Exploratory Essay;Banned books.<\/p>\n
Purpose: to analyze sources in preparation for the Research Paper
\nGuide: use pages 35-41 in your Writing Arguments textbook
\nTasks:
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Read the two articles regarding banned books.
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Refer to page 35 as an overview and pages 36-41, specifically the marginal notes, to guide you in your exploratory writing.
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Utilize the library and\/or library\u2019s database to find at least 3 more scholarly sources (no Wikipedia or other sources that are not credible).
\na.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0More credible sources usually end in .gov, .edu, .org, etc. if referring to a website; the author\u2019s credentials will be listed on the inside cover or at the beginning if referring to a book, article, or journal.
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Type a 3-5 page paper analyzing your sources.
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Use APA formatting only.
\na.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Refer to your Longman Handbook as a guide (pages 416-437 for in-text citations; pages 438-449 for formatting a sample paper)
\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Follow the \u201cRubric for Paper Assignments\u201d in the back of your course syllabus.
\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Proofread your paper before submitting it.
\na.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Communications Skills and Writing Lab (Wheatley 326)
\nb.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Writing Center (Nicholson Center 427)
\nc.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Peer(s)
\nd.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tutor(s)
\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Print out your paper.
\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Post your paper to Blackboard by doing the following:
\na.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click on the assignment \u201cPaper #1\u201d under Week\/Unit
\nb.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click on \u201cBrowse My Computer\u201d under \u201cAssignment Submission\u201d DO NOT TYPE A SUMBISSION DIRECTLY INTO BLACKBOARD! YOU MUST ATTACH A FILE OF THE ASSIGNMENT!
\nc.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Check the box verifying that you agree to post your assignment.
\nd.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click Submit.<\/p>\n
BOOKSHELF
\nDarkness Too V1s1b1e
\nContemporary fiction for teens is rife with explicit abuse, violence and depravity. Why
\nis this considered a good idea
\nBy MEGHAN COX GURDON
\nJune 4, 2011
\nAmy Freeman, a 46-year-old mother of three, stood recently in the young-adult section of her local
\nBarnes & Noble, in Bethesda, Md., feeling thwarted and disheartened.
\nShe had popped into the bookstore to pick up a welcome-home gift for her 13-year-old, who had been
\naway. Hundreds of lurid and dramatic covers stood on the racks before her, and there was, she felt,
\nnothing, not a thing, that I could imagine giving my daughter. It was all vampires and suicide and self-
\nmutilation, this dark, dark stuff.” She left the store empty-handed. I
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\nJournal Community , How dark IS contemporary fictlon for teens Darker than
\nwhen you were a child, my dear: 80 dark that kidnapping
\nand pederasty and incest and brutal beatings are now just
\ni part of the run of things in novels directed, broadly
\nspeaking, at children from the ages of 12 to 18.
\nPathologies that went undescribed in print 40 years ago,
\nthat were still only sparingly outlined a generation ago, are
\nnow spelled out in stomach-clenching detail. Profanity that would get a song or movie branded with a
\nparental warning is, in young-adult novels, so commonplace that most reviewers do not even remark
\nupon it.
\nif books show us the world, teen fiction can be like a hall of fun-house mirrors, constantly reflecting back
\nhideously distorted portrayals of what life is. There are of course exceptions, but a careless young
\nreader-or one who seeks out depravity-will find himself surrounded by images not of joy or beauty but
\nof damage, brutality and losses of the most horrendous kinds.
\nNow, whether you care if adolescents spend their time immersed in ugliness probably depends on your
\nphilosophical outlook. Reading about homicide doesn’t turn a man into a murderer; reading about
\nif cheating on exams won’t make a kid break the honor code. But the calculus that many parents make is
\nless crude than that: it has to do with a child’s happiness, moral development and tenderness of heart.
\nEntertainment does not merely gratify taste, after all, but creates it.
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