Read and respond in your notebook to the piece by Ellen Ruppel Shell on Mad Cow Disease and either the Joe Klein piece on Clinton or the essay on Stephen King in the current New Yorker. Bring in an ad for a job that you might apply for or a graduate school application. Continue work on essay 3. The assignment will be posted on the Connect network. Bring early drafts of the paper, along with the Sept. 21 and 28 New Yorkers , to class.
Journals are due.
I will mark your essays in Connect. Net, and I'd like to make sure you can collect your essays with my comments. You will also be able to read your graded third essay in Connect. Meet with me in MC 304. Choose one of the articles in the Oct. 26 - Nov. 2 issue of The New Yorker and be prepared to make a presentation on the author's rhetorical choices.