1984 text / audio

Hi everyone,

We'll start reading George Orwell's 1984 (1948) this week.

Here is the full text of the book, in Microsoft Word doc form.

Here is a free audio version of the book -- not the best voice recordings, but it's FREE! Please use this if hearing something aloud helps your comprehension.

Also, if you want a hard copy of the book, here is it is on flipkart for Rs. 80. It delivers quickly.

Get excited about entering a whole new world, very different from the one in Atonement. Dystopia, here we come!!

Citing and editorial analysis...

We need to get into the habit of following citation styles so we can learn how to participate in the academic community. The standards these academic organizations set can often seem annoying and too picky, but we don't make the rules: we just learn how to follow them.

For this class, please practice MLA citation, which is the primary style used in humanities writing. The best online repository of information on MLA citation is OWL at Purdue.

This paper will require you to cite one source -- your editorial. The normal format for that type of text is below:

Cite a newspaper article as you would a magazine article, but note the different pagination in a newspaper. If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (e.g., 17 May 1987, late ed.).

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post 24 May 2007: LZ01. Print.

Krugman, Andrew. "Fear of Eating." New York Times 21 May 2007 late ed.: A1. Print.

If the newspaper is a less well-known or local publication, include the city name and state in brackets after the title of the newspaper.

Behre, Robert. "Presidential Hopefuls Get Final Crack at Core of S.C. Democrats." Post and Courier [Charleston, SC] 29 Apr. 2007: A11. Print.

Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team." Purdue Exponent[West Lafayette, IN] 5 Dec. 2000: 20. Print.

(The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 24 August 2013.)

To read more on in-text, parenthetical citation, check out this page. For this paper, since most of you are using short, electronic articles, you can just cite the paragraph number. We'll talk about this in class.

I hope you'll become more comfortable with this format as you practice it. Let me know if you have questions.