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English
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Unit 3: American Constructions of Irish Identity
Writing Spotlight: Ethos & Active
Voice
Unit
3 project:
Purpose: to convince your audience of your creative argument's
validity
Audience: insiders,
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 Focus: organization, concision, active voice
Take the outline you created for Feeder 3B,
along with the comments received by your peers, and shape a substantial
essay containing your strongest prose, your most convincing voice, your most
proficient use of rhetoric, and
your most creative impulses. Put together a paper that presents original, unexpected connections
and ideas.
Your4-5 page paper will consider issues of representation as you engage
a series of images that represent certain constructions of
Irish culture and identity by producers (film directors, advertisers, artists)
of American culture. 2-5 of these
images will
be screen-captured
by you as you watch (on your laptop) one of the three American films on reserve
in the undergraduate library
(The
Quiet Man, Michael
Collins, The Devil's Own), and you will also use 1-3 images drawn
from the course
gallery you helped create. Your analysis of the film should focus
on static images captured with the image-capture function in your laptop's
DVD player. While your discussion of film images will necessarily engage theme
and issues of characterization, you should foreground your analysis of static
images, relegating such related elements
as dialogue,
soundtrack,
pacing, and editing to the periphery of your argument.
Your paper should work
within a humanities mindset, applying an interpretive
schema to
the images you select for consideration. I recommend creating and
referencing an image set of no fewer than three and no more than five images.
Your paper should reference at least three secondary sources (film criticism,
art history texts, journal articles on advertising, etc.), all of which should
be included in your Works Cited page. Follow MLA guidelines for an essay that
does not
include a separate title page (your name, my name, the course name and date
should all be on the first page, up against the left margin). Include a title,
and make sure you also have an appendix at the end which includes all images
referenced.
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Draft Workshop: Unit Project 3
Assess
the work of the 3 students whose names lie beneath your own in the
list. Send it to
yourself simultaneously
and open it to insure that the attachment actually went through
and is readable.
For instance, Rhyn will send her paper to Amanda, Sandeep, and Rachel.
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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Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu