English 101 Essay #1 That Particular Book
Our first essay in English will hearken back to your early school days. In a well-developed, thoughtful personal narrative, I would like you to write about a book that impacted you in some way. By "impacted" I mean, how has this book strongly affirmed something positive in you, challenged your way of thinking about an issue, offered information you were unaware of at the time. You are free to use children's books as well as adolescent and high school level texts. I would encourage you to write about books that were not required for your classes, although they could have been a book choice as part of an assignment.
Please include a meaningful quote or two and respond to them using in-text citation, MLA Documentation.
To successfully complete this assignment, students will:
1) check out a copy of the text for citation and reflection,
2) include a Reference page,
2) meet the minimum word count of 1000 words,
3) use the revision/workshop process to improve your paper,
4) follow the word processing guidelines provided in your syllabus.
Please refer to the tabs MLA Citation for how to format your References page. Use the Book Reviews tab above for information about how to find more out about your book.
Books are located on all floors of the Livingston Lord Library:
1st floor -- Reference Books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs)
1st floor -- Popular Reading - Selected books that are currently popular.
2nd floor --- Curriculum books that teacher's use in the K-12 school system; Children's and Young Adult books
3rd and 4th floor -- General collection
To locate a book, use Dragon Onesearch found on the Library Web Site:
https://www.mnstate.edu/library/
Library Map is located at: https://www.mnstate.edu/contentassets/e305a20916df499c90e00d79ad984ab5/library-floor-plan-map.jpg/
Read call numbers line by line:
Read the first line in alphabetical order:
A, B, BF, C, D ... L, LA, LB, LC, M, ML ...
Read the second line as a whole number:
1, 2, 3, 45, 100, 101, 1000, 2000, 2430 …
The third line is a combination of a letter and numbers.
Read the letter alphabetically
Read the number as a decimal, for example .M3 = .3
(Some call number have more than one combination letter-number line.)
This is the year the book was published.
Chronological order: 1985, 1987, 1991, 1992 . . .
Broad Library of Congress system breakdown:
https://libguides.keuka.edu/findaphysicalitem/callnumbers
