Friday, March 7, 2008

Essay 1

Wow, it's time to begin working on easy already. I understand that we are writing an argumentative essay and not a short story. We were given some ideas. I am thinking about exploring coming of age and rites of passage. The story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" pops into my head when i think about coming of age. I am not sure what about coming of age i am going to focus on. I have always found the idea of growing up interesting. I have some general questions:

  1. Are we going to work in peer editing groups once we submit our draft. Last semester the peer editing groups were not truly effective. If we do ger into peer editing groups how will it be different?
  2. Do we still follow the same essay guidelines from ENG 112?
  3. When we turn in our Work Cited does it have to be annotated?

I'm worried about starting this essay. The last essay from ENG111 was an argumentative essay. The amount of research I had to do to support my thesis was overwhelming. The topic of coming of age is broad. Maybe if I narrow my topic I won't find th research so difficult and tedious.

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