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American Literature 201August 23
Michael SimpsonSection 051
“A poem should not meanBut be.”
“Ars Poetica” Archibald MacLeish
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Class Summary
George Orwell’s Rules
Principles of Composition
Summary Research Paper
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (6 – 7)
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George Orwell’s Rules
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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Principles of Composition
Choose a suitable design and hold to it.
Make the paragraph the unit of composition
Use the active voice
Put statements in positive form
Use definite, specific, concrete language
Omit needless words
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Principles of Composition
Avoid a succession of loose sentences
Express coordinate ideas in similar form
Keep related words together
In summaries, keep to one tense
Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
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Summary Research Paper
5 sources2 = paper
3 = internet
Works Cited page in MLA Format
Summary of the research Individual sources
Possible thesis
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Details of Research Summary
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Details of Research Summary
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Details of Research Summary
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Details of Research Summary
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Details of Research Summary
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Details of Research Summary
Purdue Online Writing Lab
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“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (6 - 7)
What others sayPoets.org – “A Close Reading of . . .”
Sparknotes.com – “Summary and Form”
Micklestreet.rutgers.edu – “Online Critical Edition”
Reading (experiencing) the poemyourself
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Last QuestionsRemember for August 25
Read William Bradford (IV – XXXVI)
Deadline for 2nd blog
It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson *
* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.