ESSAY TOPIC FOR FINAL EXAM ON DECEMBER 18TH, 2019 FOR LANGUAGE III (2018, 2017, and previous years) STUDENTS

Dear students,  

The essay topic for the final Language III 2018 (and previous years), and for the Language IV 2019 exam on Wednesday, December 18^th, 2019 will be based on Labors of the Heart by Claire Davis.  The topic for the essay is “Contrast Pinky´s life before and after meeting Rose”. You should consider the following points of contrast: A) his unhealthy routine / his healthier routine, B) his views on love, and C) his lack of awareness of the world around him /his increased-or growing awareness of the world around him.

Please read the text very carefully. You will be allowed to have the text with you, but take into account that you should not use the author´s exact words; you should use your own words to report what the author has written. In order to do so, review our notes on paraphrasing and use monolingual and collocations dictionaries.

Don´t forget to review our notes on comparison and contrast, outline layout, and the connectors you should use for the different modes of development. When writing the developmental paragraphs you should take into account that you should first introduce supporting ideas clearly and straightforwardly, then explain them, and finally, illustrate them with evidence or examples from the text. Your developmental paragraphs should have around 200 words each. You should also review our guidelines on introductory and concluding paragraphs.

Please remember that on Monday, December 16^th, and Tuesday, December 17^th we WILL NOT answer any questions related to the essay topic in office hours, nor will we check possible outlines.
If you have already enrolled, and decide not to take the exam, please send us an email through the virtual classroom. 

Kind regards,

Prof. A. Argerich