Sunday, December 11, 2011

On the final exam

PRACTICE QUIZ
1. purpose of MLA header? what if you forget? what goes in it and where?

2. purpose of MLA parenthetical citation? format? for plays? punctuation?

3. purpose of works cited? format?

4. purpose of essay title? format?  punctuation? conventions? colon? what should it include?

5. purpose of 's? conventions and rules? plurals?

6. why does surface correctness matter? to readers? to graders? to employers?

7. How many errors can you find by careful proofreading? 100%? 80%? 50%? How can you correct errors you can't spot?

8. Define thesis statement. How general or specific should it be?

9. DEfine topic sentence. What should it include and not include?

10. Define fragment and how to fix it.

11. Define comma splice and how to fix it.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Monday's Blog: Reflect back

for Monday's blog: REFLECT ON ONE WORK OR ACTIVITY THAT YOU ENJOYED OR LEARNED FROM THIS SEMESTER

Monday, December 5, 2011

Prufrock

Prufock
Read and annotate "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
Wed Dec 7 blog: HOW the poem uses language is as important as WHAT it says: explain using one small example.
or write about #6 on p.1039 How do the fragments communicate about modern man?
or #11 on the allusions to "Coy Mistress" Q: How is Eliot's purpose different?
or #13 (and #5) on p.1040 what's similar and different about Hamlet and Prufrock?

Thursday's blog: Explain your best performance choices in Act I scene 2 (p.728) in a few lines from lines 62-89 or 106-132
Quite an accomplishment! A life well lived!