Letters of Transit Matthew Stevenson (Sinclair-Stevenson) Witty, thorough essays about life and travel abroad, seen through the eyes of the US-born travel writer.
(Here's a Guardian timeline and here's a very long but thorough background essay which Brian Cathcart wrote for Granta magazine in 1997).
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on initial journal responses, thoughtful participation in class discussions, accurate group research and presentations, and thoughtful and thorough individual essays assessing how the May 13 , 2003 bombings might affect future interactions between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
In an impressive and thorough-going essay entitled "Popularization and Memory," Alvin Rosenfeld, a professor of English at Indiana University, recounts the development of the Anne Frank phenomenon in the country of her birth.
In 1978, Moorcock did a more thorough takedown in an essay called "Epic Pooh," in which he compares Tolkien and his hobbits to A. A. Milne and his bear.
Thorough analysis of 500 essays (from the 2443 collected over the 2-yr contest) revealed a very interesting finding: Students in 2007 held the same genetics misconceptions as students in 2000 (from a comparable study by the National Assessment of Educational Process), despite the expansion of genetics information and technology that occurred during the same time period.
Juliet Jacques penned a very thorough and very well written 9,000-word 9,000-wordthessay Statesman recently, providing some background to the bickering.
The better universities offer specially tailored induction courses for new Chinese arrivals ranging from tips on shopping and public transport to thorough training in how to write essays and give presentations.
"I could never write anything, for example," he acknowledges, "without a thorough plan, as if these things — essays, articles, reviews, and even whole books — could and should be parsed like equations before they were brought into the world.
The essay demonstrates clearly (and with thorough scholarship) how communicable diseases, or their absence, affected "the making of empires around the earth" (17).
What would you like to say to her or discuss with her? Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on participation in Agree/Disagree activity, thoughtful completion of their timelines, and thorough and thoughtful completion of their personal essays.
