DO NOT USE QUOTATIONS JUST SUMMARIZE

AND SITE MLA

USE GOOGLE DRIVE

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the university of north carolina at greensboro” as one of the annotated bibliography

prof email for book annotated bibliography: just summarize facts that help us better understand the “Address.” In you Project 1 paper, you will use this information in essay form, more fully using your sources.

And, you might want to remember that we quote passages that are especially memorable, not just for information. As Bullock et al in their handbook The Little Seagull explain, “Quote texts when the wording is worth repeating…” (107).

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Contextualizing the “Gettysburg Address”

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RWS 200 “Stories are equipment for living.” K. Burke

Overview

RWS 200 asks students to learn how Context shapes arguments. Without understanding context, we cannot make sense of words, sentences, and in this case a speech, Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” One the most famous arguments of American writing is Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” needs to be understood in its historical and cultural context. It was written by an American for American ears and eyes.

You will research the context of the “Address,” take notes, and write a roughly two page explanation of the context surrounding the speech.

RWS 200 Assignment Type:

Assignment Type: “Using a group of texts, identify the contexts within which an argument was made—historical, social, intellectual, generic, political, technological context, etc. Explain ways in which that context shaped the argument.”

RWS 200 Learning Outcomes for this assignment:

Analyze a variety of print and digital texts to articulate relationships between an argument’s elements and the contexts within which the argument was created.
Evaluate both print and digital arguments through a process of critical inquiry, examining the arguments in their original contexts and in the context of other arguments in order to discover relationships between text.
Locate, evaluate, and synthesize material from sources related to a public discussion in order to generate and support arguments.
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Compose a variety of texts, including elements of digital and/or non-print text, through a multi-stage recursive process.

Goals:

Along with the above Course Learning Outcomes, this paper has several goals:

Learning how context shapes arguments
Learning how context helps readers understand texts
Practicing research
Practicing note taking
Writing in Academic Style for an academic audience
Citing in Academic Style

Process:

Research the context of Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” Use ONE book from our library. And use a minimum of THREE different articles.
Annotated Bibliography: You will create an annotated bibliography of your sources. Four or more. You are looking for info on the context of the speech, such as:
1. Historical events shaped this speech’s words, phrases, topics?
2. Contemporary events shaped this speech?
3. Occasion, the actual day of the speech? What was the reason for speech?
4. How important was this speech?
5. Audience: who would have been present to hear the speech? Would other people read the speech? Was it recorded? Reprinted later?
Rough Draft: Analyze how the historical and contemporary contexts help explain how and why the text was written.
1. Start you paper simply with one or two sentences.
2. Explain Lincoln’s audience’s expectations and needs.
3. Explain why the speech was written in body paragraphs using sources.
4. End briefly noting how your research reveals the context that shaped Lincoln’s speech.
2 PeerMarks of your peers Rough Drafts
Revised Draft: You will revise your Rough Draft for clarity, grammar, organization, analysis, citing.

Specifications:

Length: 2½ to 3 ½ pages, typed, double spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font, with 1 inch margins.
Use MLA in-text citations for all information you learn from sources.

Works Cited separate page.

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The Purdue OWL gives the following example for a Book:

Davidson, Hilda Ellis. Roles of the Northern Goddess. London:

Routledge, 1998.

Davidson thoroughly examines the major roles filled by the numerous pagan goddesses of Northern Europe in everyday life, including their roles in hunting, agriculture, domestic arts like weaving, the household, and death. The author discusses relevant archaeological evidence, patterns of symbol and ritual, and previous research. He also includes a number of black and white photographs of relevant artifacts.

See The Little Seagull pages 74-78 and 137-46 for updated MLA style. Here is a sample citation for an article found online:

Banerjee, Neela. “Proposed Religion-Based Program for Federal Inmates Is Canceled.” The New York Times, 28 Oct. 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/10/28/us/28prison.html?_r=0. Accessed 4 Feb. 2018.

MacDonald, Susan Peck. “The Erasure of Language.” College

Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 585-625.

Then your summary, about 100 words.

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You can search using this method.

You domain has to be .edu

No magazines

you can use these but if you find better ones

USE MLA