WEEK 4
Updated: Jan. 30, 2007
Continue reading some novels/short story collections from one of the following authors in preparation for your research paper:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Edith Wharton
Langston Hughes
Alice Walker
Walt Whitman
Sandra Cisneros
Readings/Assignments:
Library assignment: Go to the school's library and pick up their assignment: "Research Strategies Assignment." Send your answers to me via email. OR, click on the link here to do this via internet http://www.grossmont.edu/library/luci/
Lester: Chapter 4 (Gathering
Data in the Library) p. 56-76
Post the three most important things you learned. ("Post" means both
on the web board and in an email to me, along with the rest of the assignment.)
Kirszner: p. 37-49 (Chapter 2, "Arrangement")
Email the following work to me. Embed your work in your email message. Do NOT send attachments. Keep it short and concise. See Week 3 for a review on how to send an email.
p. 46, Exercise 3 (re text essay, underline the thesis, then determine how it's supported
in the body paragraphs.)
p. 47-49, ( "Constructing a Formal Outline"). Write an outline for one of
the topics listed below. Keep in short and concise. Follow the sample on page
48.
Use one of the following topics:
* latch-key children
* working teenagers
* violence in the schools
* health care
Sample outline:
http://www.lavc.cc.ca.us/Library/outline.htm