Blog/Journal Responses 50%
You will be required to post here every day or evening of our trip. These posts will include ideas about the literature’s aesthetics, the literature’s relationship to historical and cultural events, research findings, material learned from excursions, etc. These blog posts are intended to serve as an interactive and collaborative learning tool. You will use them to share with each other ideas and findings in the expectation that your peers will learn from your work.
The journal responses are private; only I will see them (unless you choose to share them on your own). You will write six journal entries while we are out in London on our excursions. These will need to be handwritten, so you will need a paper journal for the trip. (Feel free to use this journal for your own reflections as well; just section off the entries you’ll turn in somehow.)
Choose either the research paper or the creative piece and see descriptions of the assignments below:
Final Project 50%
Based on your research and experience as reflected in your journals and on your blog posts, undergraduates will produce an 6-8 pp. project and graduate students will produce a 10-15 pp. project.
Undergraduate
- Research Essay
Requirements:
- 6-8 pages
- MLA documentation
- 4-6 secondary sources (2 may include material from our walking tours. Cite as “Speeches, Lectures, or Other Oral Presentations (including Conference Presentations)” see OWL Purdue or the MLA Handbook 7th
Assignment:
Write a research essay on one of the texts that we read this semester, incorporating historical and cultural material into your reading of the novel.
- Creative Piece
Requirements:
- 6-8 page story
- 3-page reflection that discusses your craft choices
- MLA documentation
- 4-6 secondary sources (Two sources may include material from our walking tours. Cite as “Speeches, Lectures, or Other Oral Presentations (including Conference Presentations)” see OWL Purdue or the MLA Handbook 7th
Assignment:
Write a story, play, or screenplay that integrates ideas, themes, or concepts from the texts that we read this semester, incorporating historical and cultural material into your piece.
Graduate
Research Essay
- Requirements:
- 10-15 pages
- MLA documentation
- 6-8 secondary sources (2 may include material from our walking tours. Cite as “Speeches, Lectures, or Other Oral Presentations (including Conference Presentations)” see OWL Purdue or the MLA Handbook 7th
Assignment:
Write a research essay on one of the fictional texts that we read this semester, incorporating historical and cultural material into your reading of the novel.
- Creative Piece
Requirements:
- 12-15 page story
- 5-page reflection that discusses your craft choices
- MLA documentation
- 6-8 secondary sources (Two sources may include material from our walking tours. Cite as “Speeches, Lectures, or Other Oral Presentations (including Conference Presentations)” see OWL Purdue or the MLA Handbook 7th
Assignment:
Write a story that integrates ideas, themes, or concepts from the texts that we read this semester, incorporating historical and cultural material into your piece.