Last Paper--guidelines and due dates, etc.

English—Last Formal Essay —McFarland—Summer—2013

For this final paper, you will be asked to build an argument/discussion in which you consider your attitudes/philosophy in light of the concept of Education. You have had a chance to explore your point of view about Education in series of blog posts. Most of the posts have been in response to a written prompt or video, though some posts are a response to a prompt that you came up with.

Now you are being asked to go back and read through and think about your posts—you may also want to re-look at the video prompts—and see if you can begin to shape a coherent discussion that links these different posts into a single essay that situates you inside of Education—what value does it have for you, what challenges do you face, what strategies do you employ. The paper as well will be exploring your POV about Education itself—its value, its challenges, its role in our society.

As you build this essay you will be drawing from 3 sources of writing: 1) the blog posts you have already created…2) new writing you do to flesh out your thesis…3) transitional phrases and paragraphs you create to stitch together your paper’s flow/argument.

You will want to really think about how you want to organize the paper. You have a LOT of material to draw from if you have been doing all the posts and writing a lot inside each post.

You must integrate Into The Wild into this paper; quotes from the book need to be included in your paper, as well as a consideration of concepts that are found in the book.

You must average a minimum of 3 short quotes per page. You should include more than one quote per paragraph whenever possible. Quote length in a paper of this length should be no more than 1-2 lines. Remember that the video prompts you have watched are a great source of quote support.

The essay’s page minimum is 7 full pages…(BNDJTM…)

Paragraph topic sentences should start with concepts. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, which are taken from the questions/prompts that you have been exploring.

The paper is due Monday, August 12th. First draft is due August 7th.  Best of Luck!!

You will be emailing me the paper in a Word doc format. It should look like a regular essay:

smcfarland@chabotcollege.edu

mcsean10@hotmail.com

Send paper to both addresses—attach the paper but also copy and paste it into the body of each email,,,just in case the attachments don’t open. Thx!

You should also put your paper in a post in your blog. (It should be posted the same day the final paper is due to me via email.) Doing this will give you a lot of freedom to really bring the paper to life. You can have words or phrases in the paper be linked to some place on the Internet. For example, you can be talking about Chris McCandless and link to a picture of him. You can link to education statistics or charts, or to videos that relate to your point you are making. You can link to an article that you pulled a quote from. You can divide up sections of the paper with pictures/quotes/etc. There are limitless possibilities.

You will get three grades on the final paper.

1. Content 2. Grammar 3. Blog post presentation