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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dass Guided Imagery

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

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 9-24 ART OF WRITING VS PERFECTIONISM ; "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet

TODAY'S GOALS [2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses . Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources.

 

REQUIRED: 439-446           Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon selected pages

+  Death in the Afternoon, original ms. selected pages

+ Farewell to Arms summary and endings

REVIEW: 70-2  Perfectionism  AND  DFW on Perfectionism 

MATERIALS TO BE ON EXHIBIT FOR US Death in the Afternoon MS. ; Death in the Afternoon;Mort dans l'après-midi; Tod am Nachmittag Farewell to Arms; Shastra-viday anuvadaka Purushottam Dobe.; Yong bie liao, wu qi / Haimingwei zhu

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YOUR WRITING

HERE is a sample summary of an evaluation of a student's final P1 by the instructor* The essay itself is marked up by the professor using the nine categories and adding and subtracting points according to the rubrics and according to the general "college-level writing" criteria here: Detailed criteria for your print version here (to be turned into the instructor).

BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE FOLLOWING

WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

 

989-990           High School to College Writing Transition

991-992           Researching

993-994           Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism

 

WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART

PHRASES IN BOLD = RUBRICS FOR PEER AND INSTRUCTOR CRITIQUES

O= 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose

+V = 4. Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric

995                  Writing Well is Thinking Well

996-7               Rhetorical Fallacies

998                  Yeats, "Hammer Your Thoughts";  RETHINK REWRITE ALSO ^ [

coherence]

999                  Forster, "Only Connect"  ALSO ^ [coherence]

1000-1001       Creating a Strong Thesis

1002                Structure of a Professional Research Paper

1003                "COMPOSITION," the meaning of    ALSO ^ [coherence]

1004                Introductions and Conclusions        ALSO ^ [coherence]

^ = 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW

1005-1006       Flow and Transitions     ALSO O

1007                COHERENCE, sign of an 'A' paper

1008                Transitional     Expressions

 1009               Focusing on Transitions

W=8. WORD CHOICE

USE THE Oxford English Dictionary:

https://login.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.oed.com%2f

1010-1011       Verbs that Take Prepositions

1012                Rough Guide to Prepositions

P= 7.  PUNCTUATION:

1013-1023       Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons

1024-1025       Quick Guide to Commas

 

DOC= 6. DOCUMENTATION

1026-1029       Chicago Manual of Style

 

W= 8. WORD CHOICE + S= 3. SPECIFICITY: 

1030                Hemingway on Rewriting

1031-1032       Hemingway's Farewell to Arms summary

1033-1056       Hemingway's Farewell to Arms 47 endings

1057                Revisions    Checklist

1058-1059       Saying What You Mean

C= 9. CONCISENESS

1060-1061       Diction and Conciseness   ALSO  W= 8.

1062-1063       Eliminating Wordiness  ALSO  W= 8.

1064                Readability and Clarity  ALSO  W= 8.

1065                Tips for Improving Readability  ALSO  W= 8.

 

P =PROOFREADING

1066-1068       Proofreading

1069                Why spell checkers are not enough

 

LOOKING AHEAD: 10-8; P1 due online