Day 7
English 104, Section 1345
For Today:
7. M 4/7 READ: Barnet & Beadau: Chapter 7, Using Sources (267-313) Also from
class web site: Barbara Tuchman: This is the End of the World: The Black
Death.
TURN IN: Tentative thesis/research proposal AND REVISED ESSAY.
LIBRARY WORKSHOP DUE.
FOCUS: Collecting and vetting source material for an essay. Widening the
understanding of the context of your argument.
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Attendance.
Talk about research steps and points again:
o All steps must be completed to get points for any of the steps.
o If turned in on time, you can resubmit a step up to three times.
o Mention Writing Plan in Hacker on page 331.
o MLA tab and index of in-text citation models and work cited models.
Review Barnet & Bedau Chapter Seven.
o The big treasure hunt!
Quiz on Chapter Seven. (Hand back papers.)
Group work: beta thesis statement.
o Chose a text to analyze.
o Write a beta thesis statement. Rewrite it into a question.
o Surmise how you will find research material that will support your thesis.
Test drive the GCC Library data bases.
Plug a quote into a passage, cite it, and create a citation in the Work Cited page.
Sentence Workshop.
Next Class:
(SPRING BREAK • April 14 Through April 19 • No Class)
8. M 4/20
READ: Graham Huggan: Vampires, Again.
TURN IN: Revised thesis and research proposal.
FOCUS: Claim, grounds, warrants, deduction, induction, fallacies.
TURN IN: Revised thesis and research proposal.
FOCUS: Claim, grounds, warrants, deduction, induction, fallacies.
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Research paper: The paper must be thesis-based argument of no less than 2000 words,
written in accordance with MLA standards. Sources must be documented in a Work
Cited page. All steps must be completed if any of the steps are to count: 1) thesis
statement, 2) library workshop, 3) annotated bibliography 4), outline, 5) first draft and 6)
second draft.
Research Prompt: You must choose an outside text or texts—movie, novel, non-fiction
text, TV episode or series, video game—have it approved by the instructor, and formulate
a specific critical argument analyzing the text, using criteria from the essays we’ve read
in class so far, or from those we will read, or from an essay that you’ve discovered
yourself and that the instructor has approved of. Areas of interest will include:
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The shift from folklore to corporate mass entertainment.
The evolution of the zombie or vampire genre over time.
The possible cultural consequences of violence portrayed in these genres.
The implications and uses of this trope in modern society.
Other area as approved by the instructor.
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Her eyes are not quite right, she lunges at her father’s neck and tears away his carotid
artery.
Her eyes are not quite right, she lunges at her father’s neck and tears away his carotid
artery.
Zombie films are highly known for its nature in violence, which can be seen in the heavy
usage of firearms throughout the entire film.
Zombie films are highly known for its nature in violence, which can be seen in the heavy
usage of firearms throughout the entire film.
Various weapons are used in zombie movies, but I don’t believe they encourage us to go
out and purchase a gun.
Various weapons are used in zombie movies, but I don’t believe they encourage us to go
out and purchase a gun.
To say that guns are being advertised is the same as saying knives and shovels and other
objects are being advertised as well because they are used in movies in a negative way
too. Shovels are sown burying people. Does this mean we can not show shovels without
being accused of “advertising violence and weapons”? Also, many scenes have knives
whether in the kitchen or not but this does not mean that knives apposes any more of a
threat than we already know they do.
To say that guns are being advertised is the same as saying knives and shovels and other
objects are being advertised as well because they are used in movies in a negative way
too. Shovels are sown burying people. Does this mean we can not show shovels without
being accused of “advertising violence and weapons”? Also, many scenes have knives
whether in the kitchen or not but this does not mean that knives apposes any more of a
threat than we already know they do.
In The Walking Dead they are constantly stabbing people in the head. (Walking)
ZombieGoBoom recommends the shovel as a “perfect zombie killing tool.” (Zombie)
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