Harvard Extension School Expo E-25; Section 8 (7:45PM-9:45PM) Instructor: Julie Anne McNary Please check your Elluminate Audio Wizard We will begin at 7:45PM.

Online WebConference Via Elluminate Software Website: Elluminate Room: Expository Writing E25: Introduction to Academic Writing and Critical Reading Analyzing the Short Story

Overview  MORE Housecleaning – comments, drop box, text book, issues, most importantly, first conferences, and finally, The Writing Center;  Another call to arms…  Class Discussion and in-class writing exercise: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien  The Aristotelian Appeals – how can we use this material when analyzing short stories  Your rhetoric exercises  Moving from your 1.3 outline to Exercise 1.4, First Draft of Essay #1

Our Book and Chapters ISBN # ISBN # Chapters we’ve read so far: Chapters we’ve read so far: –1: Reading a Story –2. Point of View –3. Character –4. Setting –5. Tone and Style –6. Theme –13. Writing about A Story Chapters assigned: Chapters assigned: –7. Symbol –8. Evaluating a Story

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Some Sample 1.2 exercises Christine Christine Ruy Ruy Timothy Timothy Heather Heather Sample JAMc Comments – Stephanie Sample JAMc Comments – Stephanie

The Things They Carried, By Tim O’Brien Class Discussion

Classical Rhetoric and the Aristotelian Appeals The strategies we use when we write or speak persuasively

In Class Exercise For the next twenty minutes, please think about one character you have read about in the various texts I have assigned in this course thus far. For the next twenty minutes, please think about one character you have read about in the various texts I have assigned in this course thus far. If you were going to conduct a rhetorical analysis of that character, how would you go about doing so? Is that character an ethos-driven character? Does the character employ the pathetic appeal? the logical appeal? If you were going to conduct a rhetorical analysis of that character, how would you go about doing so? Is that character an ethos-driven character? Does the character employ the pathetic appeal? the logical appeal?

Lecture Moving from your 1.3 Outline to your First Draft

Strong Paragraph Structure…Again Clear, direct topic sentence that states some sort of claim; Clear, direct topic sentence that states some sort of claim; Evidence and examples from the text that respond to and/or support that claim; Evidence and examples from the text that respond to and/or support that claim; Transitions and coherent explication if you are addressing a complex claim with several points of connection; Transitions and coherent explication if you are addressing a complex claim with several points of connection; YOUR ANALYSIS OF THAT EVIDENCE!!! YOUR ANALYSIS OF THAT EVIDENCE!!! A sentence that both provides closure and helps transition into the next paragraph. A sentence that both provides closure and helps transition into the next paragraph.

Exercise 1.4 – First Draft Please refine and strengthen your introductory paragraph of Essay #1. Make sure to include a strong opening sentence, a quick summary of your story, your analytical question, and your thesis; Please refine and strengthen your introductory paragraph of Essay #1. Make sure to include a strong opening sentence, a quick summary of your story, your analytical question, and your thesis; MAKE SURE TO GROUND YOUR ARGUMENT IN A CLOSE-READING OF THIS TEXT; MAKE SURE TO GROUND YOUR ARGUMENT IN A CLOSE-READING OF THIS TEXT; Then, build your body paragraphs from the outline you constructed in 1.3; Then, build your body paragraphs from the outline you constructed in 1.3; Make sure to look at your paragraph structure very, VERY carefully; Make sure to look at your paragraph structure very, VERY carefully; In your conclusion, feel free to expand on your thesis, perhaps even bringing your own life experience. In your conclusion, feel free to expand on your thesis, perhaps even bringing your own life experience.