Course
Requirements Literary Response Paper: 10%
Oral and Group Reports/Abstract 10%
Research Report 5%
Progress 5%
Seminar Paper (about 20 pages) 70%
| Spring Term 2008 Professor Kenneth McNeil Office phone: 5-4578 e-mail: mcneilk@easternct.edu Office: Webb Hall 234 http://www.easternct.edu/personal/faculty/mcneilk |
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Course
Requirements
Literary
Response Paper: 10%
Oral and Group Reports/Abstract 10%
Research
Report 5%
Progress 5%
Seminar Paper (about 20 pages) 70%
Course Goals
Part II of the Senior Seminar will be focused largely on the Seminar paper.
By now you should have some idea of what this final product will be. For this
final writing effort (I hope) of you career here at Eastern, you will be gradually
building toward the grand argument, the culmination of your scholarly thinking
as an English major at Eastern.
Avoid plagiarism (stealing the exact words or ideas of another) like the plague. In this class acts of plagiarism incur a zero and could also result in course failure.
Disclaimer: I reserve the right to change the syllabus and assigned readings (with plenty of advanced warning)
Calendar
Week 1
January 23: Patricio Paiz, "En Memoria de Arturo Tijerina"; Alexander
Mackenzie, The History of the Highland Clearances, (excerpt), Wallace
Terry, Bloods
Week 2
January 30: Gregg Easterbrook, "The End of
War?", War Protest Songs
Week 3
February 6:Meet in class: Oral Reports. Turn in Revised Proposal
Week 4
February 13: No class. Deliver 5 pages of
your draft to me (e-mail or otherwise) and to the members of your critique group.
Week 5
February 20: No class. Group Reports
Week 6
February 27: In-class
Research Report
Week 7
March 5: No class. Individual conferences,
bring research notes.
Week 8
March 12: No class. Deliver 10 pages of your
draft to me (e-mail or otherwise) and to the members of your critique group.
Week 9
Spring Break!
Week 10
March 26: No class. Group Reports
Week 11
April 2: No class.
Week 12
April 9: Group Reports
Deliver a completed draft and a 200-word abstract of your own paper to me (e-mail or otherwise) and to the members of your critique group
Week 14
Individual conferences, bring research notes.
Week 13
April 16: Meet in class: discuss abstracts, prepare
for seminar readings
Week 15
April 30: Formal Seminar Reading,
Location TBA
May 7: Meet in class: final oral presentation
Final Exam Week
Final Seminar Paper due: Wednesday May 14th,
7 pm
Some Useful Links
A Bibliography on War and Culture
Illustration: Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War "With or Without Reason"