Link to your portfolio Comment below with a link to your portfolio and a brief summary of your track and work!
Write about your thesis statement How does it address Acheson's three essential questions? Which does it address most strongly or are you most excited about? What weakness...
Today's terms Choose a couple of terms from today's assignment. Compare/contrast. How are they connected and distinct?
Lexicon 212-216 What term from the reading selection stood out to you as especially important or interesting?
Episode 2 What connections are you starting to make in episode 2? These could be text to self connections, text to other text connections, or text ...
Pope- "Contemporary Approaches" Which "contemporary approach" or critical theory was most attractive to you? How does it fit with your career/life goals/interests/etc.? ...
Pope-3.2 and 3.3 New Criticism & Formalism If you were a "new critic" what are one or two things you would focus on in this passage from S-town? What (maybe more importantly) would...
Notice, Pattern, Contrast, Feeling Create a blog post that uses Pope's 4 step analytical process about one thing from Episode 1 of the S-town podcast. Keep it brief but ins...
"Englishes" Compare and contrast Pope's view of "Englishes" with the video you watched. Be personal--make an argument. Bonus points if you use a quote.
Mat Wenzel Nov 23, 2019 1 min IMPORTANT: Draft Due In order to stave off procrastination and increase the likelihood of creating revised and polished final drafts, students are required to...
Mat Wenzel Sep 26, 2019 1 min Example portfolios You can see some of the portfolios from my previous students by following this link https://matwenzel.wixsite.com/intro/post/portfolios
Mat Wenzel Sep 19, 2019 1 min Proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Us3GCnNe7no7y-nrokiGhkMY6dS90mnYy5Ozh64tjo0/edit?usp=sharing https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cf...
Mat Wenzel Sep 17, 2019 1 min Initial read of Episode 2 Some thoughts on Episode 2 written in the moment.
Mat Wenzel Sep 5, 2019 1 min Close Reading "There is a small but immitigable fallacy in the theory of close reading, . . . and it applies to political journalism as well as to the ...
Mat Wenzel Aug 29, 2019 1 min So you wanna be an English major? Welcome to ENG 2012! This website will be the hub for our course. Reading responses, assignments, announcements will be updated here.
