1. Harvard Extension School Expo E-25; Section 12 (5:30PM-7:30PM) Instructor: Julie Anne McNary 1. Please check your Elluminate Audio Wizard; 2. Then, please find a Google Image that represents your home town, and cut and paste it to your desktop; 3. We will begin at 5:30PM.

2. Harvard University Extension School Fall Semester 2009 Expository Writing E25: Introduction to Academic Writing and Critical Reading Analyzing the Short Story

3. Section 12; Monday evenings, 5:30PM- 7:30PM Online WebConference Via Elluminate Software Website: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k64023 Elluminate Room: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007009&password=M.3163A85F45E3980D9A1F3875B7EED6 http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k64023

4. Your Instructor: Julie Anne McNary B.A., Wellesley College, 1994 English Literature M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1995 Language and Literacy MA/M.F.A, University of Utah, 1998 British & American Literature and Creative Writing Cell Phone: (617) 233-7532 – no calls after 10PM – Voicemail during business hours jmcnary@post.harvard.edu

5. Introductions: Whiteboard tools Whiteboard tools Google Images and Names Google Images and Names Please e-mail me the following to: jmcnary@post.harvard.edu Please e-mail me the following to: jmcnary@post.harvard.edu jmcnary@post.harvard.edu Name, Title, Company, School, best phone number and cell phone number, e-mail address. Name, Title, Company, School, best phone number and cell phone number, e-mail address.

6. Writing Assessment Test In the next thirty (30) minutes, please write a letter to your instructor outlining your experience thus far with formal or academic writing. You may write about your experiences in school, or at work, but try to outline your strengths and weaknesses, the level of instruction you have received, and how much you enjoy the writing process. In the next thirty (30) minutes, please write a letter to your instructor outlining your experience thus far with formal or academic writing. You may write about your experiences in school, or at work, but try to outline your strengths and weaknesses, the level of instruction you have received, and how much you enjoy the writing process. Make an attempt to organize your letter into coherent and clear paragraphs. Try to formulate an introduction and a conclusion of some kind. Make an attempt to organize your letter into coherent and clear paragraphs. Try to formulate an introduction and a conclusion of some kind.

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9. Writing Exercise 1.1 In the next two weeks, after you have completed the reading assignments, please choose aspect of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever, one pattern that you notice, either in a repeated image, narrative move, plot point, situation, or character’s behavior, and write a one-page explication of what you have found so compelling. In the next two weeks, after you have completed the reading assignments, please choose aspect of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever, one pattern that you notice, either in a repeated image, narrative move, plot point, situation, or character’s behavior, and write a one-page explication of what you have found so compelling.