English Comp. 1301 --Paper 1 Assignment

[Your Last Name ] 1 [Your Name Here ] Scott Cheney ENGL 1301 8 September 2016 Learning and the Mundane: A Narrative [Delete and add creative title] In 2013, Professor Ian Bogost wrote an article for the Atlantic called “The McRib: Enjoy Your Symptom.” In the article he describes the sandwich as “perverse” and ends by saying “The purpose of the McRib is to make the McNugget seem normal.” Bogost believes that object s not only hold meaning but also that they help ex plain human desire and development. (In fact, the article he wrote was two thousand words long !) For this paper, you wi ll be forced to think about an everyday object or game that has somehow affected y our life and learning. Choose an object or game that informs (or has informed) your learning in some way. The object should be truly mundane: a rubber band, a garbage bag, a cardboard box, an eraser. The game can be simple (hopscotch or Uno) or complex (Call of Duty or Settlers of Catan). Introduce your reader to the object and your experience with it in narrative form; don’t write abstractly about all erasers or how everyone loves Old Maid . Instead, write a story (a narrative is just that — a story!) about the object or game and how it affected your learn ing . Use specific details to describe your experiences so your reader can experience them imaginatively. Please write 2 pages (or 600 ) in MLA format (Times or Arial font size 12 only) . We will workshop this paper in Turnitin , which will constitute a lab grade. You must have a draft to participate in the peer reviews; if you don’t, you will receive a zero for that lab . Please upload your rough draft to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. on the appropriate [Your Last Name ] 2 day (see Course Calendar) . The final paper will be uploaded to Turnitin by 11:59 p.m. on the appropriate day (see Course Calendar).