1. Introductions, conclusions, and titles
2. Revising for concision and clarity
3. Images: Argument, Evidence, Story 3: Discuss Berger, "Appearances"
4. Sign up for next week's individual meetings
Required reading / viewing / listening:
J. Berger, "Appearances"
Homework due:
Response paper 3
Using your summary of the essay by Coles that you wrote for last week, write a brief (300 to 500 words) essay defining what a reader of your summary would miss by not reading Cole's essay. What is Coles doing that your summary overlooked or oversimplified? That your essay could not represent? What, in short, is the difference between the reader of your summary and the reader of Coles's essay?
In-class assessment:
Quiz 3
outline and abstract
Below are lists of specific items; fill in the blank with a general heading that accurately describes the list provided.
Calculus, European History, Macroeconomics, Human Biology
book, newspaper, magazine, journal
(Adapted from Langan, J. (1999). English Skills with Readings, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
For the paragraph below, identify the topic sentence and create an outline for the paragraph using alphnumeric, sentence, or decimal outline format:
The years since the early 1970s are unprecedented in terms of the volatility in the prices of commodities, currencies, real estate and stocks, and the frequency and severity of financial crises. In the second half of the 1980s, Japan experienced a massive bubble in its real estate and in its stock markets. During the same period the prices of real estate and of stocks in Finland, Norway, and Sweden increased even more rapidly than in Japan. In the early 1990s, there was a surge in real estate prices and stock prices in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and most of the nearby Asian countries; in 1993, stock prices increased by about 100 percent in each of these countries. In the second half of the 1990s, the United States experienced a bubble in the stock market; there was a mania in the prices of the stocks of firms in the new industries like information technology and the dot.coms.
Kindleberger, C.P. (2005). Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A history of financial crises. 5th ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Notes:
Sample academic titles
Wilsson, L. (1974). Observations and Experiments on the Ethology of the European Beaver.
Cheney, D. L., and Seyfarth, R. M. (1990). How Monkeys See the World.
Lewis, W.A. The Evolution of the International Economic Order.
Linn, J. (2002). Ten Years of Transition in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Good News and the Not-So-Good News.
Krasner, S. (1999). Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy.
