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The Theme of Peace: This semester, our theme is peace. It's fitting to begin, then, with an exploration of the idea that you will develop through the semester by thinking, reading and researching, talking with people, imagining, and writing.
Writing and Research Assignment. Write an essay exploring the idea of peace, its meaning, importance, and value in your life, in the lives of people you know, and in the world. In framing your idea, be sure to look inward to your own self and people you know and outward to the common life you share with others inhabiting this planet (community, region, nation, world). Don't try to cover the whole field; just begin with what interests you right now in terms of your experience and values as well as your educational, career, and life goals. Examine your own experiences and observations, those that have taught you something about peace. Also use information you collect through research to learn more and expand your understanding of the concept. Use at least three outside sources, quote from each of these in your paper, and document them in your Works-Cited page. Include information about and a quotation from a Nobel Peace Prize winner (see links to Nobel Websites at bottom) as one source of knowledge, and use information from one or more other Websites on our PEACE Page. Talking with someone you know (examples: a family member, friend, neighbor, co-worker, boss, classmate, teacher) who can help you to further explore the meaning, value, and importance of peace, can help you make decisions about what aspect of peace you will write about in this paper; you may end up quoting one of these "live" sources, so be sure to take notes. Attach a photograph of yourself to your essay; you may, if you wish, also include another photograph, an image that represents peace to you.
Minimum Length for the Essay:
Approximately 1000 words. Use your word processing program to count
the words so you can include that information in your heading. Count only the
words in your essay itself, not your headings or Works Cited list.
Manuscript Format, Title,
Works Cited, Copies, Evaluation, Etc. See
PAPER GUIDELINES.
Special Instructions: (1) On the last page of the essay or on the Works Cited page, tape a photograph of yourself, with your full name below it (if there are other people in the picture, identify them), and provide a little context for the picture (when and where it was taken, etc.). [Optional: tape to this page another image representing peace, and write 1-2 sentences to clarify to your reader how this image represents peace to you).] (2) Include a Works Cited list of at least three items from which you quoted and otherwise used information about peace. (3) Turn in three copies of the whole paper. When you make your copies, be sure to include your picture(s) and your Works Cited page.
Audience. Like all major papers and reports in English 201, your writing is a public document so do not include personal information that you do not want your classmates to know. Your audience includes me and your classmates.
What is the purpose of this assignment? Content: To give you an opportunity to learn more about what peace means to you and others, to open up to new ways of thinking about peace, to share what you’ve learned from others and from your own self-reflection about peace, to get a head start on your thinking about peace for the whole semester. Skill: To give you practice in critical thinking activities to improve your skills in listening, in discussing, in reading, and in writing about a topic. To help you develop research as well as academic and workplace skills. To give you some feedback on your writing early in the course.
Examples? This is a revision of an assignment used in the past; you can consult a SAMPLER page to read a successful student paper from previous semester; this student's assignment asked for less research and more personal, introductory information; but it is on the same topic and serves as an example of a well written first paper in English 201.
Research Links: See PEACE page, especially Nobel Peace Prize | Nobel Peace Center | Nobel Peace Prize Winners | Fetzer Dialogues with Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
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