English 101 at Ashland

When I first introduced this essay, I commented that it was one I encountered in my own freshman year. Reflecting on the Scudder article itself (not on your papers), two things stand out. The first, which I got immediately and which many of you landed on as well, is the value of deep, direct observation, whether of a biological specimen or of a text. No matter how much you think you know, there is always something more. A very recent observation: This morning’s gospel reading in the Episcopal church was the incident in which someone asked Jesus if it is OK to pay taxes to Caesar. An event which many of us know inside-out. Jesus asks for the coin which would be used for paying taxes. Until today, two things had never dawned on me. One was that a good Jew would not normally be carrying a coin with the graven image of the emperor, a violation of the Second Commandment. Another is that they must have had two kinds of money—Roman and Jewish. ...

Here is an approach to using MS Word Online without getting lost in that strange template which seems to be a paper about exotic birds, written by Rama Gokhale. I wrote this to avoid some of the problems you might run into, beginning with the whole “Paragraph Styles” issue. (I simply left them out.) There are at least six current versions of MS Word, and they differ a lot in their appearance and the User Interface. This discussion only applies to the online version you can get through the AU Copilot link. Note: Most Windows keyboards have an Enter key. Most Apple keyboards have a Return key. They are the same. Open Microsoft Word and click the blue Create a blank document box. In the upper left, you will see “Document X” (where X is the number of documents you have created). Double-click those words and type a name for the file, then press the Enter/Return key. (Note: If you don’t do this, all of your files will be titled ...