Hi Everyone,

Thanks for a great discussion today (the observer is going to come next Thursday now). For Tuesday please bring in a “draft” of your proposal for your essay. It should be about a paragraph long and should state the basic premise of what you plan to do in your essay. Remember it is a draft.

We’ll have a librarian in class on Tuesday so please write down at least one question you would like to ask her about how to conduct research through the library’s resources. Any question at all! There are no “dumb” questions.

Remember to do exercise #1 in the “Art of Quoting” excerpt I handed out today (here’s a pdf as well) and bring it to class. Please also again bring the “What Is Academic Writing?” essay to class (I want us to talk about pages 13-14).

Here’s a pdf of the entire first section of They Say I Say for those who are interested in reading more.

Finally, for those of you interested in writing on Orwell, I’ve decided to post the introduction and first chapter of Edward Said’s Orientalism here. You can use this as a source if you wish.