English 102
Papers and Other Major Assignments
All papers will be submitted to Brightspace Assignments.
Analysis Paper, 4-5 pages, 15%
(Papers that reach less than four full pages will be graded down one letter grade.)
Sources: FieldWorking, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and The Death and Life of Main Street.
Assignment: Choose a space in Shepherdstown or on the Shepherd campus that you find architecturally interesting. You can choose a building, a corner, street block, an interior or an exterior space. (Feel free to run other possibilities besides the ones listed here by meI want to make sure you have enough material for five pages.) If you are not on campus this semester, if you contact me in advance, you are able to write about a site in your own hometown.
Think about the rhetoric of this space. What is the audience? The purpose? What subcultures use the space? How do they use it? What does the space say about the community of Shepherd or Shepherdstown? Is your space lively? Safe? Attractive? Accessible? Appropriately designed for its purpose? Do both form and function work?
Evaluation criteria:
A clearly stated thesis in your introduction that makes an argument focusing on why and how the architecture works to influence you. Include a paragraph on the counter-argument to make your thesis stronger. 25 points
Include a description of the fieldwork you did to understand your space. Include the details that serve as evidence for your argument, and develop those details to support your argument. 25 points
Paraphrasing and quoting all of your sources to back up your argument. Make sure you analyze your sources and consider the sources’ perspectives. You must use at least four quotes from two separate course texts listed above as resources, and you must introduce and analyze your quotes (quote sandwich.) So four quote sandwiches total, from at least two sources. 20 points
A logical organization for your paper and transitions between sections. 10 points
In-text citation and a Works Cited list, according to MLA guidelines. 5 points
A paragraph of process description at the end of the paper, describing the choices you made as you worked on the paper. When you hand in your revision, keep the original paragraph of process description and add a second paragraph of process description for the revision, highlighting the changes you made for the final draft. When I grade the paper, I will be reading your paragraph first, then comparing the draft and the original paragraph of process description to the revision in order to see the changes you’ve made. 5 points
Clear, meaningful sentences, free of grammatical error and carefully proofread. 10 points
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