choose three (3) of the texts we have read this semester and discuss how each text connects to your own experience?
CLT 3378: Ancient Mythology, East and West Spring 2024 Writing Assignment 2: The alien and the familiar, part 2 due Sunday, April 21 at 11:59 pm EDT 1500-1800 words For the core of this assignment you will again choose three (3) of the texts we have read this semester and discuss how each text connects to your own experience. The texts which can be used for this assignment are listed below. • The first text should be the one that seemed (on your first reading) the most alien to you, the least connected to your own experience. • The second text should be the one that seemed (on your first reading) the most familiar to you, the most connected to your own experience. (This doesn’t have to be something you’ve read before this course.) • The third text can be any other text from the list below. Texts which can be discussed Isis and Osiris (selections) The Seeress’ Prophecy The Contendings of Horus and Seth Journey to the West (selections) The Tale of the Two Brothers Beowulf Rigveda (selections) Táin Bó Cúailnge (selections) Mahabharata or other Vedic literature (selections) Pwyll Lord of Dyved Prose Edda (selections) 1. Preparing for your essay Go back and look at the “familiarity surveys” you filled out on Canvas after reading each of these texts. Even if you just took a few notes on each text, these should help you remember how alien (or familiar) each text seemed, and why it seemed that way at the time. CLT 3378 – Spring 2024 Writing Assignment 2 2/4 2. Organizing your essay Your essay must be five (5) paragraphs long: an introduction, three body paragraphs (one for each of the three texts you’re discussing), and a conclusion. Please keep in mind the specified word count, which is higher than that of your previous essay! Introduction This essay focuses on how each of three texts intersects with your own experience, so it might be good to start with something about that experience, including your own cultural background in whatever way it’s relevant to this course. (Please note: you are not being asked to share anything about yourself which you are uncomfortable sharing with others!) You might then say a bit about your experience with other cultures, whether through acquaintances or friends from other cultures, personal travel, media (such as, for example, books, television shows, podcasts, or movies), … or even something as “mundane” as food. This should NOT be identical to the introduction to your earlier essay—you’re not the same person as you were when you wrote it. You might, for example, add something about how the texts from the first part of the course have played into your experience. (In other words, you might draw on your previous conclusion…) Body paragraphs (one for each text) These paragraphs are the real substance of your essay, and each must be on a different text. Why did this text seem particularly alien (or familiar) to you? Try to be as specific as you can—and no matter how specific you are, give at least one example from the text, whether a brief (but accurate) summary or a relevant quotation, which illustrates the alienness or familiarity. If the text seemed alien to you, was there anything in your experience which gave you a way “into” the text, to get past the alien? If it seemed familiar to you in some way, what did it match up with in your own experience? Conclusion (of a sort) In both writing assignments you have applied your own experience to the texts, and in the first assignment you applied one or more texts to your own experience. Now I want you to extend this in a different way. We’ve been introduced to a number of different cultures over the course of the semester: Greek, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Vedic Indian, Germanic (mostly Norse), and, soon, Celtic (Irish and Welsh). Based on the course readings (and not on the internet), which of these cultures seems most similar to the culture you grew up in, whether in the United States (and remember, there really isn’t something like a monolithic “American” culture) or in another country—and why? Similarly, leaving aside the most obvious differences (language, time, place, religion), how does that same culture seem most different—and why? Be sure to give examples from the relevant readings to support your points. (If you grew up in the United States or Europe, please choose something other than Greece!) CLT 3378 – Spring 2024 Writing Assignment 2 3/4 3. Writing your essay At least in theory, this is the easy part, but often it turns out not to be. First of all, keep in mind what you’re being asked to do, and stick to that. You’re not being asked to explain or analyze or interpret the texts themselves, or even to demonstrate your knowledge of them, but to discuss your experience in engaging with them, how alien or familiar they seemed to you—and why. That’s basically it. Begin with a first draft. (In other words, give yourself some time on this assignment.) Get your thoughts down on paper in more or less coherent sentences, and don’t worry about the word count for the moment. Print a copy of the draft, and set it aside for at least an hour or two. After some time has gone by and you’ve managed to put the draft out of your mind, read it, preferably out loud. (That may sound odd, but it does help.) Does it seem clear and coherent to you? Will it seem that way to someone who isn’t you? (When in doubt, ask someone else—not Dr. Smith—to look at it or listen to it.) Do your sentences make sense, both by themselves and in relation to the surrounding sentences? Are you using examples from the texts (whether quotations or summary) which do a good job of illustrating your point(s)? If your sentences don’t make sense, or if they don’t flow more or less clearly and logically from one to the next, revise them so that they do. Next, look at the mechanics (spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence construction) and word choice (that is, whether you’re using the most appropriate words, and using them correctly), and revise again with these in mind. All of these affect your score on the essay. It’s not just your ideas that count, but also how well you express them. 4. Formatting your essay Your essay should be a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx), double spaced, with 12-point font and one-inch margins on the right and left. If you are using a different word processing program, please submit a pdf of your essay instead. Please include the following information at the top of page 1 of your essay: Writing assignment 2 your name CLT 3378 your email address Spring 2024 your word count Before you submit, PROOFREAD! Word processing programs typically come with built-in ways to review your essay for errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. (These are by no means perfect, but they will help!) You should also check that you have spelled proper names correctly or, at the very least, consistently. Remember, the score you receive for your essay will depend in part on spelling, grammar, and punctuation … so PROOFREAD! CLT 3378 – Spring 2024 Writing Assignment 2 4/4 5. Submitting your essay Submit your essay by uploading it to the Turnitin link for Writing Assignment 2. This link will be posted on the Modules page of the course Canvas site, and you will be able to submit your essay beginning at 8 am on Sunday, April 14 (one weeks before it is due). Don’t wait until the last minute (that is, less than an hour before the deadline) to try submitting your essay—that is almost a guarantee that you will have problems submitting it. If you do run into problems with Turnitin, please look at the suggestions listed on “Trouble submitting your paper?”: https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/turnitin-website/student/submitting-a-paper/troublesubmitting-your-paper.htm Late submissions Essays submitted without Dr. Smith’s permission after 11:59 pm EDT on Sunday, April 21 are subject to a 5-point deduction for lateness. Essays submitted without his permission after 11:59 pm EDT on Tuesday, April 23 are subject to a 10-point deduction. No essays will be accepted without his permission after 11:59 pm EDT on Thursday, April 25. If you will not be able to get your essay submitted by the deadline, contact Dr. Smith as soon as you realize this. 6. What comes next? The score for your essay should be posted by the evening of Friday, May 3.
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