10/08/14 Session

Freshman Composition

To Turn In Now

Make a packet and staple together the the following:

•Final Draft of Descriptive Essay (on top)

•Your painting or photograph

•A short paragraph describing what changes you made based on peer review

•Your peer review rubric

•Your rough draft

•Your brainstorming sheet

What to Expect Today

• Pass out Gradesheets and Graded Assignments

• Take Quiz on 75 Readings Plus Readings

• Review Guidelines for Creating a Works Cited Page

• Conduct Practice Exercise on Works Cited Page (pairs)

• Discuss Characteristics of Definition Essay

• Pass out Assignment Sheet for Definition Essay

• Review Sample of Definition Essay

• Brainstorm – Prewriting Exercise on Definition Assignment

Works Cited Page

MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format

• Purpose –to give readers a complete bibliographical entry for each source used in an essay. This complete bibliographical entry will allow the readers to go and find the exact source (s) used in the paper.

Connection between Parenthetical citations and Works Cited Page

• There is a direct connection between parenthetical citations and Works Cited Page entries exists. To find this connection, look at what piece of information is listed in the parenthetical citation and the same piece of information in the bibliographical entry on the Works Cited page.

Example of connectionA direct quote in an essay may appear as follows: “I love English” (Williams 25).  Then, the entry for this source looks like this on the Works Cited page: Williams, Topeka. English. West Memphis: MSCC Publishing, 2004.

MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format

• Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper.

• Label the page Works Cited and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.

• Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.

• Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.

MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format

• Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc, but do not capitalize articles (the, an), prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle: Gone with the Wind, The Art of War, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.

• Entries are listed alphabetically by the author's last name (or, for entire edited collections, editor names). Author names are written last name first; middle names or middle initials follow the first name:

Burke, Kenneth

Levy, David M.

Wallace, David Foster

How Do I Document Online Sources?

n.d. = no date

N.p. = no publisher

Example

How About Documenting the Source?

My source is from the internet– What do I do?

How About Documenting Internet Sources?

My source is from the internet– What do I do?

“Johnny Depp.” The Internet Movie Database. IMDb.com, Inc, 2014. Web. 01 Oct. 2014. http://www.imdb.com/.

No author so start with name of article

Resources

Little Seagull Handout – MLA section Has rules and guidelines to followHas sample internal -citations

http://www.citationmachine.net/Citation Machine

Resources – Online Citation Generators

http://www.easybib.com/mla-format/website-citationEasy Bib

http://www.biography.com/#!/people/winston-churchill-9248164

Resources – Online Citation Generators

MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format

Resources

• Little Seagull Handout – MLA section • Has rules and guidelines to follow

• Has a sample Works Cited Page you can use as a model

In pairs, complete Works Cited Practice Exercise

Definition Essay

Definition Essay Explained

• The definition essay explains the meaning of a word or a concept or a term. The purpose of the definition essay is to help the reader understand the meaning of an unfamiliar term or clarify the meaning of an abstract or vague term.

Examples: A definition essay may try and define . . . • the meaning of an abstract concept, like love; • the true meaning and importance of honesty; • how the meaning of family goes deeper than just your

blood relatives.

A Definition Essay

A Definition Essay

A definition essay attempts to define a specific term. • tries to pin down the meaning of a specific word, or define an abstract

concept. • goes deeper than a simple dictionary definition

Examples in 75 Readings Plus• “What is Poverty?”

• “The Green-Eyed Monster: Envy is Nothing to Be Jealous Of”

• “The Company Man”

Example 1: The Company Man

The Company Man

• Perfect Type A personality• “heart attack natural”• Workaholic

• Worked 6 days a week (5 of them until 8pm or 9 pm at night)

• Ate at his desk instead of going out• When not working was worrying about work• Worked like “the Important People”• No outside interests- no extracurricular activities

The Company Man

• Overweight• Nervous• Had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty,

and most of them liked him most of the time• Disconnected from family due to focus on work (His

kids did not know him, his wife “gave up trying to compete with work years ago”)

Phil’s Company’s Core Values

"Who's been working the hardest?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJCdCXFslY

Phil’s Company’s Core Values

• You should have absolute commitment to work • Your family life is a distraction from the grand corporate

scheme • Hard work and long hours are required to move upward in

company• He who works the hardest wins! (the corporate reward)

Current American Work Culture- Classical Approach to Organizations

• Machine metaphor – workers are “cogs of the machine and cogs are standardized and interchangeable”

• Priority – Get the Job Done at all costs -Individuals don’t matter

• Centralized power (communication from top-down)• Encourages and rewards long hours at the office• Employees encouraged to labor strictly for the goals

of the organization rather than their individual intersts

Down Side of Workaholic Culture

What is the down side of a workaholic culture?

Down Side of Workaholic Culture

• Physical Problems (hypertension, heart attacks, headaches)

• Psychological problems (anxiety, isolation, stress, depression)

• Lack of close relationships with family and friends• Message to children: Work is more important than

family. Serve as role models to them and children repeat the workaholic cycle

Down Side of Workaholic Culture

Workaholic Cultures

• Japanese rank #1 in # of hours worked per year. Normal for Japanese workers to work from early morning to after nine pm plus weekends.

• Average South Korean routinely works 2,390 hours per year – 34% more than average American works

Alternative Work Cultures

• Americans work 9 full weeks (350 hours) longer than West Europeans do and paid vacation days across Western Europe are well above the U.S.

• French have a 35 hour work week• Many companies are now focusing on work/life

balance – more flexible hours, generous paid time off, family-friendly work environment

Example 2: Poverty

What is Poverty?

Prewriting Prompts (Before you read the essay on Poverty)•Define YOUR personal definition and description of poverty. (5 sentences)•My personal experience with poverty is….. (complete sentence)•I believe people who live in poverty are………(complete sentence)

What is Poverty?

Read “What is Poverty?’ by Jo Goodwin Parker

Answer:

•How does Jo Goodwin Parker define poverty? At least 5 sentences – give examples from the text.

•Did any details about living in poverty surprise you? If so, what surprised you? If not, why not?

•Read the last paragraph of the essay. Ms. Parker says “I have come out of my despair to tell you this. Remember I did not come from another place or another time.” What is her purpose is writing this essay, according to the final paragraph?

•Has your understanding of poverty or those who live in poverty changed in any way after reading this essay? If so, describe how. If not, why not?

For comparison – Read “Who’s poor in America? 50 years into the ‘War on Poverty,’ a data portrait”

Answer questions:

•Compare the personal experience of Jo Parker’s experience of poverty with the Facts and Statistics in this Pew Research Center article.

•How has poverty changed from 1971 to 2014?

• If Ms. Parker was writing this essay in 2012, do you think her experience would be the same or different than 1971? Why?

Assignment

• Pass out assignment sheet and review criteria• You will be doing an extended definition essay on

the meaning of the word “courage”, using examples from your own research on the term, your own life, and the dictionary.

Definition Essay

• To begin, use resources to begin pre-writing your Definition essay on Courage

Readings Next Week

75 Readings Plus

•Definition•“Definition” pg 114-114

•Jo Goodwin Parker’s “What is Poverty”

•Gloria Naylor “Meanings of a Word”

•Joseph Epstein “The Green-Eyed Monster: Envy is Nothing to Be Jealous Of”

Assignments Due Next Week

• Be prepared for 75 Readings Plus Response Quiz

• Bring in Final Essay #3 Definition Essay with Prewriting Sheets Completed