{"id":5379,"date":"2012-08-15T13:57:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?page_id=5379"},"modified":"2012-08-30T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:52:54","slug":"from-the-instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/journal\/past-issues\/issue-4\/danis\/from-the-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our final paper for WR 150: &#8220;Modern and Contemporary American Poetry&#8221; builds upon the analytical, argumentative, and research skills introduced in the first two papers. In order to enlarge the scope and complexity of their arguments, students are asked to conduct a more substantial exploration of multiple poems by any poet of their choosing or a longer poem such as Whitman&#8217;s <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em>. Similar to Papers 1 and 2, students must find their motivation for writing in the arguments of others; however, this time students are not provided any exhibit or argument sources for their consideration. Paper 3 required students to locate and engage with all source material independently. Beyond this, the paper had to be 2500-3000 words in length and use at least five sources (two of which had to be argument sources). Strong papers featured a compelling and researched prelude, a multi-source stasis, exemplary usage of poetic terminology, and a purposeful usage of background and theory sources.<\/p>\n<p>George Danis&#8217;s final essay &#8220;The World of Eliot\u2019s Waste Land&#8221; is an incredibly sophisticated and ambitious argument about perhaps the most difficult and complex American poem ever written. What is most remarkable about George&#8217;s essay is his engagement with long-standing literary critics such as Cleanth Brooks and D. C. Fowler; his usage of a variety of source material from Marcel Duchamp&#8217;s &#8220;Nude Descending a Staircase&#8221; to Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s <em>Beyond Good and Evil<\/em>; and his poetic analysis, the breadth and depth of which any scholar of T. S. Eliot&#8217;s work would find persuasive and illuminating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 JASON TANDON<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our final paper for WR 150: &#8220;Modern and Contemporary American Poetry&#8221; builds upon the analytical, argumentative, and research skills introduced in the first two papers. In order to enlarge the scope and complexity of their arguments, students are asked to conduct a more substantial exploration of multiple poems by any poet of their choosing or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":5302,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5379\/revisions\/5674"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}