.) Posting responds directly to the topic, question, or issue 2.) Posting demonstrates a critical understanding of the topic, question, or issue 3.) Posting is relatively free of grammar and punctuation errors For an example of a “quality posting,” please visit the discussion board, sign in, and click on the folder entitled “Quality Posting.” Responding to Others In addition to postings meeting the above criteria, there is an expectation that you will occasionally offer a thoughtful and carefully written response to the postings of your peers. Responses are required as part of the rough draft process, but, again, in order to insure a high grade for this portion of the class, be sure to engage in discussion and debate with your peers through the discussion forum. In Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway writes, “If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.” In other words, reading a typical Hemingway story requires looking below the surface, or beyond the text, in order to understand the story’s action and conflict(s), character motivations, and symbolic elements. “Hills Like White Elephants” is an apt exemplification of this style of writing. Choose two (2) symbols from Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and explain–in detail–their relevance and importance to the story as a whole, particularly the main conflict.
