{"id":848,"date":"2019-08-28T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/?page_id=848"},"modified":"2019-08-28T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:45:59","slug":"week-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/the-postcolonial-course\/week-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7: Rebellion\/\/Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tue. 10\/17<\/strong>\u00a0Albert Camus, <em>The Rebel<\/em>, selections (.pdf).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>What it says\/what it does<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An effective way of understanding the structural function in a text is to describe what each paragraph says and does. A \u2018what it says\u2019 statement is a summary of the paragraph\u2019s content\u2013\u2013the paragraph\u2019s stated or implied topic sentence. A \u2018what it does\u2019 statement describes the paragraph\u2019s purpose or function within the essay: for example, \u2018Provides evidence for the author\u2019s first main reason,\u2019 \u2018Summarizes an opposing view,\u2019 \u2018Provides statistical data to support a point,\u2019 or \u2018Uses an analogy to clarify the idea in the previous paragraph.\u2019 Using this strategy, produce a reverse-outline of Camus\u2019s \u201cIntroduction\u201d to <em>The Rebel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs. 10\/19<\/strong>\u00a0 Project Proposals (3-minute presentation that introduces the class to research)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(required meeting with me during office hours to discuss your intended research)<br \/>\nSee Timothy Corrigan\u2019s <em>A Short Guide to Writing about Film<\/em>, 9<sup>th<\/sup> edition, for additional writing strategies and conventions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rhetorician,\u201d writes Kenneth Burke, \u201cis like one voice in a dialogue. Put several such voices together, with each voicing its own special assertion, let them act upon one another in co-operative competition, and you get a dialectic that, properly developed, can lead to views transcending the limitations of each\u201d (\u201cRhetoric\u2014Old and New\u201d). To achieve such transcendence, one must (in the words of Joseph Harris), \u201crespond to the work of others in a way that is both generous and assertive\u201d (1). Despite the fact that an abstract is quite brief, about 250 words, it must do almost as much work as the multi-page article that follows it. There are a number of required elements to any successful abstract which must be stylistically combined to create an engaging piece of prose for your intended audience (in this case, an anthology editor). This means providing a bit of background information\u2013\u2013what is the \u2018gap\u2019 in current <em>Star Wars <\/em>scholarship that you hope to fill? What is your original argument? What approach will you take in your textual analysis? And what are the implications of your research?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tue. 10\/17\u00a0Albert Camus, The Rebel, selections (.pdf). What it says\/what it does An effective way of understanding the structural function in a text is to describe what each paragraph says and does. A \u2018what it says\u2019 statement is a summary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/the-postcolonial-course\/week-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"parent":738,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-848","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/848\/revisions\/884"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/postcolonialstarwars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}