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Freshman Foundations 100 Paper #1 Instructions Al Drake. Office: 231 Wilkinson, MW 2:15-3:15 | 714-434-1612 Formal Prompt: Choose one episode* and write about what it tells us of the character/s involved -- for example, their motivations, their qualities, their interest in the poem's action, and their connections to / relations with other characters. Informal Suggestions: Email me or come to an office hour with the episode you're interested in, and I'll reply with some ideas and questions that should help you start the process of writing the paper. *By "episode," I mean a brief section of a book in the Odyssey, one that you can easily locate as having a beginning and ending. A few examples would be O's recounting the the Phaeacians of any one of his tales (Books 9-12) -- the Cyclops story, Circe, etc. Later in the book, there are O's various encounters with those he had left behind on Ithaca -- Eumaeus, Telemachus, Penelope, etc., his dealings with the arrogant suitors, his and Telemachus' stern handling of the faithless women, etc. But there are many episodes in Homer's epic -- so just choose any brief section you like, and if you happen to like a very long episode, consider breaking it into some easily identifiable sub-section, taking care to explain to your reader that you're focusing on part of a larger episode. The required rough draft for this paper is due in class Wednesday of Week 4. (September 18th), and the final draft will be due Wednesday of Week 6 (October 2nd), as indicated on the syllabus. Please look over some of the materials on writing available via hyperlinks on the "Guides" page. "Deductive Essays" is particularly recommended because in it I comment on the basics about structure and purpose in college papers. Another set of handouts deals with how to introduce and cite a literary text properly -- that is certainly something every writer needs to know.
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