Saturday, February 23, 2019
Writing and David Foster Wallace
Writing assignment Write a well-organized, 2-3 paragraph receipt to Wallachs speech. Your response should be typed, double-spaced, and in a reasonable-sized font. This required writing testament not be marked with a letter-grade. However, you will receive pen comments in response to your paper, and this paper will prep be you for your number one chunk quiz assignment. Questions to consider as you write your response 1 . What are some of your favorite ideas from the speech, and why are these Ideas compelling to you? For Wallace, what Is authorised roughly a college education? 3. What do you think close to Wallachs Ideas regarding education? 4. For you, what Is Important about a college education? You do not need to act each of these questions In order. Rather, synthesize your ideas into a well-organized response that captures your views about Wallachs speech, and your views about education. For next class, please come prepared to cover a a few(prenominal) quotes from the Wallace essay that you found particularly compelling.More importantly, please be prepared to discuss why these quotes were compelling to you. As this is your first writing assignment, and as this is the first day of class, youre probably wondering what I want to see in your writing. While each of your writing assignments will require different approaches, mainly speaking I want to see the following Passion/ minute/Engagement with topic Do you really try to make 1) discoveries? Do you really explore your Ideas and experiences, and the Ideas presented by the writers to whom you are responding?In other words, do you take your position as writer and thinker seriously? Do you make this essay your own? Do you care about what you are formula? Do you want your readers to care about what you are saying? 2) Organization Does you have an introduction that sets up a blueprint for what the stay of the essay will look like? Does your essay have a conclusion? Do you organize your topics and ide as into neat paragraphs and units? 3) Style Is your essay written in an appropriate, academic tone? Do you project authority? logic and Support Do your ideas make sense, and are they presented in a ratiocinative order? Are your claims supported by relevant details? 5) crown writing, grammar, and mechanics Is your essay free from serious sentence- level errors. 6) Creativity Does your essay surprise? Do you use colorful language, Images, and examples? Do you go In unexpected and Interesting directions? Do you reveal yourself In this essay and do you truly try to write about ideas that are important to you? home with some questions about the syllabus.
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