English 100 Essay 1 (Describe Apartment) PDF

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Essay #1: Observing the Ordinary & Writing Out of the Ordinary WHAT YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT Describe the apartment of a person who:  Has a Type-A personality  Collects modern-art glass sculptures  Lives on gourmet take-out food  Is an accountant  Enjoys Broadway musicals (But do read on for the details…..)+ Requirements:  Your essay should integrate ALL of the above qualities in a creative way. If you wish, you may supplement to these qualities to achieve an exception final creation.  MLA format (See sample paper format in the Handbook p. 226.)  2 complete pages  Amazing title  Creativity: effectively use the Adios “Freighting” technique at least two times and the “Telescoping” technique at least once in your essay. Apply the techniques to critical narrative sentences in the essay. The freighting and telescoping sentences must be integrated into your writing in a ways that are noticed for their stylistic uniqueness and not their awkwardness.  Sound sentence structure with attention to transitions, varied lengths, and varied use of clauses.  Run-on and fragment free. NOTE: You should not use any outside sources for this essay. USE YOUR TEXTBOOK RESOURCES! Please refer to Adios p.16-22 for an explanation and examples of “Freighting” and p.23-28 for an explanation and examples of “Telescoping”. Refer to pages 509-417 in the Handbook if you have questions about run-ons or sentence fragments. PREPARATION Related Readings  “The Company Man” Ellen Goodman Related Readings in handouts/in-class examples:  “My Bug” (Student Paper)  English 100 student paper PRE-WRITING: THINKING AND BRAINSTORMING Use one of the brainstorming methods that were suggested in class to generate possible ideas for the essay. Consider using a combination of brainstorming methods. For example, begin with freewriting to see which direction you might take with the essay. Next, you can ask questions such as “What are signs of a type-A personality?” It may also be helpful to make an exhaustive list of the apartment’s physical features. A writer’s instinct is to include all visually obvious details; a good writer also notes the qualities that go beyond the obvious, include the subtle, often neglected, qualities. Thus, a good paper does not attempt to create a collage of every miniscule detail about the chosen object. Be selective with the details you choose to include and how you choose to include them. SUGGESTIONS  Choose apartment features with descriptive potential as well as story-telling potential.  Be creative in how you present the apartment to your reader.

CHALLENGES  To make the apartment and the owner’s lifestyle come to life—to pop out of the page with your use of style and creative sentence patterns.  With a unique perspective, you should startle, shock, surprise or even tease the reader. SUGGESTED TIMELINE 2/2 Essay #1 assigned 2/4 Complete brainstorming 2/6 Organize the essay by this date 2/7 Complete introduction by this date 2/14 Complete body paragraphs by this date 2/17 Complete conclusion by this date 2/20 Final revising, editing, proofreading for Peer Review (2/21) 2/22 Final revising, editing, proofreading for Instructor Review with consideration of Peer Review suggestions (2/23); Submit to Turnintin.com; print hard copy to submit to professor 2/23 Bring final draft, hard copy to class DUE DATES Prewriting (Freewriting, Braintstorming, Questioning) To be completed on your own by February 4, 2017 1st Draft Due Date (Drafting) February 21, 2017, (Peer Review 10 points) On this day, we will be exchanging complete rough drafts (typed hard copies OR from laptop/PC, to the last line of page two!) in order to provide suggestions for improvement. A guide to help you evaluate your peer’s work will be provided, and written commentary in the form of short response paragraphs will be required for credit. The Peer Review may be done only on the date set on the syllabus. Note: Students who do not have a complete draft for the peer review may still participate in class on this day (if time permits) for partial credit (5 points) by reviewing another student’s work. Students who arrive to class during the peer review (late) will not be allowed to complete a peer review. Please arrive to class having printed your essay if you wish to participate with a hard copy. There will be no time to print during class. 2nd Draft Due Date (Revising, Editing, Proofreading) February 23, 2017, (Instructor Review 100 points) On this day, bring a hard copy of Essay #1. The draft cannot be the one you used for the Peer Review. Underline and label (by hand) where you have used “Freighting” and “Telescoping”. LATE ESSAYS, ESSAYS TURNED IN VIA EMAIL OR MY MAILBOX WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! February 23, 2017, (Turnitin.com posting) (Please post your essay prior to the class start time, or there will be a 10-point deduction on the final grade of the essay.) Please use the codes provided on syllabus to post your paper on Turnitin.com. 3rd Draft Due “Rewrite” (Revising, Editing, Proofreading) Due date will be determined upon grading papers. (5 points)

The following has been taken from Mark Connelly’s textbook The Sundance Writer (Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2007) pages 271271.

STUDENT PAPER My Bug My father was in first grade when my Bug rolled off an assembly line in West Germany thirty-eight years ago. I have no idea what its original color was, but it has gone from gray to rust to black to cream to rust during my time. My ’69 VW is not just a car but a family artifact. My grandfather bought it in May 1969 as a second car for his wife. She drove it along the Jersey shore selling real estate for six years. It followed the family West to San Francisco in 1975. My uncle then got the car and drove it to college in New Mexico. After graduating and getting a new car, he gave it to my dad who was just learning how to drive. By now, the car bore the tattoos of college bumper stickers, bent fenders, and rusted chrome. My dad had the car painted a light cream and invested in a new transmission. During a ski trip his freshman year, the Bug skidded off an icy mountain road in Colorado and rolled over. He had the dents pounded out and the car painted gray. It took my parents on their honeymoon. Two years later, the battered Bug carried me home from the hospital. After my parents bought a van, the Bug was relegated to being a backup vehicle. When my mom got a new car, the Bug was retired to the garage. Now it is mine. The fenders, though repainted, still bear the shallow depressions from the Colorado rollover. The windshield is pitted from stones that flew off a speeding gravel truck that nearly ran me off the road in Elko, Nevada, last year. The door handles are replacements I found on E-bay. The car seats are patched with tape. Rust holes in the floor have been covered with cookie sheets. The dashboard sports the compass my mother glued on ten years ago so she would not get lost taking me to soccer games. The glove compartment is jammed with rumpled maps, and snapshots from decades of family vacations and road trips. My Bug is not the most glamorous vehicle in the college parking lot, but it has to be the most loved. It looks like a rolling homeless shelter to many. But to me it is a mobile family album. I love every ding and dent....