Expository Writing: Reminders for 12/4

1) Your Final Paper is due on Wednesday, Dec. 4.
2) If you want your paper returned to you, bring along a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
3) Be prepared to give a five-minute presentation about your Final Paper in which you answer these questions:
  a) Which films did you write about?
  b) What is the theme of your paper?
  c) Why did you choose those films and that theme?
  d) What is something (large or small) that you learned while writing or researching your Final Paper?

Writing for the Future: Assignment and Reminder

For Monday, Dec. 2, please bring with you to class a magazine article that you like.  Be prepared to say what kind of article it is, which magazine it is from and why you like it. Also be prepared to single out a passage from it that you are curious about for some reason.

Our final class is Wednesday, Dec. 4. Be sure to bring your Final Paper. If you'd like it back, also bring a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Writing for the Future: 11/25

Well, after our last class, I hope you feel that you know me a little better. Thanks for all the great questions!

On Monday, 11/25, we'll be looking at magazines and newspapers: legacy media. Bring whatever questions you may have about them.
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Expository Writing: Talking Points for 11/20

About Lost in Translation:
1) Would you call it a comedy?
2) Do you like it?
3) Does anything in it make you uncomfortable?
3) Do you see similarities between it and The Graduate?
4) Who is alienated in it?
5) What kinds of alienation are there in this movie?
6) How is the alienation shown?

Writing for the Future: Reminders for 11/18

1) Paper 6 is due on Monday (11/18). We'll workshop these papers then.
2) Spencer, please remember to bring your Future Point assignment with you. (Last chance!)
3) If you're having trouble with your Final Paper, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Writing for the Future: Reminders for 11/13

"Fascinating..."

1) If you haven't already done so, please read pages 158-163 in your text. It's about commas and related punctuation.
2) Diana: Please remember to bring in a published report containing a confusing use of commas.
3) Spencer: Please remember to bring in a published report with a beginning (or "lede") that you like or don't like, and be prepared to say why you feel that way.
4) If there's anyone left with an exercise or a paper that you haven't yet shared with the group (and if you would like to share it with the group), please bring it in.

Expository Writing for 11/13

Lots of Final Paper conferences today. Please try to arrive 5-10 minutes early. Conferences are in my office, 210 Orlando Hall:
Cecilia (3:00), Lucymar (3:10), Amanda (3:20), Tasha (3:30), Elena (3:40), Rob (3:50).

4:00-5:50: On 11/13, our class meets during this time. We'll watch Lost in Translation.

More Final Paper Conferences:
Mikaela & Anthony (5:50), Magnolia (6:00), Curtis (6:10), Rachel (6:20), Marianne (6:30).

Writing for the Future: Reminders for 11/11

1) Be sure to have read pages 207-216 in your text.
2) Come to class prepared to discuss the progress of your Final Paper.
3) Here's the quote from Woody Allen that I referred to in class: "Eighty percent of success is showing up." (There are, however, many variations of the phrase.)

Expository Writing for 11/6

1) If you haven't spoken in favor of (or against) a film you've seen outside of class, be prepared. We will definitely finish those up this week.

2) These students are scheduled for final paper proposals this week: Sam, Elizabeth & Bonnie. If you haven't signed up for a conference yet, please sign up in class this week.

3) Be prepared to discuss The Graduate and alienation. Some talking points:
    a) Who in this movie is alienated? How do you know?
    b) What does the music add to the movie?
    c) What is the meaning of the scene, early in the film, when an older man at a party tells Benjamin to think about "plastics"?
    d) Did you like or dislike this movie? Why?
    e) What is the meaning of the ending of the movie (on the bus)?

Writing for the Future for 11/4

Final paper conference schedule

Conferences are in my office, Orlando Hall 210.
Please try to arrive 5-10 minutes early.

1:30. Diana
1:40. Mikaela
1:50. Spencer
2:00. Jade
2:10. Jenna
2:20. Sherri
2:30. Ashley