https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9EuKbVuLtY
735 words minimum
751 words maximum
Moment/scene is no longer than five to seven minutes
Moment/scene takes place in one setting, i.e. starts in kitchen and ends in kitchen
Moment/scene is retold in irst person singular
Begins in medias res
Ends with an action that SHOWS the change
Required Elements
•amplification/anadiolosisx
•amplification/anadiolosis
•concrete details (all three types)—
•descriptive
•specific geographic location
•brand name (two brand name items)
•metaphor or simile
•personification
•sensory details
•at least one detail pertaining to each of the five senses
•all details pertaining to the physiological, NOT the figurative
Dialogue is not required, but there is a three-line maximum.
I’m using the acronym PEP as a substitute for Personal Essay Project
•The PEP has two parts.
•Part One is the PEP narrative essay that we’ve been workshopping these past few weeks.
•Part Two of the PEP is an annotated bibliography, the focus of which is the underlying situation/theme(s) that drive(s)the narrative.
For example, for the narrative essay that I read in class about a mother and daughter in Starbucks, wherein the daughter realizes that she can no longer emulate a mother she loves but who is destroying herself by way of a profound eating disorder might have sources about…
1. dysmorphic body image
2. societal pressures in regard to beauty and youth
3. parentification
4. Mother-Daughter relationships
5. others that would be discovered on the way to searching for sources speaking
to those listed above. (Also, listen to the MP3 titled “There’s No Place Like
Home”)
•Number of sources = four
•Number of citannotations that need to be great = four
•Number of sources that need to be scholarly (and be marked as scholarly) = one
•Number of sources that need to come from the ASU libraries = all
•Number of corresponding disciplines = There is no disciplines requirement
•In every other way the PEP annotated bibliography aligns with the structure, style,
requirements of the ABP. (Refer, then, to the resources at the ABP module for
reminders as to how to create an excellent PEP annotated bibliography.)
Added Note Re: the PEP Annotated Bibliography
In regard to the four sources for the PEP AB (annotated bibliography)– if we use the Starbucks paper as an example–all four sources could be about parentification or one could be about parentification and three could be about mother-daughter relationships or…
In short, the four sources don’t have to be about the same aspect of or issue related to the situation you have chosen to write about.
(The goal,–a lofty one, perhaps– is seeing that research can be interesting as well as meaningful.)
The Two Parts of PEP: Details (formerly at Announcements)
Both halves of the two-part PEP project must be completed to pass the course.
To simplify the submission of both halves of PEP, there will be a submission portal for each half.
At the PEP Essay portal, one will submit AS ONE DOCUMENT two versions of the PEP essay. The first page or pages will be a pristine/unmarked version of one’s essay, and the next pages will be the same PEP essay with all of the required elements underlined and labeled.
Additionally, if one wishes to employ artful fragments, those intended/claimed fragments must be underlined. Otherwise, the fragments will be considered accidental, born from not recognizing that a group of words is not yet a sentence. (It’s also detrimental to mark as fragments groups of words that are not fragments–that are sentences.) One doesn’t need to mark fragments in dialogue (if one has used dialogue).
At the PEP Annotated Bibliography (AB) portal, one will submit one copy of their PEP AB.
Again, one needs to submit both halves of PEP to be considered as having submitted a PEP.
The grade earned for both halves of PEP will be entered as one grade but twice. (The grade is holistic.) So, for example, if one receives a “B” for the project as a whole, the letter grade “B” will be recorded twice.
To determine one’s semester grade, then, one will take the numerical value of the gradebook objective participation grade, add it to the numerical values of the ABP and the two halves of PEP, and divide by four:
Determining Semester Grade.jpg
ASU Scale.jpg
See Page 2 of syllabus for more details.