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Topic: Socrates, Dan, and Living Well (come up with your own title)
Your essay should contain the answers to these questions, in any order:
– What does Socrates teach Dan? Can this be taught?
– How does Socrates teach Dan; what are some of his methods and techniques?
– Why does Socrates take on another student? In other words, why teach Dan?
– What is Dan’s reaction to Socrates’ methods?
– If you met someone like Socrates, how would you react? What would you think or do? Would you put up with him?
These questions can be reduced to: what is Soc teaching? why is he teaching this? how does Soc teach this? What is Dan’s reaction? How would your reaction?
Mention Dan Millman, the author, only in the beginning with the title of the book. You are writing about the book, not about Dan Millman, the real-life writer, writing about the book.
Write “honestly.” Sound like yourself (even though the self is evolving and shaping itself, and writing is part of the search and evolving taking place). Say what you have to say in your own voice, with your own diction, with your own academic integrity.
GUIDELINES:
1. Introduction: What are you writing about? Who cares? So what? Why does the subject matter? Mark the thesis.
2. After these pronouns—it, this, which, they, and that—write the noun each refers to. If you decide not to follow this guideline, you will have twenty points deducted from the score (about two letter grades). CHECK FOR FAULTY PRONOUNS AND FIX THEM (this is crucial)!!!
3. Use seven appositives and mark them with an asterisk *. Make sure half of them are long, probably with a subordinate clause in it.
4. Paragraphs development—about 120 words each. Mark the topic sentence of each body paragraph, for example: Soc teaches Dan in four ways (t.s.).
5. In one paragraph, put the comma rule after each comma.
6. Use a few direct quotations from WPW. Do not use only paraphrases.
7. Cite pages for evidence and verification for what you say. For example, Socrates pushes Dan into the water (28).
8. Use these words in the essay: inescapably, nevertheless, inexplicable, likewise, however, therefore, in other words
9. Use the present tense, the “literary tense,” when writing about literature. For example, Dan goes to an all-night gas station early in the morning.
Going to a gas station late at night, Dan finds an old man sitting in front.
