Day 10
- BP?
- Selling and Evaluation chapter
- The writing process
- Essay overview
- Hacker-style: pages 5, 11, 16
- The writing process
- Thesis work
- Guidelines
- Practice
- Practice
- Guidelines
- "In text" citations in Rough Draft.
- "Works cited" due with final draft.
- Rough draft due Wednesday. Bring four copies.
- Research ideas:
"Nickel and Dimed" was a great book. I enjoyed reading it a lot. Although I didn't think the author was completely objective in her approach, I certainly do agree with her.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the reading load was a little steep for our first book. we have other classes
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a great book too. It made me open my eyes to that type of lifestyle. I thought Ehrenreich was very brave to try something like that. I don’t think I could go from being a successful journalist to a waitress or a worker at Wal-Mart = [.
ReplyDeleteI have to be honest, I didn't follow the book as well as I'd hoped. I mean, it did open my eyes to the poverty and struggles people experience, but I'll have to agree with Scott, I thought it was a lot of reading.
ReplyDelete"Nickel and Dimed" was a an easy quick read. I did not like the way Ehrenreich insisted that this was a journalistic take on her experience. I felt it was largely biased to her point of view, which is fine once admitted. I do feel as though textual and critical analysis of the work was done for us in the afterward chapter and worksheets assigned to us.
ReplyDeleteI whole heartedly agree with Dave, and then some. I have no problem with blatantly subjective op-ed pieces, but please don’t call it journalism. I think that society would be better served if people were honest about their motives and biases.
ReplyDelete-Matthew