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The Nature of Horror by Noël Carroll

Writing In “The Nature of Horror,” Noël Carroll defines the art- horror monster as an “extraordinary” being who is “threatening and impure” and “categorically interstitial, contradictory, or incomplete.” We’ve also discussed various types of monsters in class. Now it is time to create your horror monster. Imagine your monster and describe it in detail in […]

RIP Exercise – Monster (2) proposal

Writing In this proposal, you want to fully describe your project’s rhetorical situation; here are some questions to get you started: — who is the rhetor? — what is the ethos being adopted by the rhetor, what is the purpose and style of the rhetor? — what’s your message going to be? What do you […]

Book Precis “Dead Wake” Book Review

Humanities Writing a book precis is a different task than writing a book review.The most important aspect of a book precis is its brevity and concise writing.The following information will be required for writing a book precis for this course: The precis will be limited to one-page.Normal page margins (1-inch) will be used and text […]

ENGL120 Cuyamaca George Orwell’s Why I Write and A Childhood Spent essays

Other Annotation Worksheets and Academic Summaries We’re are continuing this week, reading attached to Essay 1. When you are reading I want to you catalogue your own responses and observations (part of the annotation process) and look closely and consider the following: What kind of stories is the author sharing? Why do you think he […]