Revising Your Analysis
As you continue to revise your analysis, review “The Strange Fruit of Sosnowiec” and consider the elements of the essay that we examined in class on Monday: the thesis, the examples of connections and separations that I offer as support for my thesis, and conclusion strategies that I employ in the final paragraph.
Additional Citations
You are not required to cite any text other than the essay, essay excerpt, or chapter excerpt that serves as your subject, but if you include any ideas from my class notes, you should name me in sentence and include a parenthetical citation and a work cited entry for the blog post in which the idea appears. In class on Monday, I distributed a handout with samples of additional citations and am including them here as well:
Example
Dr. Jane Lucas observes that “choosing not to divide the first paragraph creates an unbroken movement that parallels the unbroken downward flight of his [Junod’s] subject, the Falling Man” (par. 3).
Work Cited
Lucas, Jane. “ENG 1103: Tom Junod’s ‘The Falling Man.’” Jane Lucas, 19 Feb. 2024, https://janelucas.com/2024/02/19/eng-1103-tom-junods-the-falling-man.
The example above includes the parenthetical citation (par.3) because the source, the February 19 blog post, is an unpaginated source.
Work cited entries for the blog posts that include notes on the texts we have studied are listed below.
Sample Works Cited Entries
Lucas, Jane. “ENG 1103: A Second Look at Sedaris and a First Glimpse of Heller.” Jane Lucas, 22 Jan. 2024, https://janelucas.com/2024/01/22/eng-1103-a-second-look-at-sedaris-and-a-first-glimpse-of-keller-2.
—. “ENG 1103: Donald Barthelme’s ‘The School.’” Jane Lucas, 20 Feb. 2024, https://janelucas.com/2024/02/20/eng-1103-donald-barthelemes-the-school.
—. “ENG 1103: Field Notes and Peer Responses.” Jane Lucas, 13 Feb. 2004, https://janelucas.com/2024/02/13/eng-1103-field-notes-and-peer-responses.
—. “ENG 1103: ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’” Jane Lucas, 15 Jan. 2024, https://janelucas.com/2024/01/15/eng-1103-letter-from-birmingham-jail-2.
—. “ENG 1103: ‘Me Talk Pretty One Day.’” Jane Lucas, 17 Jan. 2024, https://janelucas.com/2024/01/17/eng-1103-me-talk-pretty-one-day.
—. “ENG 1103: Tom Junod’s ‘The Falling Man.’” Jane Lucas, 19 Feb. 2024, https://janelucas.com/2024/02/19/eng-1103-tom-junods-the-falling-man.
Planning for the Midterm Reflection
In class on Wednesday, you will plan and compose a midterm reflection that documents your work in the first half of the semester, focusing on your analysis and one or two other assignments or aspects of the course that have contributed to your development as a writer and a student. In addition to reflecting on your analysis, you may reflect on one or two of the following:
- Keeping a journal
- Completing Check, Please! assignments
- Studying one of the readings examined class, including “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” “The Day that Language Came into My Life,” “Back Story” (from The Blind Side), “The Falling Man,” “The School,” the sample literacy narrative (“A Bridge to Words”), or the sample analysis “The Strange Fruit of Sosnowiec”
- Writing for an online audience beyond the classroom/creating and maintaining a WordPress blog
- Collaborating with your classmates on in-class writing assignments
- Playing Scrabble/collaborating with your teammates on Wordplay Day
- Writing longhand
- Limiting screen time
You will be required to include a relevant quotation from Writing Analytically. To prepare for that element of the reflection, review the sections of the textbook listed below, and select a relevant sentence, clause, or phrase to quote.
Rosenwasser, David and Jill Stephen. “Analysis and Argument.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2019. pp. 7-8.
—. “Analysis and Everyday Life: More Than Breaking a Subject into Its Parts.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2024. pp. 6-7.
—. “Integrating Quotations into Your Paper.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2019. pp. 343-46.
—. “The Idea of the Paragraph.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2019. pp. 307-313.
Next Up
In class on Wednesday, you will compose your midterm reflection. (See the notes above.) Wednesday, March 6 (before class) is also the due date for your analysis; the hard deadline is Friday, March 8 (before class). Review the assignment submission requirements, and be sure to post your analysis both as a Word or PDF file to Blackboard and as a blog entry on your WordPress site.
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