English 11.67
Unit 3: American Constructions of Irish Identity
Writing Spotlight: Ethos & Active Voice

feeder 3A / feeder 3B

Feeder 3A: image analysis

Purpose: creative, cogent analysis of one image from three different disciplinary perspectives
Audience: an "outsider," non-professional audience unfamiliar with the image
Writing Focus: employing active verbs whenever possible

This 2-3 page essay will provide a brief opportunity to approach a given cultural product (in this case, an image) from three different disciplinary perspectives, employing each disciplines appropriate language/discourse and approaches in a single essay.

Create a detailed, well-organized analysis of one of the images collected at our course gallery. Your essay should approach the selected image from, in turn, the perspective of: 1) the social sciences: an anthropologist or sociologist interested in cultural history and representative artifacts; 2) the humanities: an art teacher employing an interpretive schema that explores the image's possible symbolism; and 3) the natural sciences: a scientist preoccupied with such physical, empirically verifiable and measurable factors as the image's use of light and shadow, the physiological reaction predictably evoked in the viewer of such an image (given its comic or terrifying content, for instance), or perhaps the image's aging material elements (e.g. crumbling paint, fading inks, etc.). For additional ideas about the variables that distinguish these three disciplines from one another, remember to look back over the Writing Center's helping guildelines entitled Writing for Specific Fields. Also, remember the St. Martin's Handbook's introductions to these disciplines.

Though your paper will not include a Works Cited page this time around, you should include an appendix with a clear rendering of the analyzed image.

Draft Workshop: Fdr 3A

• Did the author choose an appropriate image from the gallery, an image that suggests an American configuration of the Irish character/person?
• Does the author avoid passive voice and employ active verbs whenever possible?
• Does the author distinguish clearly and successfully between three different disciplinary approaches across subsequent paragraphs?
• Does the paper include an appendix?
• Does the paper follow MLA format?

Assess the work of 3-4 of the students IN YOUR PEER-REVIEW GROUP. As you send it to your 3-4 peers, send it to yourself simultaneously and open it to insure that the attachment actually went through and is readable.

For instance, Kirsten will send her paper to Justin, Jake and Jordyn, and will in turn assess their work.

Kirsten Ahlstrom (kahlstro@email.unc.edu)
Victoria Allen (allenva@email.unc.edu)
Rhyn Chung (rchung@email.unc.edu)
Amanda Corner (corner@email.unc.edu)
Sandeep Daiya (daiya@email.unc.edu)
Rachel Dent (rdent@email.unc.edu)
Justin Dobies (new) (dobies@email.unc.edu)
"Corey" (Chris) Eaton (cceaton@email.unc.edu)
Richard Haywood (haywoodr@email.unc.edu)
Erin Jones (reneejo@email.unc.edu)
Katie Lancaster (unckatie@email.unc.edu)
Simone Martin (srmartin@email.unc.edu)
Caitlin McShane (cmcshane@email.unc.edu)
Shannon Morrison (shannonm@email.unc.edu)
Jordyn Saunders (jasaunde@email.unc.edu)
Matt Scarborough (mtnbikermateo@yahoo.com)
Whitney Scarborough (wscarbor@email.unc.edu)
Michelle Sutton (mdsutton@email.unc.edu)
" Jake" (Jacob) Wilson (wilsonjb@email.unc.edu)

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Feeder 3B: outline of Unit 3 project

Purpose: to think through every claim you will make in the paper and organize supporting evidence and details before writing the paper itself
Audience: American college students familiar with Irish culture and history who are majoring in the humanities. This audience already knows some basic information, and will be intrinsically interested in your project.
Writing Foci: organization and an arguable, well-supported thesis

You will create a highly detailed outline of what will become your Unit 3 project paper, an outline that lays out every claim you will make in your paper, complete with supporting examples, anecdotes and references. This means all research will have been completed, and your argument thoroughly reasoned. This is basically a tight construction of your paper, but with Roman Numerals (or bullets) and sentence fragments instead of your sharpest, paragraphed prose.

Your 3-5 page outline should include at its head a very clearly written thesis statement that matches and anticipates the outline which follows. At the close of the paper, you will include a Works Cited page listing all sources referenced.

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Draft Workshop: Fdr 3B

• Does . . .

Assess the work of 3-4 of the students IN YOUR PEER-REVIEW GROUP. As you send it to your 3-4 peers, send it to yourself simultaneously and open it to insure that the attachment actually went through and is readable.

For instance, Kirsten will send her paper to Justin, Jake and Jordyn, and will in turn assess their work.

Kirsten Ahlstrom (kahlstro@email.unc.edu)
Victoria Allen (allenva@email.unc.edu)
Rhyn Chung (rchung@email.unc.edu)
Amanda Corner (corner@email.unc.edu)
Sandeep Daiya (daiya@email.unc.edu)
Rachel Dent (rdent@email.unc.edu)
Justin Dobies (new) (dobies@email.unc.edu)
" Corey" (Chris) Eaton (cceaton@email.unc.edu)
Richard Haywood (haywoodr@email.unc.edu)
Erin Jones (reneejo@email.unc.edu)
Katie Lancaster (unckatie@email.unc.edu)
Simone Martin (srmartin@email.unc.edu)
Caitlin McShane (cmcshane@email.unc.edu)
Shannon Morrison (shannonm@email.unc.edu)
Jordyn Saunders (jasaunde@email.unc.edu)
Matt Scarborough (mtnbikermateo@yahoo.com)
Whitney Scarborough (wscarbor@email.unc.edu)
Michelle Sutton (mdsutton@email.unc.edu)
" Jake" (Jacob) Wilson (wilsonjb@email.unc.edu)

Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu