Academic Honesty Survey Student Course Evaluations

1. Academic Honesty SurveyStudent Course Evaluations Final writing assignments will not be accepted late without medical documentation.

2. Final Assignment and Exam Your final writing assignment is due by noon on Friday, May 22 in the drop box for EN 2910 located in 347 Stong. The final exam is scheduled to begin at 3:30 on Sunday, May 24 in rooms E and F in Curtis Lecture Halls. You have two hours to complete the exam.

3. Final Exam Format You are responsible for having read and taken lecture notes for: Shakespeare, Jonson, Rowlandson, Franklin, Shelley, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Wharton, Jacobs, Whitman, Gilman, Joyce, Beckett, Faulkner, Ellison, O’Connor and Baldwin. You should certainly read the other authors, but you won’t be responsible for them during the exam.

4. The first section tests your reading comprehension. It’s not enough to rely only on lecture notes. The second tests your understanding of the elements of style. The third consists of quote identification. You’ll be asked to cite the title, author, speaker/character if there is one, and to explain the quote’s significance. Quotes are taken from lecture slides.

5. Reading comprehension What musician does Sonny idolize? Who killed Justine in Frankenstein? What food makes up the bulk of Bartleby’s diet? What does Lenehan get from the servant girl in “The Two Gallants”? Describe Belacqua Shuah’s schedule for the day? Where does Cordelia go once Lear casts her in exile?

6. How Fiction Works by James Wood “Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, whereas literature teaches us to notice—to notice the way my mother, say often wipes her mouth before she kisses me; the drilling sound of a London cab when its diesel engines is flabbily idling; the way old leather jackets have white lines in them like the striations of fat in pieces of meat; the way a baby’s arms are so fat that they seem tied with string.”

7. “Metaphor is analogous to fiction, because it floats a rival reality. It is the entire imaginative process in one move. If I compare the slates on roof to an armadillo’s back or [...] the bald patch on the top of my head to a crop circle [...], I am asking you to do what Conrad said fiction should make you do—see.I am asking you to imagine another dimension, to picture a likeness.”

8. Elements of Style equals all the collective choices an author makes about how to present her/his ideas in prose including diction (word choice), syntax (sentence structure), characterization, theme, humour, tone, epiphany/moment of grace as well as: Narrative structure: linear vs. foreshadowing or flashback which produce a non linear structure.

9. Point of View/Narrative Mode Single or multiple narrators; epistolary/letter form; first person (“I”); second person (“You); third person objective (the fly on the wall); third person subjective (often an unreliable narrator); third person omniscient (narrator knows all about events and characters’ thoughts, motivations); third person limited (often referred to as stream of consciousness).

10. Figurative language metaphor simile imagery personification alliteration/assonance onomatopoeia irony allusion allegory anaphora apocope aphaersis enallage/metaplasmus asyndeton/polysyndeton hyperbole apostrophe antithesis symbolism

11. “In the centre of the day, tossed among the shoal of travelling sardines in a coleopter with a big white carapace, a chicken with a long, featherless neck suddenly harangued one, a peace-abiding one, of their number, and its parlance, moist with protest, was unfolded upon the airs.”

12. “On the platform, plaplapla, of a bus, chuff chuffchuff, which was an S (and singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest), it was about noon, ding dang dong, ding dang dong, a ridiculous ephebus, poof poof, who had one of those hate, pooh, suddenly turned (twirl twirl)on his neighbour angrily, grrhgrrh, and said hmhm: “You are purposely jostling me, Sir,” Ha ha. Whereupon phfftt, he threw himself on to a free seat and sat down, plonk.”

13. “O platinum-nibbed stylograph, let thy smooth and rapid course trace on this single-sided calendar paper those alphabetic glyphs which shall transmit to men of sparkling spectacles the narcissistic tale of a double encounter of omnibusilistic cause. Proud courser of my dreams, faithful camel of my literary exploits, lissome fountain of words counted, weighed and chosen . . .”

14. “The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the cup, the wine of astonishment, like a sweeping rain that leaveth no food, did the Lord prepare to be my portion. Affliction I wanted and affliction I had, full measure.”

15. “It must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt.”

