- First topic
- Second topic
- Third topic
- Annotated Bibliography
Your topic for each essay will be based on a particular idea that you identify in a reading assignment as inspiring, interesting, problematic, etc., something the author writes that gets your mind moving. This is your starting point. From there, you will need to develop your own idea, based on first-hand experience, that extends, challenges, or applies that idea to something else. Take it in a new direction that shows your unique concern and investment.
The research topic should be based on one of your first three papers. You can go in a new direction or extend in the same direction, but your discussion should still be grounded in first-hand experience. The main difference will be that you include the ideas and insights of other authors in your discussion. Your own voice is still the one that matters most, but your paper will open up other points of view as well, in cooperation with your own. You need to use FIVE outside sources. And those sources need to be journal articles, book chapters, or long magazine articles.
The coolest thing is that you can write all of your essays in Google Drive, an online writing and storage tool. Google Drive allows you to organize your documents in folders and share those folders with anyone else who has a Google Drive account.
Each of you will store your essays in a folder ("LastName.FirstName.1101H-Writing.F13") that you share with me; please grant me "edit" privileges so that I have constant access to the documents in the folder. You will also share individual documents with other select students, who will make suggestions and write responses to your work. The essays will be typed using standard MLA formatting. You can use this template.
