APELC Class Notes
Yesterday and today, I reviewed alternate ways of understanding and applying logos, ethos, and pathos, and I tried to clarify the use of the examples of organization I offered you in the handout. I also showed you ways to introduce and outroduce your essays using highly evaluative, contextualizing language. Again, I recommend that you use my examples only as guides and not to imitate my style.
I enumerated free-response revision submission requirements and details (which are also listed in your course outline), but I’ll post them here too. This’ll be the only time I post them all year, but I’ll remind you of them as you turn in subsequent revision work―it’s tedious to repost them every time, and it takes the onus off of you to be responsible for learning what I expect in your work. Here they are:
- Writers must have conferred with me over their initial paper to submit a revision.
- Papers must be typed and formatted according to MLA style guidelines—use the template (under Class Materials on your class page)—and should be no less than two and half and no more than three pages long.
- Papers containing more than four obvious errors in conventions and usage for consultative, written, academic English or violations of MLA style will lose 7% from the final grade.
- Papers must be accompanied by a cover sheet (under Class Materials on your class page) detailing its writer’s revision process.
- Cover sheets are to be attached to the revision, former on top of the latter, with one staple, horizontally, in the upper-left hand corner.
- Writers who did not confer with me over their initial drafts or who chose not to revise their essays must still submit a cover sheet, blank except for name, date, title, and initial score, “I choose not to revise timed-writing X” in number 4, and signed.
- Revision scores will replace initial in-class scores if merited.
I failed to communicate the information about embedding quotations and bracketing ellipses I emphasized with third and fourth period to fifth, but here’re some worthy resources that will benefit everyone. Read these pages carefully:
- “Email Grammar and Style: Quoting Properly” from the Pedagogies page at Romantic Circles hosted by the University of Maryland.
- “MLA Formatting Quotations” from the MLA Style page at Purdue’s Online Writing Lab.
For our purposes, even though it’s no longer required by the MLA but it’s not incorrect, I’m requiring the use of brackets around any ellipses you use when quoting another speaker’s text. Also, I prefer you not end a clipped quotation with bracketed or any ellipsis.
You have a bit to do kids. Get to it. Please don’t wait until Sunday evening to commence working on the template or to begin your cover sheet. And be mindful of conventions. Don’t let all your hard work and thought go to waste because of carelessness or sloth.
Remember to print and bring the speech text next class. (I didn’t mention this to third, so if others of you would remind any peers you know in that class, I’d appreciate it.)