Category: English

  • “Exploring the World of Literature: A Journey Through the Lens of a Librarian”

    I have included instructions and rubic.
    it is just step #6. I do need it better than I wrote.
    I used a libgin book.

  • Title: Exploring the Intersection of Nature and Art: A Comparative Analysis of Landscape with a Stone Bridge, Wild Geese, and a Third Artwork

    For the papers you’ll need to analyze a relationship among three or more different works of art. For the first installment you may choose two different types of artworks by two different artists and for the second installment you can add one more different work by one more different artist. Landscape with a Stone Bridge by Rembrandt van Rijn and Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. for the final you could add another type of artwork that describes the same theme or content.
    Your paper will need to have three parts:
    An analysis of the artwork, in technical language relevant to each artwork—line, shape, texture, etc. in painting, for example—of the parts that are relevant to parts 2 and 3…
    An analysis of the relationship between the two/three works you have chosen. Explain why you, or other artists, see a connection (in one of several ways) among the works.
    An argument about why the combination/relationship of these artworks produces something socially or politically relevant. “The film Apocalypse Now, can be seen, through its various interwoven art forms, as a powerful anti-war film” for example. All work needs to be typed, as per the syllabus. You will need at least 1000 words and 4 sources for your final paper but should at least double that for an in-depth analysis.

  • “Exploring the Unknown: Developing a Nuanced Thesis through Research and Analysis”

    ENG 120 Research Paper Guidelines
    In your midterm Essay, you applied your critical thinking
    and analysis skills to a topic or issue of your choice. Now, you have the
    option to use this essay as the jumping off point into a more expansive
    research process, or, you can choose a new topic or issue of interest. Either
    way, the goal of this paper is for you to gain experience developing a nuanced
    research question, exploring it with a variety of sources, and then answering
    your question as best as possible by crafting a nuanced thesis statement (keeping
    in mind of course that all research still points to a horizon of unknown
    potentialities.) Research Paper Requirements:
    1.    
    9-10
    pages minimum, 12 pages max.
    2.    
    A developed thesis that is nuanced, insightful
    and clearly stated in your introduction. Note: the thesis is not the research
    question. If anything, the thesis is the “answer” you arrive at after
    thoroughly examining your sources.
    3.    
    A conclusion that summarizes your thesis and the
    main points and examples you’ve covered throughout your paper. Again, consider
    how you can point your reader towards the horizon of your research? What do you
    want your reader to think/feel/respond to by the time they are finished with
    your writing?
    4.    
    In-text MLA citations. This includes both direct
    quotes as well as any paraphrases you take from your sources. (You should have
    both.) Quotes should be a max of 2 sentences long.
    5.    
    Works
    Cited page in MLA format with a minimum of 8 sources, 1 of which come from
    academic or scholarly journals.
    6.    
    Annotated Bibliography with 9 sources, 8 of
    which must be incorporated into your final paper. Further instructions below.
    7.    
    Again, your paper should follow MLA citation and
    paper formatting guidelines. I highly suggest taking a moment to review this
    research paper example on Purdue Owl. 8. I also strongly encourage everyone,
    regardless of your current grade in the class, to make appointments at the
    Rockowitz Writing Center in advance of each paper deadline. 

  • Incorporating Others’ Voices: Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation in “A Formula for Happiness” by Arthur C. Brooks

    Throughout this course we will use summary, paraphrase, and quotation in our writing to include others’ voices and ideas alongside our own. In order to build a foundation for these skills, this assignment helps you review these three tools for source incorporation and will give you some feedback on your strengths, as well as areas for improvement moving forward.
    You will not be writing a paper for this assignment, just showing me that you can summarize, paraphrase, and create a Big Mac in three separate, unrelated paragraphs. 
    Tasks:
    Read and annotate “A Formula for Happiness”Links to an external site. by Arthur C. Brooks. While annotating, include the following: text marking, response, summary, and definition. In case this link doesn’t work for you, here is a pdf copy of the article Download a pdf copy of the article.
    Take a picture or scan of two pages from the article with your annotations, and upload these to Canvas.  If you use Word or an online annotation tool to annotate, you can upload the file.
    In one paragraph, summarize the entire article in 6-8 sentences.
    Include only the main points.
    Do not quote anything, and use all your own words.
    Include a signal phrase at the beginning with writer and article title.
    In another paragraph, paraphrase the paragraph beginning, “But today. . .”
    Include all details of the paragraph, about same length as paragraph.
    Do not quote anything, and use all your own words.
    Include a signal phrase at the beginning with writer and article title.
    Paraphrase can be difficult. Try to do your best. The first sentence of this paragraph refers to our right to pursue happiness. It is fine to mention what that pronoun “this” refers to. In terms of the actual paraphrasing, do a close reading of the paragraph first and take some notes. What exactly is it saying? What are all the points it is making in terms of those statistics? The first step is to completely understand it. The next step is to then translate it into your words/style of writing.
    In another paragraph, create a quotation Big Mac using two quotations of your choice from the article.
    Include bread, signal phrases, transitions, introductions to quotations, and analysis.
    You can put numbers 3-5 in one Word document. Set up your document using MLA Guidelines for heading, title, spacing, etc. Purdue OWL’s website outlines MLA FormattingLinks to an external site..Save your assignment as a Word document (.doc or .docx). You can then upload it to Canvas by clicking on the “Submit Assignment” button. If any of you need extra help with this, let me know.
    NOTE: You do not need in-text (parenthetical) citations for this assignment, as there are no page numbers for an online article. The signal phrases will count for the citation.

