APELC Class Notes
Objectives: APELCers 1) processed a speech, 2) identified schemes and tropes in the same, and 3) reviewed timed-writing revision procedures and requirements.
Third juniors and seniors, you began by processing the text of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. I asked you to carefully to comb the speech and identify particular schemes and tropes, which we then discussed and analyzed. We finished the day by detailing important aspects and expectations of the revision process during which I argued, among other things, the suitability of the five-paragraph essay format for organizing the argument that is your analysis and, indeed, the format’s endorsement by the prompt writers. At period’s end you turned in your notes and review from Tuesday.
Remember,
- Writers must have conferred with me over their initial paper to submit a revision.
- Papers must be accompanied by a cover sheet detailing its writer’s revision process.
- Papers must be typed and formatted according to MLA style guidelines—use the template—and should be no less than two and half pages and no more than three pages long.
- Papers containing more than four obvious errors in conventions and usage for formal, written, Academic English will be lose 7% from the final grade. (Read and reread carefully and use your giant yellow text’s “Grammar Handbook” for assistance).
- Writers who did not confer with me over their initial drafts or who chose not to revise their essays must still complete a cover sheet, blank except for name, date, title, and initial score and “I choose not to revise timed-writing X” in number 5, signed.
- Revision scores will replace initial in-class scores if merited.
- Papers and accompanying cover sheet (or blank, signed cover sheets) are due no later than 3:00 pm on Tuesday, September 2.
In defense of the five-paragraph essay format as an arrangement guide for your revision, I argued:
- Its roots in the six-step classical argument structure: Exordium, narration, partition, confirmation, refutation, and conclusion (see Using English and Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian & Secular Tradition).
- The prompt calls for such arrangement in that it ask you to identify and argue a purpose and suggests a three-prong attack (”diction, imagery, and sentence structure”).
- Such a three-prong attack lends itself to three body paragraphs which requires an attending introduction (with thesis) and outroduction.
Check under the “Materials” section of your class page for examples of arrangement and organization, and check your other homework details while you’re there. And please take a look at yesterday’s notes for detailed clarification of how to approach notes and not review (the bulk of which I have gone over in class).
Enjoy your three-day weekend, kids.
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