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Submitting a Paper
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The class portfolio lists the assignments your instruc¬tor has created and your submissions to these assign¬ments.

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• by file upload (used to submit a paper as a computer file; we currently accept submissions in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, plain text, and HTML formats)

• by cut and paste (used to submit a paper in a file format we do not accept, by cutting and pasting the text into a text box)

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1. Click the submit icon next to the desired assignment in your class portfolio .
2. Select file upload from the submission pulldown menu.
3. Enter a title for your submission and an ID
4. Click the Browse button and locate the paper you want to submit.
5. Click submit. On the following page you will be asked to confirm the text of your submission. If the text checks out, click yes, submit to finalize your submission.

After submitting a paper, you will receive a digital receipt. From this screen you can proceed to your class portfolio to view the submission.

Journal Entry for Week 2/5

This week we discussed character and setting as two major elements of literary fiction. For this journal entry, choose a story we have discussed in class and compare one of the story's characters to the story's setting. How are they alike? Different? Does one highlight certain aspects or characteristics of the other? Here are some possible choices: Miss Emily in "The Rose for Emily," Sammy in "A&P," or Calixta in "The Storm." However, you can choose any character from any story we have discussed in class.

Keep in mind that your first essay will cover short stories so you may want to start developing some ideas in this and all your journal entries. The more you have thought about and explored your topic in writing, the more successful you will be.

Week of January 29 - Hills Like White Elephants

This week you read "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. In class, we discussed four different theories of literary criticism. From the perspective of one of the four theories, comment on the story. For example, if you use the expressive theory, what conclusions or connections could you make between the story and Hemingway's personal life. or, if you use the mimetic theory, comment on how well Hemingway represents the complexities of romantic relationships.

Your First Journal Entry

Keeping a journal in which you respond to the stories, poems, and plays we read in class will be a feature of Composition II this spring. Every week, you will write two journal entries. For one of the entries, you will respond to a question or prompt I will post on this blog. The second journal entry topic is up to you. Think of your free journal topic as an arena to explore possible topics that could be developed into a short paper or research paper.

Each journal entry should be typed and should total at least 25 lines of text. You have the option to either create your own blog using blogger.com (click on the big "B" in the left hand corner and follow the directions to set up a blog) or keep a hard copy journal in a folder. The entries should be composed in developed paragraphs with relatively few errors in grammar and punctuation. You will be graded on how thoughtfully you respond to the prompt or how thoughfully you create a topic, how effectively you manage sentence skills in the entry, and how attententively you attribute outside sources in your entry. Any entry shorter than 25 lines will receive a grade of F.

Here is your prompt for your first journal entry, due by the end of class today.

Chapter 1, "Exploring Literature," discusses the term literary canon—the way it has developed, its conflicted yet persistent existence in education and literary scholarship, and the political implications of the literary canon. In short, the literary canon, according to our textbook, "has come to denote a group of works generally agreed upon by writer, teachers, and critics to be worth reading and studying." In other words, the literary canon is simply the works that a culture thinks are important for students to study and for people to know.

Ultimately, I want to you to consider the literary canon as a living, breathing representation of what we as a culture consider important—values, lessons, representations of experiences, common goals. Because those things change over time, the literary canon changes as well. Who decides what is included? We do. In the spirit of that understanding, I want you to write a list of imaginary criteria for works of the literary canon. In other words, what attributes do you think works of literature must have to be considered part of literary canon? You may use examples from books you have read as part of your educational experience or books you have read independently to make your points. Finally, I want you to tell me what role you believe literature plays in the life of a culture.

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