  • Title: “Surveillance in Schools: An Auto/Ethnographic Examination”

    My research essay is regarding surveillance in schools. I’ve ordered from writers and here and was given lots of bad writing, according from professors. I have attatched the writing that was given to me and was told was bad by professor. Any way you can fix it? It also needs annotatted bibliography and this project needs to be characterized as auto/ethnographic.
    1. Does your project demonstrate extensive engagement with the research from your annotated bibliography? (in the form of extended in-text analysis, paraphrase, citation, quotation, and footnotes). Note: you cannot pass this course without completion of the annotated bibliography. See #7 below.
    2. Can this project be characterized as auto/ethnographic? If not, is any of the research you use for this project auto/ethnographic–meaning that it makes use of fieldnotes, interviews, and/or archives? (if the project is not an auto/ethnography, but does make use of some ethnographic research elements, I will take that into consideration when grading)
    3. Does your project have a clearly organized trajectory and purpose? (e.g., its purpose can be summarized clearly in a few sentences; it starts by contextualizing a social justice problem in education; it considers and analyzes some of the reasons for how that problem came about, both socially and historically; it introduces and critiques modes of thought and action for addressing the problem. While you might not follow that trajectory exactly, it is an example of a clear path. If you can’t make your own path clear, then you have work to do). 4. Have you made an effort to use a cohesive and compelling design strategy that includes attention to typographical elements like how words are arranged on a page to facilitate readability and pleasure and/or how colors and graphics can invite certain frames of mind or mood?
    5. Have you given consideration to the multimedia aspect of this project–how to use photography and other visual elements effectively or recorded sound or video? 6. Did you include a works cited page after the essay? (not the same as a bibliography, a works cited refers to the sources you cited and engaged in the body of the essay).
    7. Did you include your annotated bibliography after the works cited page? For instructions, go HERE. 8. Did you do a spell and grammar check? Did you read your essay aloud one last time to check for any syntactically confusing sentences or unnecessary repetitions?

  • “Persuasive Letter: Convincing a Loved One to Change Their Behavior or Belief” “Mastering Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: Crafting a Persuasive Letter”

    Assignment PromptFor this assignment, you will be writing a letter compelling a friend or family member to change either a behavior or a belief with which you disagree. Choose your own topic, but for example, this letter could petition an enthusiastic neighbor to scale down his blinding Christmas decorations, an immature cousin to take a gap year between high school and college, a grandparent to vote to pass the new school district budget, a friend to stop drinking, or a spouse to reconcile with an estranged sibling. Because the letter will be written to an individual of your choosing, you must tailor your language and logic to the person to whom you are writing. Assignment-Specific Requirements:Thesis: Underline your thesis statement or the main claim of your letter.
    Page Formatting: Use MLA guidelines. Also add an opening salutation (e.g. Dear Sarah, or Hello, Jon.), and a closing salutation & signature (Best regards, Tom or Sincerely, Liza)MLA Requirements: See Formatting your Essay: MLA 8th Edition
    Rhetorical ModeThe goal of persuasive writing is to get a reader (your audience) to agree with your point of view. Persuasive writing blends facts and emotion to convince the reader that the writer is right. This genre relies on opinion and emotion to a greater extent than argumentative writing, but in moving a reader, the successful persuasive letter also deploys logically sound argumentation and quite often researched support and fact. Rhetorical ConsiderationsPurpose:The purpose of drafting a persuasive letter is to move your reader to agree with your point of view. Persuasion is single-minded; it is based on a conviction that a particular way of thinking or acting is the only way to go; all of the energy of the letter works toward this end. As a writer, you will present one side–your side. While an opposing point should be mentioned, it is only mentioned to be refuted or dismissed in the service of your position. Audience:Persuasive writing is almost always written with a particular audience in mind. For this piece of writing, you will direct your persuasive letter to one person. Thus, your audience is not imagined, but rather very real, and that person and their characteristics will inform many of the choices you make as a writer. The persuasive letter requires constant negotiation with another person’s mind. At every phase of the writing process, as you prewrite, draft, and revise, this assignment will ask you to imagine and anticipate how your reader feels, responds, and thinks. Form:This piece of writing will be presented using a letter format. Thus, while you still need an MLA-style heading to format your work for submission, you will address your letter directly to your reader with a formal letter salutation. Five Features of a Persuasive LetterRhetorical Situation: Persuasive Writing vs. Argumentative Writing: Persuasive writing, in a way, is a form of argumentative writing; however, the goal of persuasive writing is to get a reader or group of readers to agree with you/your point of view on a particular topic, and the goal of argumentative writing is to get the reader to acknowledge that your side is valid and is worth considering. Persuasive writing blends facts with emotion in an attempt to convince the reader that the writer is “right,” while in argumentative writing, the writer cites relevant reasons, credible facts, and sufficient evidence in order to convince the reader to consider a particular perspective. The nuances are subtle but important to consider. (Later in this course you will be crafting an argument and will see the differences in these genres of writing with greater clarity. The letter makes balanced use of the three rhetorical appeals to persuade a reader to change a behavior or belief. The three appeals, which come to us from that consequential deceased Greek, Aristotle, are: Ethos: a writer’s or speaker’s credibility. In your letter, therefore, ethos is you, sort of. It’s the “you” that your writing transmits to your reader, the sum total of your tone and languagechoices, and also the values and intelligence that your writing communicates. Therefore, be vigilant with your work because ethos is the appeal that’s most immediately harmed by faulty word choices, punctuation mistakes, and lapses in tone. Pathos: the appeal to a reader’s emotions and values. Get your reader to feel. Play (in a non-evil way) on their emotions–their compassion, their fears, their sense of community. Logos: the appeal to a reader’s logic or reason. Ensure your claims are logical, free of fallacies, and backed with specific support. Organization: Organize using argumentative structure: an introduction with a thesis/main claim, body paragraphs that advance points in support of the thesis/main claim, and a conclusion. Transitions: Uses transitional phrases to connect your ideas and move the reader forward smoothly and logically between sentences. Known Audience: The letter’s appeals are personalized to the reader’s characteristics–their professional role and its obligations, as well as their values and emotions. Formal or Informal Writing? The tone of the letter depends upon the recipient and your relationship and also upon subject matter. The tone should enhance the letter’s persuasive efforts, not undermine them. Always strive for a respectful approach.
    Mini-Lesson on ETHOS – PATHOS – LOGOSPlan to use these appeals heavily throughout your Persuasive Letter.

