Fluent Essays

Banned Book List: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Confessions of Nat Turner Lolita The Color Purple The Satanic Verses Catch 22 The Catcher in the Rye Fahrenheit 451 Grapes of Wrath Animal Farm The Da Vinci Code Uncle Tom’s Cabin - For this journal, pick one – only one – of the books listed below and research the context of its banning. Discuss the potentially controversial elements of your novel and how it is accepted in our country today, often times for the very reasons it may have been banned. Keep in mind the argument aspect of this class. What arguments surround or surrounded this novel? This is an MLA research journal entry, which should be between 300-500 words.  - The reading of the entire novel is not required, but a quote directly from it and a correct citation of the novel itself (not a webpage on the novel) is recommended.Eng/Hum The Short Folder 1. Create creative titles A paper on Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” should not be entitled Jack London or “To Build a Fire”. It should be entitled what you are saying about either or both, creatively, in the paper. This goes for rough drafts (when they occur for Major Grades later in the semester), for which you would have a “working title”. Please do not decorate your titles with CAPS, larger font, italics, quotation marks, or underlining. Your title should be the same font as the rest of the paper. 2. Commas go inside quotation marks For example: When I read “The Red Convertible,” NOT When I read “The Red Convertible”, 3. Title treatment Poems, articles, essays, and short stories go in quotation marks AND books, movies, newspapers, TV shows and magazines should be italicized or underlined. Nothing goes in quotation marks and with italics/underlines. Every paper we write will involve not only the title we are writing about collectively, but “Case Study” titles as well. FOR MLA research protocol: 4. Periods go after – only after – parentheses. 5. Periods go after, but quotation marks go before the parentheses. 6. Space before writing your MLA parentheses. 7. No parentheses belong in a research paper except MLA parentheses. 8. Use keywords inside those parentheses. Entire titles and entire names are not necessary. When an author’s last name is available, always use that author’s last name as the keyword. When there can be confusion on the Works Cited page regarding your keyword, choose one that would avoid the confusion. 9. Page numbers are included in parentheses for sources with page numbers. 10. Here is the Works Cited model for a novel: Works Cited Theroux, Paul. Dark Star Safari. Boston: Mariner Books, 2004. Author, last name first. Book Title. Place of Publishing Company: Publishing Company, Year of Publication. Indent second lines if they exist, which in the above example does not apply. 11. Here is a Works Cited model for an Internet page. Note that there are three (only 3) mandatory elements to be included for any web page, although some pages also have authors, sponsors, and dates of update: Works Cited “Title of Web Page in Quotation Marks.” Date of Your Research www.fullwebaddresscopyandpasteisOK.govedu.cometc Another example, this time of a “stacked” web page (one with an author, sponsor, and date of update): Randerson, James. “Childish Superstition: Einstein’s letter makes view of religion relatively clear.” The Guardian. 13 May 2008. 5 Jan 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion 12. Last word: Not only should your entire paper be in the same font, all of your Works Cited should be in the same font. When copying and pasting long web addresses on to your Works Cited page, the next step if necessary may be to highlight the whole paper and choose only one type and one size font.This document shows formatting while covering some instructions. Then an actual Journal #1, which follows those instructions, is included. Centered, Creative Title, Short Folder Rule #1 TAB to indent each paragraph. All essays, unlike an Abstract or an Annotated Bibliography or a Discussion Board post, must have multiple indented paragraphs. The word count must be 300-500 words. Any header information you choose to include does not count as part of the 300-500 word count. The Works Cited page, which of course must be included for any essay in our class, does not count for the 300-500 word count either. In Eng 112, students don’t have to write basic or “starter” sentences. Whether it is Journal #1 about a personal choice or Journal #2 about a list of controversial Supreme Court decisions in recent years, students should not write basic starters such as, “I am choosing to write about this for our class because …” and “It is an important issue people have been talking about for a long time.” In the process of writing any essay in English 112, I want students to be formal. Writing is many times more formal than talking, yet students mistakenly build habits in which they start sentences with “Well,” “Yes,” and “No” and use language more appropriate for a friendly conversation, including the use of fragments. While all essays should include at least one quote, probably from research, do not write as if having a conversation with the reader. The reader is an abstract notion, meaning anybody in any place at any time, not just the teacher who gives out assignments. Journal #1had to be about a personal choice, big or small, that was meant to achieve a standard that perhaps it failed to do. No matter what essay is being assigned or written in this class, it has to be research. Students have to perform research, document that research, and therefore include MLA parentheses and Works Cited pages. Please keep reading this document to see an example of Journal #1. It could not be written without referencing The Short Folder and Essay Rules; both are here in Moodle and must be read and consulted for better essays. That is why many times in most responses to Journal #1, I made comments like “follow Short Folder #4” or “Short Folder #11 needed”. Too many students, it would seem, ignored reading the required documents like The Short Folder before writing Journal #1 or proofreading the MLA standards. Please be sure to read and follow The Short Folder for Journal #2, which includes Short Folder rules #9 and #10 because of the small chance that students use a book for research in the class. Always follow the “no you” rule. Works Cited “Two to Four Sources Always Needed for a Journal, Never Just One.” Date of your Research www.indentthesecondlineofentriesanduseABCorderforthelisting.com “What is the Title of the Web Address source used?” Date of your Research www.indentthesecondlineofentriesanduseABCorderforthelisting.com The Humble Hobby I moved my g2 paw