1. Your friend goes to send their paper into Professor Wend. You happen to notice right before they hit send that their paper is titled “paper2!!!!!!!!”. Why is that incorrect?
2. In the following excerpt from the first paper of a paper, what is wrong with it???
BCC Student
4/3/12
Professor Wend
ENG102-103
introductory paper stuff this is a nifty paper with a lot of nifty stuff in it that is swell. Everything is great and I should really get an A on this paper. I should get an A because I have a neat argument, sweet secondary sources backing it, and I deal with opposing viewpoints in a totally rad way.
3. What is wrong, grammatically, with this sentence?
Miller himself argued once that it was “fairly clear”, what his intentions were with the play (45).
4. In regards to the citation below, what is wrong with this?
Miller has offered his own comments on the play. “My intentions were fairly clear about what I was doing with the play” (45). The, what Eisenhower would deem, “The Military Industrial Complex,” a few years later, was clearly on Miller’s mind while he wrote All My Sons.
5. What is wrong with this block quote?
According to him, this concern is shared by the ELO;
“The Electronic Literature Organization is working to deal with this growing concern...Montfort, Wardrip-Fruin, and others offer a variety of solutions for keeping Elit readable. Their recommendations include creating work using open source programs and software, making work for multiple platforms, and supplying comments for code.” (6)
6. In the spring semester of 2016, we are discussing Beowulf for our term papers. This works cited page is missing something very important that needs to be in every eng102 paper in regards to citation, which is unfortunately missing sometimes from student works cited pages.
Carruthers, Leo. "Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance", in Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England, eds. Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, Tatjana Silec. New York: Palgrave, 2011. 139–55.
Chance, Jane. "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother." New Readings on Women in Old English Literature. Eds. Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 248–61.
Irving, Edward B., Jr. "Christian and Pagan Elements." A Beowulf Handbook. Eds. Bjork, Robert E. and John D. Niles. Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 175-192. Print.
7. What is wrong with this works cited page?
Works Cited
Carruthers, Leo. "Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance", in Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England, eds. Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, Tatjana Silec. New York: Palgrave, 2011. 139–55.
Chance, Jane. "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother." New Readings on Women in Old English Literature. Eds. Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 248–61.
Irving, Edward B., Jr. "Christian and Pagan Elements." A Beowulf Handbook. Eds. Bjork, Robert E. and John D. Niles. Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
8.
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.