Academic Writing 2 Gary Rostock Summer Semester 2009
Lectures will take place every two weeks. Two essays at pass 12 marks are necessary for an overall pass, essays should be between 600 to 700 words and are to be emailed to [email protected]. [email protected]
Your essay should contain a header in which there is: your name, your course code, my name and the deadline date, below this should be the exact title. If you do not comply with this requirement I shall send your essay back to you.
http://www.geocities.com/grostock/formatting_all_students/work_format.htm click here for formatting advice
Do not bring me paper versions. I will Google at least seventy per cent of work submitted and will fail all plagiarists with no chance of re-submission.
I have uploaded an
excellent essay by Marie Pecarova as an illustration of academic writing by a
Czech student for which I gave a maximum of 20. She also formatted the essay
correctly but as a web page this is not visible.
You will need to refer to the Academic Writing website throughout the course
for support materials and a course outline www.geocities.com/grostock
The focus this semester will be on literary critique using the academic writing course as your skills base. My lectures will go over sections of the Academic Writing outline and we will also discuss elements of literary criticism.
http://www.geocities.com/grostock/acwriting/Ac_writing_outline.htm all the information you need is here
IMPORTANT NOTICE CONCERNING ESSAY REQUIREMENTS
You will evaluate two films
Essay 1, Deadline: Friday 10th April
Your first essay title is: Compare and contrast the characters of the Joker and Batman in ´The Dark Knight´
Think about what
each character represents. Why is the Joker´s character so interesting? What
does he stand for? What of Batman? Is he ´good´ in the conventional sense. What
does the Joker mean when he says to Batman "I don't want to kill you, you complete me."
And when he says "I choose chaos," do you believe him?