Principles of composition
Now that Christmas and Carlos Muñoz Day are over, I’m getting ready for my next semester of Principles of Composition (W130). I’m revising course policies … perusing new readings …
… and writing a sample essay.
(I want to suffer what my students suffer.)
IUSB’s English faculty have determined that in each W130 essay, the introductory paragraph must list all of the sources, and each body paragraph must explain how passages from at least two different sources are related to one another. Consequently, these essays are like nothing else I’ve read. They’re their own kind of artform.
Like the sonnet.
Later, I might post my own W130 essay — my opus.
(I want to suffer what my students suffer.)
IUSB’s English faculty have determined that in each W130 essay, the introductory paragraph must list all of the sources, and each body paragraph must explain how passages from at least two different sources are related to one another. Consequently, these essays are like nothing else I’ve read. They’re their own kind of artform.
Like the sonnet.
Later, I might post my own W130 essay — my opus.
But I’m not 100% sure whether I’ll teach the course again, because the contracts still haven’t been issued, and when you’re adjuncting it’s better not to count your chickens.