Exam Schedule

MWF 1102 10-10:50: Wednesday, May 7, 8-10 a.m.

MWF 1102 11-11:50: Friday, May 2, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Review

REVIEW

1. William Faulkner a famous American author from Mississippi once wrote The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. (Eggleton 73)
2. I want to go home, I want to rock and roll.
3. Many American's got all up in Canada's grill.
4. According to Britney Spears dispensationalism theology refers "to the teachings of Dispensationalism, which addresses what many other scholars see as opposing theologies between the Old Testament and New Testament. It's name comes from the fact that the teaching has in view that biblical history is best understood in light of a series of dispensations, or separated time-periods, in the Bible.
5. The Plymouth careened through aunt Fanny's sunroom, out the kitchen, through her radish garden and into the little creek trickling away into the dark woods behind her bungalow which always were scary when I was a little tyke because I imagined there were ugly, malcontent trolls living in the rotten trees and I would have nightmares at night in her hot, stale-aired house.
6. Rhonda would of parachuted if her passport had not been destroyed by a chihuahua.
7. Although I am trying to get her a new one.
8. Were is the iguana?
9. I don't want to loose you, pumpkin.
10. The kick to his face knocked him to the sawdust covered floor; blood trickling down his chin.
11. Two out of three physicists agree that quantum mechanics is necessary to understand the behavior of systems at atomic length scales and smaller. {Don't treat this example like an exact quote.}
    
12. You need to park your hovercraft over their.

DEFINE:

1. comma splice
2. sentence fragment
3. run-on sentence

Essay 3 assignment

ENG 1102
SPRING 2008
Paul Guest
Essay #3
Persuasive Essay with Secondary Resources

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND

1. Your essay must have a clear, strong thesis statement. Your introduction must be clear and well-organized.
2. If your thesis statement doesn't answer the question, "What am I trying to prove?" then you probably have a weak thesis statement.
3. The Writing Center exists for your benefit.
4. Proofread. Proofread again. Repeat.
   

1. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers. The national age limit for driving should be 18.
2. Many claim that medical usage of marijuana is an effective treatment for ailments such as cancer, glaucoma, appetite loss due to AIDS. The federal government should legalize the medical usage of marijuana.
3. Stem-cell research may hold many possibilities for treatments and cures for diseases. The federal government should fully fund and encourage stem-cell research.
4. Despite the clouds of federal perjury charges and steroid allegations hanging over him, Barry Bonds belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

You may argue for or against the above statements.

Grammar errors such as run-on's, sentence fragments, comma splices, and so forth will be highly detrimental to your grade.

REQUIRED: AT LEAST 4 SECONDARY SOURCES. NONE OF THESE MAY BE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, DICTIONARY, OR OTHER REFERENCE BOOK.

Due: Monday, April 21st, start of class, stapled. No late work will be accepted. For Tue/Th class, due Thursday, April 24th.

Length: 1000 words

Response

Write a response to this editorial in yesterday's New York Times. Is Sheriff Joe a hero or unsettling maverick with too much power?

Begin your response with your clearly stated opinion, an explanation of or context for your opinion, followed by your reasons, which will form your body paragraphs. Use most of class for your writing.

It might look like this:

Sheriff Joe is a fame-hungry menace. The best of the American tradition has always been about welcoming others to our country. His antics cause fear, create social instability, and brand Arizona as a state of backwards xenophobes. He should be fired and forgotten.

Quiz

1. Five Philadelphia elementary schools replaced sodas with fruit juice, they scaled back snacks and banished candy. Handed out raffle tickets for wise food choices. They spent hours teaching kids, their parents and teachers about common since good nutrition.

2. Schools are ideal settings for programs that target childhood obesity the researchers noted. Children spend long hours each day at schools and eat lunch and often breakfast at school but school-based programs have had mixed results.

   The Philadelphia study put to the test a program developed by the Food Trust a local nonprofit which works to improve access to affordable, healthy food, ten schools enrolled in the government-funded study in 2002, and half made the changes.

   Sense then, many of the modifications have been carried out at most of Philadelphia's schools, according to Joan Nachmani, the district's director of nutrition education and one of the researchers. She said such studies help people "wake up and realize it can be done on a larger scale."

