW – DUE November 21, 2014
E.4 First Submission DUE November 26, 2014 Noon
E.4RW DUE December 12, 2014 3 pm
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
FINAL Exam, Portfolio
FYW 1216 – Adventures with Text
FINAL EXAM: Students will submit all work in a final portfolio, including all work throughout the course and a reflective piece on the quality of your essays and your new awareness of your writing process.
http://comicsasliterature.blogspot.com/p/fyw-1216-01-adventures-in-genre.html
Minimum Requirements for course credit:
• Submit all essays in MULTIPLE DRAFTS before the last day of the course; initial drafts and subsequent drafts should be submitted with great care, as if each is the final submission, but students are expected to participate in process writing as a minimum requirement of this course.
• Demonstrate adequate understanding of proper documentation and citation of sources through a single well-cited essay or several well-cited essays. A cited essay MUST be included in your final portfolio.
FINAL EXAM/ portfolio DUE December 16
FYW-1216 (01) 8:30
FYW-1216 (02) 12
FINAL EXAM: Students will submit all work in a final portfolio, including all work throughout the course and a reflective piece on the quality of your essays and your new awareness of your writing process.
http://comicsasliterature.blogspot.com/p/fyw-1216-01-adventures-in-genre.html
Minimum Requirements for course credit:
• Submit all essays in MULTIPLE DRAFTS before the last day of the course; initial drafts and subsequent drafts should be submitted with great care, as if each is the final submission, but students are expected to participate in process writing as a minimum requirement of this course.
• Demonstrate adequate understanding of proper documentation and citation of sources through a single well-cited essay or several well-cited essays. A cited essay MUST be included in your final portfolio.
REQUIRED Final Portfolio; submit as attachments to a final email:
· [ ] Final drafts of Essay 1, Essay 2, Essay 3, and Essay 4 (you MUST have submitted all essays as a first submission and rewrite BEFORE this final portfolio submission). Label each file as Lastname.E.#.Final.docx .Identify the THREE you want graded for your final grade.
· [ ] Submit a final REFLECTION that discusses what you have learned about yourself as a writer, what you understand about your writing process, and what you need to continue to work on regarding your writing.
· [ ] Attach your mid-term project and your adaptation 2 presentation.FINAL EXAM/ portfolio DUE December 16
FYW-1216 (01) 8:30
FYW-1216 (02) 12
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Multigenre Papers
Multigenre Papers
Explore sample multigenre essays at the above link.
Also explore Tom Romano's web site HERE.
Explore sample multigenre essays at the above link.
Also explore Tom Romano's web site HERE.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Friday October 4
You will have class Friday October 4 without me present.
Form 4 groups of 3 classmates, and do the following:
Form 4 groups of 3 classmates, and do the following:
- Discuss Style, Lesson 6, and your chosen Zinsser essay
- Discuss Nick Mamatas's "The Inevitability of Formulaic Writing in Literary Fiction: A Case Study." What is the tone and point of this essay?
- Discuss Kurt Vonnegut's "Science Fiction" (handout). Why is Vonnegut concerned about being labeled a science fiction writer?
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Midterm
Reminder:
W 10/16 MIDTERM
Writer/Scholar Project (in-class share; video/PP submission DUE)
[ ] MIDTERM: Choose either a published writer or a scholar (for example, a Furman professor) to research and/or interview about her/his life as a writer/scholar. Prepare a 10-minute video (edited interview) or PowerPoint (multimedia) presentation to submit to the professor (due on midterm) and contribute to a class analysis and synthesis of projects in class on midterm.
Midterm:
W 10/16 MIDTERM
Writer/Scholar Project (in-class share; video/PP submission DUE)
DUE OCTOBER 2:
Email and confirm for me who you will focus on (professor/department or professional writer/genre) to be approved
Friday, September 13, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
Writing as a Young Scholar/Academic
Writing as a Young Scholar/Academic
Writing in an academic and/or scholarly setting, such as writing as a student, has some expectations that strongly impact how the young scholar is evaluated. Here are some key issues to consider when writing as a young scholar in a variety of academic settings:
• Submit work that has been carefully copyedited. A sloppy document is often viewed harshly. You should run the “Spelling and Grammar” tool in Word; you should have a peer proofread. But do not submit sloppy documents in any academic or scholarly setting—even if the work is a draft yet to be finalized.
