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Assignment 7: Reading at a College Level Part 3

Purpose

1. Develop college level reading skills 2. Improve or begin usage of MLC citation mechanics. 3. Demonstrate correct quotation mechanic usage. 4. Understand the Reader Expectations for Paragraphs

Objectives

1. Explain how essays being read observe PRE at the sentence and paragraphs level

2. Reflect on the lessons you achieved from the Frye and Stafford essays in a reflection on the character of liberal education as presented in the Koch essay

3. Improve or begin usage of MLC citation mechanics.

Reading Assignments

• Chapter 8: The Phenomena of Paragraphs • Chapter 4: “Reading at a College Level,” the Koch essay • Chapter 10: “Research Paper Mechanics”: especially p. 221- 225 on citing

sources within your paragraphs.

Instructor Comments

There are only two activities for this assignment. In the first assignment, I give you a paragraph that you analyze for how well it observes PRE for paragraphs. Follow the instructions for steps 1 to 4, and then hand in the assignment. You will complete steps 5 to 8 for Assignment 8. I also have included the video on fragging a paragraph that was in Assignment 6.

For the writing assignment for this Assignment, see below under “Assignments.”

In the 2nd assignment, you will read the Koch essay that I had published in Universitas and which deals with aspects of liberal education, as Mark Van Doren saw it. I’d then like you to write an essay in which you reflect on my presentation of Van Doren’s ideas as well as make references the Stafford and Frye essays. Again, see more details about the writing assignment below under “Assignments.”

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Click the “Paragraph Fragging” link in the Assignment 7 folder to see the video on how to fragment (or ‘frag’) a paragraph to analyze how the writer observes (or not) PRE for Paragraphs.

Assignments

Assignment #1: Analysis of a paragraph for PRE (Part 1) (35 points) Type your responses to this assignment using a word processing program and save as a file. If you are using a word processing program other than Microsoft Word, then please save the file as Rich Text Format. Submit as a file attachment.

Click the “Paragraph Analysis for Assgt 7” link in the Assignment 7 folder to access this activity. You will be asked to ‘frag’ a paragraph as well as analyze the paragraph for its observance of paragraph and sentence PRE. You then put your observations and conclusions into an explanation of the PRE features of the Paragraph PRE. [You will hand in Steps 1 to 4 and then complete Steps 5 to 8 when you submit Assignment 8.] Down load as a Word file and type in answers as instructed. Save and submit.

Koch Response (50 points)

Type your responses to this assignment using a word processing program and save as a file. If you are using a word processing program other than Microsoft Word, then please save the file as Rich Text Format. Submit the file as an attachment.

Write a 700 word response to this question: How will the ideas presented in the Koch essay likely change your study habits and approach to college courses?

Treat this essay as a Summary Essay for the past three Assignments. In your answer, quote a sentence from Frye and one from Stafford. Also quote one sentence from the Koch essay. BUT NOTE: don’t quote a statement from Van Doren that Koch uses. Instead quote a sentence that Koch wrote. As you’ve done for the other responses, use a tagline for each quotation and put the tagline in a different place with each quotation.

In the final draft, each quotation must be a stand-alone sentence (don’t add your own wording before the quote or after it) and the tagline is in a different place for each quotation. You can consult p. 221- 225 for examples of tagline placement and punctuation as well as the worksheet on quotes you did.

1. Your Works Cited list will use the format explained on p. 218- 9.

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2. That is, consider the textbook to be an anthology, so you have one bibliography for the book itself, as if it were an anthology and then you have a separate biblio for each of the essays you quote.

3. There is no TOS for this essay.