English
1101: Argument and Interpretation
Schedule
of Assignments and Due Dates
The
Gordon State College Writing Handbook
Essay Assignments:
Essay 2:
Creative Non-fiction Interpretation
Sample Essays:
Creative
Non-fiction Interpretation
Revision
(with cover page and underlined changes)
Links of Interest:
Full
text of “The Great Silence”
Full
text of “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
Full
text of “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom”
Learn
about the Arecibo Observatory here
Allora and Calzadilla at the 2011
Venice Biennale
Allora
and Calzadilla’s “The Great Silence”
Irene
Pepperberg discusses Alex
Irene
Pepperberg on Parrot Intelligence
Clynes and Kline’s “Cyborgs in Space”
Donna
Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”
Solomon
Shereshevskii’s incredible memory
“For Want of a
Nail” nursey rhyme
The Many-Worlds
Interpretation of Quantum Physics
Sidney Lumet’s Q&A
Martin Scorsese’s The Departed
Woody Allen’s Radio Days and the submarine sighting
Nasa
vapor tracer experiments; TMA experiments here
Rei
Kawakubo retrospective at the Met
The Gold Diggers of Broadway
(1929)
An Introduction to
the Shakers
Watervliet
West Family Shaker Site FOR SALE
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
Understanding Smithson’s
non-sites
In-class Writing Lessons and
Handouts:
Comma
Usage and Sentence Structure Writing Guide
Paragraph
Composition, Unity, and Transitions
Annotated
Continuity and Transitions Worksheet
How to
Link Your Topic Sentences to your Thesis and Introduction
How
to Write MLA Parenthetical Citations
Online Resources for Essay
Assignments 3 and 4:
Full text of Oates’s “Where Are You
Going, Where Have You Been?”
Medieval and Renaissance illustrations of
“Death
and the Maiden”
Listen to Bob Dylan’s, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
Lyrics for “It’s All
Over Now, Baby Blue”
Oates’s review
of Smooth Talk
Online Film Review Sites for Essay
4:
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