• Some surface features of writing are judged strictly in academia—sentence formation, verb tense/form, paragraphing, and overall document and citation formatting. Be careful with the following:
(1) Sentences must be formed purposefully. Great care should be taken to punctuate and form complete sentences—with fragments and run-on sentence formations being rare and purposeful. Often, students are not allowed any deviation from complete sentence formation.
(2) Maintain control of your verb tense and forms. Verbs should be in present tense when discussing the action of a text (books, films), but in past tense when dealing with historical or contemporary real events. Again, students are expected to show control of verb tense and forms—using and shifting these tenses and forms with purpose.
(3) Conform to the citation requirements of the field—APA, MLA, or whatever citation style sheet the field requires. Documentation form, document margins, page breaks, headers/footers, headings/subheads, spacing—all of these surface details matter, and students should be diligent with them.
• Choose your words (diction) and tone carefully—making sure that the diction and tone match the level of your content. Students are often careless with diction/tone resulting in undermining their claims. “Get,” “fix,” “it,” “thing,” “there [to be],” “good,” “bad,” and similar common words are lifeless and beneath the emphasis you want to place on serious topics. Above all else, your diction and tone must match your purpose and topics.
• Academic writing must have a clear focus; often, the primary purpose of academic writing is to argue or promote a perspective. Students tend to write better when they see their essay as an argument of some kind. Can you answer this, “What is the central point you want your reader to understand or embrace after reading your essay?” Every word in an essay must in some way contribute to the central focus/purpose.
• All claims must be supported by evidence and elaboration. In fact, providing evidence and elaboration is the primary bulk of any essay. Claims are brief and have little weight; the evidence and elaborations/explanations are what convince a reader. When discussing a text directly, such as a novel, students must make direct textual references (quotes with citations). When quotes are included in a scholarly work, the writer must integrate those quotes grammatically with her/his original sentences. Here are some examples using APA citation (note the placement of punctuation, verb tense, title formatting, spacing, quote marks):
[First reference in a paragraph]
The Lacuna opens with a sentence that suggests foreboding for the story to come: “In the beginning were the howlers” (Kingsolver, 2009, p. 3).
[A second or subsequent reference in a paragraph]
Kingsolver pulls the reader further into the mysterious tone of the novel’s opening with “[a]s it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world” (p. 3).
[A quote of a quote (dialogue), second reference or after]
When the boy’s mother mentions his having a girl friend, the boy responds abruptly, “'I won’t have a girlfriend'” (Kingsolver, p. 9).
• Never simply use cut-and-paste quoting in an essay.
[Cut-and-paste quoting]
Kingsolver’s novel opens with a mother and son adjusting to life in Mexico. “It should have been like a storybook here” (p. 3). But they appear to be trapped in a life they don’t expect.
• Sophisticated writing doesn’t announce the claims and arguments to be made; simply make the claims or arguments.
[Announced]
Atwood’s novel is a perfect example of a novel taking a position on a topic.
[Claim made]
Atwood’s novel forces the reader to look beyond the stereotype of a feminist by portraying June’s mother as a feminist participating in a book and video burning.
• Citation formatting must be followed fully and consistently. With some style sheets, the requirements are unusual and confusing (especially with the format of the bibliographies), but students and scholars must follow these guidelines. Note spacing, line spacing, and indentation requirements; capitalization guidelines; title formats; placement of punctuation; listing for page numbers; and proper citing in the flow of your essay. SEE SAMPLE ESSAYS AND LOOK CAREFULLY AT APA EXPECTATIONS FOR IN-TEXT CITATIONS AND THE REFERENCES LIST.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism | Brain Pickings
How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism | Brain Pickings
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Barbara Kingsolver
I have uploaded some Kingsolver to a folder in your FYW folder on google drive.
