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FYS:ScienceFictionFYS101

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Goals Thesereactionpapersserveasanopportunityforyouto…• practiceandimproveyourwriting.• enhanceyourabilitytoanalyzeassumptionsandevidenceauthorsandBilmmakersuseinmakingtheirargumentsortellingtheirstories.

• prepareforwritingyourresearchpaperandmediapresentation.

Resources • ForbiddenPlanet(1956)• StarTrek-ByAnyOtherName(1968)• TheRoadNotTakenbyHarryTurtledove(1985)

Assignment SelectonespeciBicmomentorsceneorsequencefromeachoftheresourcesnotedaboveandwriteareactionpaperintegratingthem.Whilethisisbynomeansanexhaustivelist,herearesometopicsyoumayconsiderwritingaboutinyourreactionpaper:• Whatweresomeofthemostinterestingaspectsofthesequenceandwhy?• Wasthereanythingespeciallyremarkableabouttheirstyleorpresentation?• Didthosemomentschangeyourmindaboutanything?• WhatdothesescenesremindyouofinTV,Bilms,andliterature?UsefocusedandspeciBicexamplesfromalloftheresourcesinmakingyourpoints.Pleasedonotwriteaboutprimitivespecialeffects,astheyareamongtheleastinterestingaspectsoftheseworks.Pleasedonotsummarizetheplot,I’veseenit.

Format YourBirstversionmustbenolessthanthree(3)pagesinlength,double-spaced,ina12-pointfontthatyoulike,withone-inchmargins.Therevisedversionmustbenomorethantwo(2)pages.Putyourname,thedate,andaninterestingpapertitlepaperonthetopofBirstpage.

DetailsandGrading

• Content‣ Didyouexpressyourcentralideasinsimplesentences?‣ Didyouexpressyourownthoughtsandarguments?

• Organization‣ Doestheintroductionprovidefocus?‣ Doestheconclusionsummarizetheauthor’sideasaswellasyours?‣ DoestheconclusionoffersomeBinalperspectiveorconclusion?‣ Isthepapereasytofollow?

- DoesirBlownaturally,withclearandlogicaltransitionsbetweenparagraphs?

- Doeseachparagraphhaveacentralidea?‣ AreyoursourcesclearlyidentiBied?

• GrammarandStyle‣ Isthereanygrammaticalorspelingerrors?‣ IsthewritingstyleclearandFOJ(freeofjargon)?‣ Areyourwordchoicesnon-abstruse?

• Formatting‣ DoesthepaperconformtotheformattingspeciBications?

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FYS:ScienceFictionFYS101

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Submi>ng Printoutyourpaperandhanditinatthebeginningoftheclassinwhichitisdue.Seeoursyllabusforduedates.Whensubmittingtherevisionyoumustincludetheoriginalversionstapledtotheback.

CommonIssuesandResources

• Watchoutformissingcommas.Lookupusageguidelinesforcommausage.‣ http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html‣ http://www.bartleby.com/116/402.html

• Watchoutforbadcapitalization.Lookupcapitalizationguidelines.‣ http://www.mit.edu/course/21/21.guide/capitals.htm‣ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/592/01/

• Don’tbewordy.Ifyoucanpossiblysayitmoresimply,pleasedoso.• Usetheactivevoice.I.e.,“IshallalwaysremembermyfirstvisittoAltair4.”ispreferableto“MyfirstvisittoAltair4willalwaysberememberedbyme.”‣ http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5.html

• Morethananythingelse,proofreadyourwork.Readitaloudsothatyoucanhearyourselfandgetsomeideaofhowitsoundsandhowitflows.Betteryet,getsomeoneelsetoreaditforyou.(SiriandCortanawilldojustfineifyoucan’tfindahuman.)‣ http://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/editing-and-proofreading/

• WehaveanawesomeWritingCenter.Usethem!http://www.marist.edu/writingcenter/