UVU Writing Lab Workshops Spring 2010
02 February 2010
| Topic | Date | Time | Location |
| Getting Started | 2-Feb
10-Feb |
10:00 AM
11:00 AM |
LI 213
LC 405Q |
| MLA Format | 25-Feb
13-Mar 24-Mar |
11:00 AM
2:00 PM 9:00 AM |
LI 213
LI 207 LI 213 |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | 9-Feb
24-Feb |
2:00 PM
11:00 AM |
LI 213
LI 213 |
| Thesis Statements | 11-Feb
23-Feb |
10:00 AM
3:00 PM |
LI 213
LI 213 |
| What to Do if You’ve Procrastinated | 16-Feb
4-Mar 25-Mar |
11:00 AM
10:00 AM 4:00 PM |
LI 213
LI 213 LI 207 |
| Resumes & Cover Letters | 3-Mar
30-Mar |
11:00 AM
2:00 PM |
LC 405Q
LI 207 |
| Annotated Bibliographies | 20-Feb
9-Mar |
9:00 AM
3:00 PM |
LI 207
LI 207 |
| Organizing Research Papers | 11-Mar
1-Apr |
10:00 AM
2:00 PM |
LI 207
LI 207 |
Hutchinson and Bradstreet
30 January 2010
Given what you know about Anne Hutchinson from Winthrop’s journal and given what you know about Anne Bradstreet from today’s reading, why did one woman’s atypical behavior lead to praise and the other’s lead to exile?
Bruce Michelson and Marjorie Pryse argue that there are two voices in Bradstreet’s poems: “The poet-voice who speaks as she ought, in full accord with religious doctrine, public duty, and conventional belief” and another who “loves, grieves, fears, feels pride, and experience the full range of emotions and curiosities that the teachings of her faith were supposed to put to rest.” Michelson and Pryse suggest that in the poems, sometimes one side seems to win and sometimes the other; sometimes a reassuring harmony between voices is reached and sometimes not.
Excerpts from Hutchinson’s trial
29 January 2010
This PDF contains a transcription of Winthrop, Hutchingson, Dudley, and others at her trial.
England’s colonies
28 January 2010
John Smith, William Bradford, and John Winthrop are often the focus of attention, but the English (in many varieties) alone started fourteen colonies in about 115 years. This chart briefly describes them. Other European nations, of course, started many colonies as well.
English 2510: Greenblatt and Winthrop
26 January 2010
Pick one of Greenblatt’s questions and answer it with Winthrop’s writing in mind.
- What kinds of behavior, what models of practice, does this work seem to enforce?
- Why might readers at a particular time and place find this work compelling?
- Are there differences between my values and the values implicit in the work I am reading? What accounts for these differences?
- Upon what social understanding does the work depend?
- Whose freedom of though or movement might be constrained implicitly by this work?
- What are the larger social structures with which these particular acts of praise or blame might be connected?
Provide examples from “A Model of Christian Charity” to support any assertions you make about it.
English 2510: Greenblatt and Smith
20 January 2010
Assuming that, as the book suggests, origin stories “posit a general cultural outlook and offer perspectives on what life is and how to understand it” (17), what is the best way to understand life according to John Smith’s narrative of America’s origin? What is life like according to it? What “general cultural outlook[s]” might it imply? Record at least three and include examples.
Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
12 January 2010
| Logos | Ethos | Pathos | |
| Definition | Appeal to reason and logic | Projection of the speaker or writer’s character or personal authority | Appeal to emotions and values |
| Case study | Reasons why you can’t go | You can’t go because I say so | Weeping so you won’t go |
| Aristotle | Reason | Will | Emotion |
| Wizard of Oz | Scarecrow | Lion; Dorothy | Tinman |
| Star Trek | Spock | Kirk | McKoy |
| Star Trek TNG | Data | Picard | Troi, Worf |
| Simpson’s | Lisa | Marge | Homer, Bart |
| LOTR | Elrond | Gandalf | Gollum |
| Evidence | Statistics, informal logic | Experts | Anecdotes |
| Methods | Scientific method, factual details, unbiased reportage | Narrative and descriptive details, cases, and examples to back up and support generalizations and demonstrate accuracy | Narrative and descriptive details calculated to evoke an emotional response |
| Problems and weaknesses | No “soul” | Bankrupt personal authority or character | Suspicions of manipulation |
| Remembering | Logos, Logic | “hE can be trusted?” | Pathos, Passion (an emotion) |
- Jung suggests healthy individual are characterized by a balance of reason, will, and emotion. We are suspicious of people who are stuck in one mode of thought.
- The best thinkers, speakers, and writers move among argumentative strategies, adapting to variations in audience. For example, in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King shifts strategies to speak to different segments of his audience.
- Ethos often mediates between logos and pathos.
Adding classes
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Final exams (Fall 2009)
11 December 2009
English 2250
Dec. 16th at 9:00AM in our classroom
English 3510
Dec. 14th at 9:00AM in our classroom
English 2010.026
Dec. 14th at 11:00AM in our classroom
English 2010.037
Dec. 14th at 1:00PM in our classroom
Final exams have been posted under the appropriate heading in the column to the right.
Julie Myerson on the pleasures of writing
22 November 2009
Writing gives me such enormous pleasure, and I’m a much happier (and therefore nicer) person when I’m doing it. There’s a place in my head that I go to when I write and it’s so rich and unexpected – and scary sometimes – but never ever dull. I first went there when I was seven and I wrote a poem which startled me a bit because it felt like someone else had written it. The adrenaline rush that gave me was incredible and I wanted more. These days, maybe because I can now access that place quite easily, writing feels like something I simply could not live without. It is a joyous thing. I feel very lucky to be paid to do it, but even if I’d never been published, I think I’d still be writing. I love being read, but the person I’m really always writing for is me.