You can access the essays HERE.
You can access the essays HERE.
Adaptation Unit 1: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Adaptation Unit 1
"Fahrenheit 451" 60 Years Later: "Why do we need the things in books?"
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (60th anniversary edition)
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (graphic novel)
Fahrenheit 451 (Film)
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Essay 1?
Since we just looked at some Kurt Vonnegut, and you SHOULD be thinking about essay 1….
Just what kinds of essays do writers write?
Look at this one about Vonnegut and labor:
The working class needs its next Kurt Vonnegut
The "Slaughterhouse Five" author was a tireless champion of union workers -- and believed capitalism was inhuman
by Matthew Gannon AND Wilson Taylor
See how this mixed several different approaches to writing (history, argument, literature), and consider how you want to approach essay 1:
• Topic?
• Audience?
• Perspectives?
• Tone?
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
"Graceless," The National
Graceless
The National
[See lyrics with annotations HERE]
[Verse 1]
Graceless
Is there a powder to erase this?
Is it dissolvable and tasteless?
You can't imagine how I hate this
Graceless
I'm trying, but I'm graceless
I don't have the sunny side to face this
I am invisible and weightless
You can't imagine how I hate this
Graceless
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm trying, but I'm gone, and through the glass again
Just come and find me
God loves everybody, don't remind me
I took the medicine, and I went missing
Just let me hear your voice
Just let me listen
Graceless
[Verse 2]
I figured out how to be faithless
But it would be a shame to waste this
You can't imagine how I hate this
Graceless
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm trying, but I'm gone and through the glass again
Just come and find me
God loves everybody, don't remind me
I took the medicine, and I went missing
Just let me hear your voice
Just let me listen
[Chorus]
All of my thoughts of you
Bullets through rotten fruit
Come apart at the seams
Now I know what dying means
I am not my rosy self
Left my roses on my shelf
Take the white ones, they're my favorite
It's the side effects that save us
Grace
Put the flowers you find in a vase
If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place
Don't let them die on the vine, it's a waste
Grace
[Bridge]
There's a science to walking through windows
There's a science to walking through windows
There's a science to walking through windows
There's a science to walking through windows without you
[Chorus]
All of my thoughts of you
Bullets through rotten fruit
Come apart at the seams
Now I know what dying means
I am not my rosy self
Left my roses on my shelf
Take the white ones, they're my favorite
It's the side effects that save us
Grace
Put the flowers you find in a vase
If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place
Don't let them die on the vine, it's a waste
Grace
[X2]
The National
[See lyrics with annotations HERE]
[Verse 1]
Graceless
Is there a powder to erase this?
Is it dissolvable and tasteless?
You can't imagine how I hate this
Graceless
I'm trying, but I'm graceless
I don't have the sunny side to face this
I am invisible and weightless
You can't imagine how I hate this
Graceless
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm trying, but I'm gone, and through the glass again
Just come and find me
God loves everybody, don't remind me
I took the medicine, and I went missing
Just let me hear your voice
Just let me listen
Graceless
[Verse 2]
I figured out how to be faithless
But it would be a shame to waste this
You can't imagine how I hate this
Graceless
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm trying, but I'm gone and through the glass again
Just come and find me
God loves everybody, don't remind me
I took the medicine, and I went missing
Just let me hear your voice
Just let me listen
[Chorus]
All of my thoughts of you
Bullets through rotten fruit
Come apart at the seams
Now I know what dying means
I am not my rosy self
Left my roses on my shelf
Take the white ones, they're my favorite
It's the side effects that save us
Grace
Put the flowers you find in a vase
If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place
Don't let them die on the vine, it's a waste
Grace
[Bridge]
There's a science to walking through windows
There's a science to walking through windows
There's a science to walking through windows
There's a science to walking through windows without you
[Chorus]
All of my thoughts of you
Bullets through rotten fruit
Come apart at the seams
Now I know what dying means
I am not my rosy self
Left my roses on my shelf
Take the white ones, they're my favorite
It's the side effects that save us
Grace
Put the flowers you find in a vase
If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place
Don't let them die on the vine, it's a waste
Grace
[X2]
Thursday, August 29, 2013
POWER, AUTHORITY, AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, Patricia Bizzell
POWER, AUTHORITY, AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, Patricia Bizzell
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
My Introduction: Dr. Thomas
Hello, I am Paul Thomas, your FYW professor. My writing is under the name P. L. Thomas because I fell in love with the poetry of e.e. cummings and the fiction of J.D. Salinger.