16. “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” “She was ‘as easy as an old shoe’– a shoe that too many feet had worn.”

17. “to humor him in his strange willfulness will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience.”

18. In the scientific style, you will formulate an argument about one author’s writing style with an interesting thesis based on some level of controversy.  Choose an author from the last portion of the reading list beginning with James Joyce through to David Sedaris.  You will need to demonstrate that you have mastered the correct way to cite borrowed sources by using two articles in your argument.

19. The sources that you cite must come from a reputable academic journal, not from say Rollingstone.  You can access Project Muse and JSTOR journal databases through your university library account.  The sources are to be used to support your argument and not to eclipse it.  Use attributive tags to create strong paraphrases which distinguish the borrowed ideas and words from your own.   

20.  In the opaque style, you will attempt to imitate the writing style of Joyce, Beckett, Faulkner, Ellison, O’Connor, Baldwin, Thompson or Sedaris.  Create an alternate scenario for the characters one author develops and fashion together a narrative in 7-10 pages.  You will need to pay attention all the stylistic choices involved in order to craft an imitation of an author’s style.

21. Citation • the act of citing or quoting a reference to an authority or a precedent. A means to differentiate your original work from borrowed words and ideas. • You cannot discuss a text without formally citing it. Offering a plot summary is insufficient. • If you have a works cited page you must actually attribute the material in the body of your essay.

22. You must attribute all borrowed material in order to avoid plagiarism and maintain academic integrity. • When I read your essays I assume that every word and idea is yours unless you tell me otherwise by including a paraphrase, quotation or summary which cites another author.

23. When you do research, what you learn does not simply become yours just because you found it. Always cite your sources. Intellectual integrity depends upon it. • The first time that you use a source, try to identify the author and title, from then on, you can refer to the author by last name. • Strive to introduce borrowed material with an attributive tag rather than burying the author at the end of the sentence in parentheses.

24. Paraphrase A paraphrase demonstrates that you have understood the argument; it allows you to clearly signal to your audience that you are capable of synthesizing other positions among your own. A paraphrase helps you to avoid plagiarism. Using a paraphrase allows you to refrain from an over-reliance on placing quotations in your compositions.

25. Attributive tags Accept, admit, affirm, analyze, argue, assert, believe, cite, compare, conclude, contradict, criticize, declare, deduce, defend, demonstrate, deny, disprove, dispute, doubt, endorse, examine, explain, hint, ignore, illustrate, imply, include, infer, inquire, insist, interpret, justify, liken, mention, note, oppose, ponder, prove, purport, question, reason, rebut, recommend, refuse, refute, report

26. restrict, reveal, select, state, stress, submit, suggest, support, suppose, surmise, validate, verify, wonder. Remember that you have to change the original diction and syntax with your own in order to craft a true paraphrase. Don’t add or omit meaning to the original source.

27. “Dante and the Lobster” begins Beckett’s meditation on the arbitrary nature of suffering (Kiberd). Declan Kiberd isolates Beckett’s “Dante and the Lobster” as the genesis of the author’s career-long exploration into the arbitrary nature of suffering (Inventing Ireland 454).

28. Tate wrote that “Good Country People “is without exception the most terrible and powerful story of Maimed Souls I have ever read” (Gooch). Brad Gooch discloses in his recently released biography of O’Connor that her friend Allen Tate believed the story to be “without exception the most terrible and powerful story of Maimed Souls I have ever read” (Flannery 255).

29. Your works cited page contains the full publication information for your reader, so in the body of the text you can keep references brief. Page numbers are required for quotes, but are otherwise not always necessary unless you are citing a large work or more than one work from an author.

30. Be Creative and Inventive Wilde reminds us that in manners of critical writing that “attitude is everything.” For O’Connor, style is the “manners and mystery” to be unlocked on the page. Lanham advises us to make “manner the matter” Reach beyond obvious observations. So what? Avoid repetition in diction and syntax.

31. Don’t try and bend the text to fit your thesis or analysis. You cannot choose to ignore what contradicts or disproves your idea. Refrain from using long block quotes or from quoting too much. Don’t let quotes hang without always explaining why you’ve used them and why they are important.