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paper 5 for golden gate park first-year seminar
April 28th, 2011
Paper 5 for Golden Gate Park1. In Paper 4, you selected a topic related to Golden Gate Park and your major (or prospective major) and wrote a paper about it. In Paper 5, you have two options: a) significantly expand upon the ideas discussed in Paper 4; or b) select a new topic (and clear it with me) and write a paper about it.2. Include at least four new sources. Do not use the first four sources you find. Use the best four sources you find.3. Your paper must be between 7-8 pages, including a bibliography, either in MLA or APA.4. Integrate as many as possible writing skills and techniques discussed this semester in Rhet 195. This includes: introducing your topic; using credible and legitimate sources; summarizing outside sources (recall the "believing game" strategy); selecting and integrating quotations effectively ("quotation sandwiches"); differentiating between what others say about your topic ("they say") and what you say ("I say"); introducing a naysayer; and answering the "who cares?" and "so what?" questions.5. As always, edit carefully.6. Be ready to share elements of your work with classmates. Also be ready to read your classmates' work and provide constructive and creative feedback.7. Paper 5 should be the best paper you write for this class.8. Paper 5 is due in class on Thursday, May 5. No late work accepted.
USF Book Club: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
April 12th, 2011While our April meeting is coming up in a couple days, the Book Club had the foresight to pick our May selection ahead of time.
In May we will discuss The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
I’m looking forward to this book because folks were raving about it on last year’s summer reading episode of Philosophy Talk, and while I don’t consider myself a philosopher per se, I like novels that are educate as well as inform.
To get The Elegance of the Hedgehog, you can put a hold on Gleeson’s copy, request it through Link+, check it out of the SF Public Library, or check out one of our iPads or Kindle, which are loaded with the book.
We will meet in the Electronic Classroom in Gleeson Library from 12 noon – 1 pm on Thursday May 12, 2011.
In a bourgeois apartment building in Paris, we encounter Renée, an intelligent, philosophical, and cultured concierge who masks herself as the stereotypical uneducated “super” to avoid suspicion from the building’s pretentious inhabitants. Also living in the building is Paloma, the adolescent daughter of a parliamentarian, who has decided to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday because she cannot bear to live among the rich. Although they are passing strangers, it is through Renée’s observations and Paloma’s journal entries that The Elegance of the Hedgehog reveals the absurd lives of the wealthy. That is until a Japanese businessman moves into the building and brings the two characters together. A critical success in France, the novel may strike a different chord with some readers in the U.S. The plot thins at moments and is supplanted with philosophical discourse on culture, the ruling class, and the injustices done to the poor, leaving the reader enlightened on Kant but disappointed with the story at hand. –Heather Paulson, Booklist
Email kbaughmanmcdowell@usfca.edu to sign up for the book club email list.
Hope to see you there!
Poetry Reading @ Your Library on April 27
April 7th, 2011Join Gleeson Library as we celebrate National Poetry Month with our 3rd Annual Faculty, Staff, and Student Poetry Reading!
Photo by Brett Baxter of glass mannequin at Salt Lake City Public Library
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 @ 5 p.m.
Gleeson Library | Geschke Center
Rare Book Room, 3rd Floor
Featuring the following USF Poets reading their original work:
AARON SHURIN
JENA JOHNSON
OLIVIA MUÑOZ
MICHAEL FRALEY
BRIAN KOMEI DEMPSTER
The Gleeson Poetry Committee wishes to thank the talented and diverse students and staff who submitted their work to be considered for the reading. We regret not being able to feature everyone!
However, we did gather lists of formidable writers by which our applicants were influenced and inspired, whose books we will feature in a poetry display in conjunction with the reading. So make sure to check out the foyer of the library to get the full poetry month experience!
Arthur Szyk Program on April 14
April 1st, 2011
Please plan to celebrate an important acquisition in the Donohue Rare Book Room on April 14 when the Gleeson Library welcomes Irvin Unger who will give an illustrated talk on the artistry of Arthur Szyk and the history of The Szyk Haggadah. Mr. Ungar is the proprietor of the antiquarian bookselling firm, Historicana and is an international authority on the work of Arthur Szyk. He also curated the recent exhibition at the Legion of Honor Museum “Arthur Szyk: Miniature Paintings and Modern Illuminations.” The Donohue Rare Book Room recently acquired a facsimile of The Szyk Haggadah which is on exhibition through April 15.
The illustrated talk will lay the groundwork for appreciation of the artist-activist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) by evaluating his masterwork, his illuminated Passover Haggadah. Drawn and first published on vellum during the rise of Hitler, The Haggadah is a triumphant work of courage and hope, its style and themes remarkably prescient and enduringly relevant. A Polish
Jew keenly aware of current events, Arthur Szyk fused his two passions—art and history—into a visual commentary on the dangerous parallel between the Exodus narrative of Egyptian oppression and alarming developments unfolding in Nazi Germany. After the war, he continued to devote himself to justice issues, including support of the creation of Israel. Szyk’s work is characterized by its social and political commitment, and by its adoption of illuminated manuscript tradition.
The program will take place at noon on Thursday, April 14 in the Donohue Rare Book Room. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend. For further information, please call (415) 422-2036. The program is co-sponsored by the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice.
John Hawk
Head Librarian, Donohue Rare Book Room
paper 4 for golden gate park first-year seminar
March 24th, 2011
Paper 4 for Golden Gate Park1. Select any topic related to a) Golden Gate Park and b) your major (or prospective major) and write a paper about it. Be sure to select a topic that truly interests you.2. Find and use at least three outside readings. As discussed in class, your readings must be from credible and legitimate sources.3. At some point in your paper, you must introduce a naysayer. For this part, I highly encourage you to re-read Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein's chapter, "'Skeptics May Object': Planting a Naysayer in Your Text," in They Say / I Say.4. Also at some point in your paper, you must answer two questions: "Who cares?" and "So what?" For this part, I encourage you to re-read Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein's chapter, "'So What? Who Cares?': Saying Why It Matters," in They Say / I Say.5. As decided collectively in class, your paper is to be between 3-5 pages - no more, no less.6. Edit carefully. If I find three or more errors - spelling, grammar, typos - I will stop reading your paper, return it to you, and ask you to re-edit and re-submit.7. Sometime between now and class on Tuesday, April 5, tweet the topic of your paper. Be sure to include the #rhet195 hashtag in your tweet.8. Paper 4 is due in class on Tuesday, April 5. No late work accepted.
