Monday/Wednesday students, for Monday, 3/31 you should do HW 32, responding to Riverbend. The handout for this is: HW 32, 33, 34, 35A, 35B, and 36, or you can read the directions below. Also, the updated calendar is available. I’ll give you printed copies on Monday.
Calendar for Mon/Wed (revised 3/36/08)
HW 32: Responding to Riverbend
for A Blog of One’s Own: Women and Authorship in the Digital Revolution
For Mon/Wed students, due Mon. 3/31. For Tuesday/Thursday students, due Tues. 4/1.
· First, read the foreword and introduction to Baghdad Burning (Riverbend vii-ix).
· Please also review Chapter 2 on “The Art of Summarizing” in They Say/I Say (Graff 28-38)
· Write a post of 150-400 words that achieves these two main things:
· Summarize the Foreword and Introduction. Try to capture all the main points, and don’t write a boring list summary. Remember to mention the work by its full title, and to be clear when you’re summarizing Soueif and when you’re summarizing Ridgeway. These two authors are, of course, distinct from Riverbend.
· Compare the Soueif and Ridgeway’s account to your own memories or impression of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq since 2003. How are your own impressions similar to or different from the account in of the war in Iraq in the text?
· Provide MLA in-text citations giving the page number(s) of the parts of the text you refer to (both the text as a whole and specific passages you discuss).
· Spell-check. Give the post a descriptive title that includes HW 32.
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