Harvard Extension School Expo E-25; Section 8 (7:45PM-9:45PM)

1. Harvard Extension SchoolExpo E-25; Section 8 (7:45PM-9:45PM) Instructor: Julie Anne McNary Please check your Elluminate Audio Wizard YOU WILL NEED YOUR INTRO TO FICTION TEXTBOOK FOR THIS SESSION!! We will begin at 7:45PM.

2. Expository Writing E25: Introduction to Academic Writing and Critical ReadingAnalyzing the Short Story Online WebConference Via Elluminate SoftwareWebsite: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k64023Elluminate Room:https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007009&password=M.3163A85F45E3980D9A1F3875B7EED6

3. Overview • Overview Comparison and Contrast – our textbook, pages 678-681 • Essay #2 – Comparison and Contrast Essay • Extended Class Discussion of the Assignment • In-class writing assignment – two stories • Re-Assignment of Exercises 2.1 and 2.2 (due Friday night, October 30): 2.1 Brainstorming and 2.2 Outline; plus one additional note: refining your thesis! • Early Release (for real this time!) so you can go work yourselves to the bone…or whatever.

4. Our Book and Chapters • ISBN #0-321-47583-6 • Chapters we’ve read so far: • 1: Reading a Story • 2. Point of View • 3. Character • 4. Setting • 5. Tone and Style • 6. Theme • 13. Writing about A Story • 7. Symbol • 8. Evaluating a Story • Re-assigned section in Writing about a Story, 678-681

5. A & P Teenage Wasteland How to Talk to a Hunter Sonny’s Blues Roman Fever The Girl on the Plane Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Until Gwen (new)*** Hills like White Elephants The Lottery Miss Brill Cathedral Rich Brother The Storm To Build A Fire The Greasy Lake A Pair of Tickets Lost in the Funhouse The Things They Carried Winter Dreams Everything That Rises Must Converge (new) Bigfoot Stole My Wife The Stories for Essay #2

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10. In Class Exercise 2.02 • Thirty-five minutes… • Read the following two stories: • Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/chopin.html • Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper • http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html • Find TWO similarities and TWO differences between these two stories. • Then, try to construct a MEANINGFUL thesis statement from that material to share with the class.

11. Important Tips for Essay #2 • Make sure that you have analyzed your material enough to construct a MEANINGFUL, INTEGRATED and COMPLEX thesis… • Avoid the “tennis ball approach,” i.e. simply bouncing back and forth constantly and repetitively, almost like hitting material back and forth over a net. • Concentrate on synergy, the 2+2=5 that will make your analysis striking and original.

12. REFNING YOUR THESIS & CONCLUSION • First, make sure to push your thesis into a more complex realm by moving beyond observational data gathering and into analysis. You will have gathered a lot of relevant observations, but you must move beyond these observations in order to construct a proper thesis. • THINK SYNERGY! • THINK “SO WHAT?” • Remember that your conclusion should both comment on and answer your thesis statement, and also open new vistas of thinking…

13. Body Paragraph Organization • Once again, beyond your thesis and conclusion, you must think very carefully about your body paragraphs – the building blocks of your essay. • Ideally, you will choose to organize your body paragraphs in one of two ways: a text-based organization, or a topic point-based organization. • See next slide

14. TWO SAMPLE BODY PARAGRAPH ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES • Body #1 – First Textual Similarity: • Text #1 • Text #2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above • Body #2 – Second Similarity: • Text #1 • Text #2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above • Body #3 – First Difference: • Text #1 • Text #2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above • Body #4 – Second Difference: • Text #1 • Text #2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above • Body #1 – First Topic Point: • Similarities between Texts 1 & 2 • Differences between Texts 1&2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above • Body #2 – Second Topic Point • Similarities between Texts 1 & 2 • Differences between Texts 1&2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above • Body #3 – Third Topic Point: • Similarities between Texts 1 & 2 • Differences between Texts 1&2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above • Body #4 – Fourth Topic Point: • Similarities between Texts 1 & 2 • Differences between Texts 1&2 • Analysis that synthesizes the above

15. Exercise 2.1 – Brainstorming, 10/30 • Expand on last week’s in-class exercise, or choose another one… • Include a list of several examples to compare and contrast – COLLECT YOUR DATA FIRST – ANALYZE THAT DATA, AND THEN CONSIDER YOUR ARGUMENT. • Consider if your examples are leading you toward a traditional comparison and contrast paper, or a keyhole (dominant lens) paper • Construct a loose introductory paragraph and thesis statement.

16. Exercise 2.2 – Outline, 10/30 • In the manner in which you constructed Exercise 1.3, write a detailed outline of your Essay #2 • Construct an introductory paragraph(s) in which you outline the source stories, and state your thesis • Outline each body paragraph in the manner we have laboriously discussed: topic sentence that states an analytical claim, evidence from the text, analysis thereof, transition to the next paragraph; • YOU MAY FOLLOW text by text format, or point by point – see How to Write a Comparative Analysis document on our website. • Construct a loose conclusion in which you open new vistas of analysis