Fairy Tales

How are everyone’s essays going? Is anyone planning on rewriting an essay? What are you going to change if you do? I’m not sure yet if I’ll have time, I’m going in to talk to Dara tomorrow I think. If I do a rewrite, it will probably mostly be structural changes and some content stuff. 

Is anyone else looking at this in their review? The stories in The Bloody Chamber turn traditional gender roles or expectations upside down and many feature strong female protagonists. I’m not sure if my essay would still be a “review” if I focused solely on this issue (actually what I’m writing about is the undermining of [...]

There’s an important typo in the previous email: final portfolios are due not on Friday, Dec. 15th (which doesn’t exist) but Friday, Dec. 14th.
Your portfolio should include the following, in a folder or large envelope:

your draft and revision of each essay (preferably the commented-upon copies), including your revision of Essay #4;
an end-of-term reflection (see below); [...]

I know the new essay isn’t due until Friday, but I’m starting it now and having some problems. I think calling it a review is making me hesitate a little bit. I don’t know what it really means to write a review. My idea is fine, but does the language have to be different? I [...]

First off, another “thank you” to all of today’s presenters — particularly for their patience with the various (ahem) logistical difficulties.   I’ve been promised that the laptop and the lunches will arrive before 11 without fail 0n Thursday, so we’ll see.
One other lesson: bring your PowerPoint presentation on a flash drive so that you’re ready [...]

I think researching was the hardest part of the research essay. I could not really choose a thesis until I had research, but having a specific thesis or an idea about what I wanted to do would have helped with narrowing down my research. I guess thought that is just part of research. We are [...]