  • Title: Gender and Symbolism in Woolf and Joyce’s Works

    The following questions refer to our reading selections by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.
    1).  In A Room of One’s Own as a whole (see the video adaptation that I included in this module) and in the “Shakespeare’s Sister”  excerpt in our textbook, Virginia Woolf stresses that women need access to “500 pounds a year” [the British monetary equivalent of a U.S. dollar, which at the time when she wrote would probably be like $100,000 today) and “a room of her own” in order to write fiction.  What is she referring to with these symbols?  What does she think are the obstacles women face, both as writers but also in general in terms of their situation in society?
    2).  In “Professions for Women,” Virginia Woolf illustrates another impediment that women writers face, which she calls “The Angel in the House,” referring to stereotypical views of feminine behavior during the Victorian era which survived even into the modern age.  What are these gender stereotypes, and why does she claim she had to “kill” the Angel in the House in “self-defense” in order to write (because otherwise the Angel would have “killed” her instead)?
    3).  James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” uses many symbolic references, often with ambiguous meanings, to advance its idea about the “paralysis” afflicting the inhabitants of Ireland.  Pick TWO of the symbolic references below and explain how each contributes to the story’s theme:
    a. Lily . . . who was “literally run off her feet”
    b. galoshes
    c. the dinner party on January 6th 
    d. snow
    e. “the west” of Ireland
    f. the monks of Mount Melleray who sleep in their coffins
    g. “a woman . . . listening to distant music”
    h. Johnny the horse
    4).  Gabriel Conroy and Michael Furey are two key characters in “The Dead” with strong opposing symbolic roles and personal characteristics.  Explain who each character is and what their relationship is to each other (or rather, to Gretta Conroy), as well as the symbolic references of their names to archangels in the Catholic tradition.  In what way is each “dead” and which one is possibly more “alive,” in your view (and why)?
    5). James Joyce’s short stories often center on an “epiphany”–a moment of personal realization–experienced by a character during the story.  What is Gabriel Conroy’s epiphany in the last paragraphs of “The Dead”?

  • “The Little Mermaid: A Tale of Adaptation and Controversy”

    Basically writing about a piece of media that has been adapted into something else, so I’m choosing to write about “The Little Mermaid” original cartoon version vs. its live-action adaptation. Perhaps write about the comparison in plots, if it’s changed in any way, how the characters between the two films are either the same or different from one another, both appearance-wise and personality wise. Maybe even include the controversy about the casting of the live-action movie where they were trying to be more diverse and chose a person of color as Ariel. Try to push beyond the idea that an adaptation has to be faithful to the original source material and instead focus on how the film adapts or enhances elements from the source for good or for bad.

  • The Deadly Rise of Fentanyl: A Growing Concern for Youth

    I’m writing about an underlying issue and in my case im writing about the rise of fentanyl specfically in youth and why its a a problem. I completed the intro and first body paragraph. I need the rest of the essay and works cited page and everything listed in the documents below. “GRC” stands for Green River College and they have a database on this www.greenriver.edu › campus › holman-library › a-z-database-listing where the rest of my sources have to come from.