I have been a teacher for thirty years—eighteen years as a high school English teacher at Woodruff High (Woodruff, SC) and the last twelve as a professor in the Education Department here at Furman.
I am also a writer. I have written and edited many books, I have chapters in several books, I am very proud of my Kurt Vonnegut scholarship, I write poetry, and I write original blogs many days each week, usually on issues related to education.
I have been a serious cyclist for almost thirty years, also. I ride about 4-5 days a week and about 8,000 to 10,000 miles a year. Each year, a few friends and I do a 220+ mile ride to the beach in one day, about 14 hours of cycling.
I also do a good bit of work and posting on Twitter: @plthomasEdD.
I enjoy science fiction so two of my favorite movies are Blade Runner and Solaris.
My favorite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, Cormac McCarthy, Milan Kundera, and dozens more (I read a lot and have many, many books).
I enjoy The National, CAKE, R.E.M., Ben Folds, Beck, Fiona Apple, and many other musical performers and groups.
I love teaching and especially love to teach writing. I am excited about our class, and hope you enjoy this semester.
I have been a teacher for thirty years—eighteen years as a high school English teacher at Woodruff High (Woodruff, SC) and the last twelve as a professor in the Education Department here at Furman.
I am also a writer. I have written and edited many books, I have chapters in several books, I am very proud of my Kurt Vonnegut scholarship, I write poetry, and I write original blogs many days each week, usually on issues related to education.
I have been a serious cyclist for almost thirty years, also. I ride about 4-5 days a week and about 8,000 to 10,000 miles a year. Each year, a few friends and I do a 220+ mile ride to the beach in one day, about 14 hours of cycling.
I also do a good bit of work and posting on Twitter: @plthomasEdD.
I enjoy science fiction so two of my favorite movies are Blade Runner and Solaris.
My favorite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, Cormac McCarthy, Milan Kundera, and dozens more (I read a lot and have many, many books).
I enjoy The National, CAKE, R.E.M., Ben Folds, Beck, Fiona Apple, and many other musical performers and groups.
I love teaching and especially love to teach writing. I am excited about our class, and hope you enjoy this semester.
DUE: Friday 8/30 and Wednesday 9/4
Friday 8/30
- Email (reply ALL to the email I send about these assignments) an introduction about YOU. You may include your background, preferred name, possible major, reason you are at Furman, hobbies, favorite stuff (books, authors, films, music, etc.), and such.
- Email (to ME ONLY) your version of Sandra Cisneros's "A House of My Own"
- Read "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut, and "The Politics of Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron,'" Darryl Hattenhauer
- We will view in class 2081
Monday, August 26, 2013
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Monday, August 19, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Transformative Works and Cultures Vol 13 (2013)
Appropriating, Interpreting, and Transforming Comic Books, edited by Matthew J. Costello, Saint Xavier University, Chicago
Vol 13 (2013)
Vol 13 (2013)
Friday, June 14, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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Friday, March 22, 2013
More-than-One-Sentence Reviews: Review: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, by Ph...
More-than-One-Sentence Reviews: Review: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, by Ph...: I've loved the fairy tales as collected by the Brothers Grimm for many, many years, and I found Philip Pullman 's His Dark Materia...
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