Students received a new hand-out on additional background material; some class time devoted to reading this and completing additional facts on the "quizlet" paper. If you did not finish that work in class, you'll need to finish it on your own.
During the last part of today's class, I provided some brief groundwork for the upcoming personal essay. Full details and due dates on Wednesday, but today I mentioned two areas of caution and developed some of the rationale for avoiding these topics:
- Many advisors warn against writing about any of the "Four D's": divorce, disease, depression, and death.
- The formulaic "mission essay"--avoid the narrative from packing to return with predictable slots to be filled by the details of your particular trip, but drawn from such a small pool of options that veteran essay readers can write this essay by heart. Instead, find a significant slice of your experience and develop that.
TOMORROW
You'll receive the complete essay assignment.
We'll do the final piece of the Anglo-Saxon background material.
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