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In Conversation with Richards…

In Conversation with Richards…. Ts English / Fall 2013. Course Goals. CONVERSATION: To use research and analysis  to situate your argument in relation to a larger  academic conversation.

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In Conversation with Richards…

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  1. In Conversation with Richards… Ts English / Fall 2013

  2. Course Goals CONVERSATION: To use research and analysis to situate your argument in relation to a larger academic conversation. • “use research… to situate your argument” – use of secondary texts should be purposeful. Other people’s claims can help you to make your own. • “in relation to a larger conversation” – your own claim should be distinct from your sources, and part of your mission is to explain how it is related to or derived from work that has come before you.

  3. Terms • Primary Text: Text that is being analyzed • Secondary Text: Text which is helping you to perform your analysis • A text which can be a primary text in one context or investigation can be a secondary text in another. Clarity on how it is being used is important.

  4. Richards’s Argument • The terms which we have used to evaluate our own essays are also useful for understanding/evaluating the work of others. • Evidence/Analysis • Argument/Claim • Line of Inquiry

  5. Richard’s Argument • Use the worksheet to “dissect” the argument according to the terms of our course goals. • Group 1: 441-442 • Group 2: 442-444 • Group 3: 444-445 • Group 4: 446-447 • Group 5: 448-450 • Group 6: 451-452 • Group 7: 452-454

  6. Richards’s “Conversation” Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last. It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengance. And yet, unless my senses decieve me, the old centuries had and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill. (41).

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