3. For the study, changes were made to the food in vending machines or the cafeteria in five of the schools, juice water and low-fat milk replaced sodas, snacks had to meet limits for fat salt and sugar. Students who ate healthy snacks got raffle tickets to win prizes such as bikes and jump ropes.
4. My favorite Michael Jackson song is Billie Jean.
5. I was afraid to loose the dogs from their restraints that night.
6. My name is Larry, I am awesome at what I do.
7. We walked home every night; thinking about Kansas.
8. Yogurt manufacturer Yoplait unveiled its new line of Texas-style yogurt Tuesday which they say is designed to satisfy even the hungriest man's voracious craving for acidified milk product.

   Open wide boys their's a new yogurt in town the company's press release read in part. After a long day of driving steers and drilling for oil, we know the only thing capable of satisfying your hunger is a whole mess of creamy yogurt with all the fixin's.

9. Yoplait representatives said that each 64-ounce container will feature the meanest grittiest and heartiest fruits, including rough-and-tumble hunks of peaches strawberries and bananas. In addition, every serving will reportedly contain enough rich and velvety vanilla flavor to kill a full-grown buffalo.

10. If I'd known, I would of bathed.
11. As everyone knows, a woman's place is in the home.
12. The crashed taxi blew up over their raining debris down the whole street.
13. It's your chose now said the chainsaw murderer.
14. Mr. Loaf writes, "I am currently incarcerated for an undetermined length of time" (Loaf 47).
15. Just days after the publication of Vindicated, his second book concerning the use of steroids in professional baseball, former steroid-using baseball player and current steroid-awareness advocate Jose Canseco has debuted La Anabolica, an opera concerning the use of steroids in professional baseball. "I've done books, interviews, public speaking appearances, improv, and theater-in-the-round on the theme of steroids, and I was looking for something fresh and new, " Canseco said from the stage of the Met. "I think my libretto—especially the climactic scene in which fair Don Giambi is tempted to use the magic golden steroids to defeat evil knights Die Rosensox and their enchanted beast Il Monsto Verde—is exactly what is needed to bring the message of steroids in baseball to a new audience." Critics have not been kind to La Anabolica, noting that "the lyrics mostly consist of the word 'steroids' chanted over and over" and that "the ending, which occurs as a steroid-enhanced fat lady sings, is doubly and almost impossibly clichéd."
16. Thinking about cheese.
17. Can I have a peace?
18. Langley stressed that besides being incredibly masculine and reminding men of wandering free on an open plain the Texas-style yogurt also contains a heaping helping of health benefits, including 300 percent of the recommended annual value of phosphorus twice the needed antioxidants, and enough vitamin A to throw a man 30 feet through the air.

In-class

Mock Essay Assignment

Choose 1 of the following topics to begin writing a persuasive essay. Your essay should be written like any other essay for this class: free of any grammatical or spelling errors, with a strong introduction that features a well-defined, focused thesis statement. The body paragraphs should each possess a topic sentence. Your conclusion should be strong.

1. American women should be allowed access to the 'morning after pill,' RU-486.
2. American women should not be allowed access to the 'morning after pill,' RU-486.
3. Girls should be allowed to join wrestling teams and wrestle in public school against male wrestlers.
4. Girls should not be allowed to join wrestling teams and wrestle in public school against male wrestlers.
5. The age at which American citizens are allowed to vote should be raised to 21.
6. The age at which American citizens are allowed to vote should be raised to 21.

Use the internet to quickly research your choice. I encourage you to seek my help and the help of your neighboring classmates.

Due, printed out, stapled, by end of class.

Essentials to Keep in Mind:

• An argument involves the process of establishing a claim and then proving it with the use of logical reasoning, examples, and research
• Capture the reader's interest with a title that employs a thought-provoking image or phrase. Avoid titles that are too general
• A good introduction introduces the reader to the topic and purpose of the paper; generates reader interest; and offers a plan for the following argument
• Key elements of a good introduction: personal anecdote; examples, real or hypothetical; question; provocative statistics; vivid image
• Your thesis statement answers the question, "What am I trying to prove?" It is not a factual statement but something you must prove
• Body paragraphs build upon the claims made in your introduction
• Each body paragraph must have a topic sentence
• Body paragraphs should be ordered in one of several ways: from general to specific information; most important to least important point; weakest claim to strongest claim
• Researched material can aid you in proving the claims of your argument and disproving oppositional claims
• Be sure to use your research to support the claims made in your topic sentences
  
• Your conclusion should reemphasize the main points made in your paper
• You may choose to reiterate a call to action or speculate on the future of your topic, when appropriate
• Avoid raising new claims in your conclusion

These are the standards by which I will grade your persuasive essays. The above information is like a blueprint or recipe for writing a good essay.