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Nonfiction Essays –“Somebody’s Baby”
Regarding the essay “Somebody’s Baby,” please respond to the following items as a comment to this blog post: Describe the rhetorical (persuasive) strategy of the essay (how does it accomplish its...
View ArticleReading Assignment for Wednesday, February 17
In addition to reading “The America I Love” by Elie Wiesel in The Conscious Reader (835-37), please read and be prepared to discuss the following 1988 essay by Peggy McIntosh on Wednesday, February 17:...
View ArticleWriting Assignment for Friday Feb 19
Linked below is an excerpt from a book-length work of nonfiction by Annie Dillard titled An American Childhood. I would like you to treat this piece as if it were a complete essay for the RA due on...
View ArticleFreedom to Interpret – Reading for Wednesday
For Wednesday, please print a copy of Roland Barthes’s very short (3-page) essay “The Death of the Author” from the Link below and read the essay before class. I encourage you to annotate your copy of...
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Exploring Cultural Identity
To practice thinking and writing about the idea of a research question, which is required for the research paper, please choose to focus on either “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie or “My...
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