March 30, 2010 Archives

Assigned Text:

Darnton (Ch9)

Assigned Text:

Calvino (100-164)

If you have the paperback, read from "Looks down..." to "In a network..."
Exercise 3 is a three-page essay that demonstrates your ability to apply, analyze, and evaluate the ideas you have encountered in the readings so far, with a special focus on any reading of your choice from Unit 3 (print culture). 

Submit your exercise by uploading it to Turnitin.com.

Review the feedback and suggestions I gave you on earlier assignments.  Feel free to quote from or build on anything you've written in class; cite those earlier papers when appropriate, but Ex 3 is not designed as a revision of any earlier work.

As was the case with the other exercises, I am looking for your ability to come up with a clear thesis statement, organize your argument around a blueprint, and how to integrate brief quotations from your sources.

Write for a reader who already knows the readings well, and has a copy in reach.  Quote brief passages, or consider simply referring in passing to "Havelock's treatment of Plato (24)" rather than attempting to repeat Havelock's ideas in detail.

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