Welcome to English 15
Instructor: Alita Putnam
Email: abp140@psu.edu
Office: 53F Burrowes
Office Hours: 11:00-1:00 T, 2:15-3:15 W
Class: 209 Willard, 1:25-2:15 MWF
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HAVE AN AWESOME BREAK EVERYONE!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!-JustinCredible a.k.a. Jose
Thanks Everyone! I have your essays and I'll have your grades in by the end of the week (I have no idea how long the offices take to post them on eLion, however). I've appreciated having all of you in class and hope you have a marvelous winter break. Enjoy yourselves, stay safe, and feel free to stop by next semester (and pick up your essays). Take care- Alita!! (p.s. Spinachell is yours now, do with it as you would like.)
~~~~~~~heyy, so we can get our 10 page papers next semester? because i would like mine back and would like to know what i got on it. soo let me kno if u ever read this again...thanks. -sam
!!Your final grades for this class have been posted. Your final papers are now available to be picked up from my desk (53F Burrowes)...and will be available next semester as well (the quicker you pick them up, the quicker I get my desk back, so PLEASE). Take care, have fun and happy holidays! --Alitabeth
Examples of definitional essays: \"What is Poverty?\" by Jo Goodwin Parker. Excellent definitional essay, depending heavily on narration and 1st person. You can also read "Indecent Exposure, Exposed!" and "What is Alaskan?", both student essays in your Penn Statements book.
Definitional Essay: \"On Bullshit\"
How To essays: On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner.
How To Essays
Vignettes
Analogies
Constant Struggle
Your October 14 Homework
**Logical Fallacies
- Everything you ever wanted to know!
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Welcome to English 15, one of three core required courses in rhetoric at Penn State University. These courses are required for all Penn State graduates - not because we wish to torment you with classes in communication production and analysis, but because rhetoric offers you techniques and insights necessary to all of the disciplines.
My goal for this course is for you to achieve some sense of fluency in both rhetoric and writing. Fluency doesn't mean that you never make mistakes or you tattooed all the rules on your forearm; but it does mean you're familiar and adept at using rhetoric--written, verbal, multimedia--to your purpose. It means that ten years from now, when you've forgotten the fancy vocab, you'll still be able to use writing and rhetoric to explore and investigate, as well as persuade.
Practice, of course, makes perfect, and much of this practice you will be doing right here, on this wiki. Take a look around, change what you'd like (web decorators welcome!), and dive on in. Check the syllabus for today's assignments and be sure to read all the links.
For Lost Pages
Class Policies
Syllabus
DueDates
OurBlogs
Undergrad Writing Center Please go to the Writing Center at least twice over the course of the semester.
Our Fallacies
Our How To Essays
Our Halloween Stories!!!
Writing Workshop Guidelines
AcademicResources
QuestionsAnswers
- WhatWikiIs - history and explanation
- WikiStyle - find out how to edit wikis
- SandBox - play around here to figure out how to edit wiki pages
Professor Putnam- please read your email...thanks
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