Paper Only: Resources, Questions & Advice for the Hamlet Paper

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LET’S USE THIS THREAD FOR QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE HAMLET PAPER.  For discussion of the play, use the thread below.  (Much of what is in the thread below will be helpful for your understanding and your writing, but let’s post all new paper-centric matters here.  Remember also that the assignment handout is at the beginning of the thread below.)

Remember these links:

MLA Formatting & Citations: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Thoughts on Plagiarism (keep clicking through): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/

Writing the College Paper: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/what.shtml

Words, Words, Words: Hamlet and the Hamlet Paper

UPDATE:  PLEASE POST ALL NEW MATTERS RELATING TO WRITING THE HAMLET PAPER IN THE THREAD ABOVE THIS ONE.

Here we post about Shakespeare’s play.  Please discuss the issues raised by the Prompts handout and any other materials you have or find.  As for the paper, we will also share ideas and resources, solve problems about arguments, and make sure we know how to cite and format.  Feel free to post evidence from the play and its performances to back up what you say.  This is also the ideal place to share links and scholarship.

Crime & Punishment

Here we discuss the novel, its author, and all the issues that spring forth in our studies.  SPOILER CAUTION: Please post only about Part One of the book until the 28th; after that please post about Parts One and Two.

 

READING SCHEDULE FOR MR. MADISON’S STUDENTS:  Part One completed by 11/21, Part Two by 11/28, Part Three by 12/7 or 12/8 block.  Finish the entire book by the first Monday after winter break:  1/9/2012.

Poetry

Here we discuss poems, poets, and experiences with poetry.  You may also seek help or give advice for writing about poetry.

 

Dorm Room Philosophy

Students should take AP Lit for two reasons:  one, to get more Simpsons jokes, and, two, to better entertain friends and roommates during dorm-room bull sessions at three in the morning.  Hope this thread helps.

Suppose that you have made a scientific discovery of such magnitude that, once it is put into practice, hunger, disease, and war would disappear from the face of the earth.  But in order to make your discovery known, it is somehow necessary that you kill one hundred innocent people. Does one have the right, or even the duty, to eliminate these people in the name of human progress?

Hot and/or Cool

Here we share links, videos, and sites just for fun.  Please recommend movies, books, games, apps, restaurants, stores, etc.

Command Central: The Big Paper

ALL POSTING CLOSED NOW–THANKS FOR PLAYING

Here is where you can ask Mr. Madison and your classmates questions about the paper, resources, formatting, citations, plagiarism, etc.  You may also find ways to help out people who are writing on similar subjects.  Whatever you are writing about for the Big Paper, please direct all questions and contributions to this thread.

Mr. Madison will be checking this thread and answering questions until late in the evening on Thursday, April 28.  Good luck.

TRY OUT THESE LINKS BY COPYING AND PASTING THE ADDRESS INTO YOUR BROWSER:

Formatting & Citations:   http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Thoughts on Plagiarism (keep clicking through): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/

Writing the College Paper: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/what.shtml

College Life Preview

U P D A T E :    Congratulations if you have received happy news about next year.  A mantra of “Everything Will Work Out Fine” to those of you who are disappointed (it’s true, by the way).  To honor the occasion of students receiving news from schools, here are some pieces questioning the whole enterprise.  All from The Atlantic (your one-stop shopping for cold-water-to-the-face and/or cynicism).  Comment away:

An Anti-College Backlash?

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/an-anti-college-backlash/73214/

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower/6810/

What’s Wrong with the American University System

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/whats-wrong-with-the-american-university-system/60458/

The Truth About Harvard

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/the-truth-about-harvard/3726/

What Does College Teach?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/11/what-does-college-teach/4306/

NOTE:  IF YOU MISSED FRIDAY’S CLASS (3/25), PLEASE READ THE LINK BELOW ABOUT POLITICALLY CORRECT SPEECH.  I ASSIGNED IT TO WARN YOU ALL OF THE PERILS AND LANDMINES OF CAMPUS SPEECH.  IF ONE INNOCENTLY SAYS THE WRONG THING, ONE MAY BE IN AS DEEP TROUBLE WITH THE SCHOOL AUTHORITIES AS SOMEONE WHO AIMS TO BE MALICIOUS.  YOUR MAKEUP WORK IS TO WRITE A PERSONAL RESPONSE (ONE PAGE, HANDWRITTEN) TO ONE OR MORE OF THE TERMS ON THE SHEET.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3027/a_politically_correct_lexicon/

Here we discuss what to expect in and out of the classroom over the next four years or so.  Articles, warnings, previews, tips, etc. are all welcome.   Comments must not address parties, drinking, drugs, or sex (unless it relates to what occurs within a classroom in session).  Instead, we will consider the intellectual life of the college student (classes, schools of criticism, discipines, grades, majors, study habits, dealing with professors and advisers), campus controversies (department politics, speech & behavior codes, academic integrity, what’s making headlines), and encouraging advice (roommates, making friends, balancing sports and jobs, being homesick, etc.).

What’s So Funny

Here we share links to things that make us laugh.  We also discuss why we laugh, why we shouldn’t, and how comedy can be explored without ruining it.

The Shakespeare Paper

Here we share ideas and resources, solve problems about arguments, and make sure we know how to cite and format.  If you’re writing about Othello, be sure to look again at the Othello thread down below.