ENGL 1102 Composition and Literature

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Writing Primer
Readings	Assignments
A Writing Primer	Reading Assignment 1
Questions of Fact, Value, or Policy	Assignment 2: Analyzing and Dividing
Beginning the Writing ...
Attention Getting Devices
Preview
Body Paragraphs
Concrete Examples
Linking Statements
Review, Restate, Tieback
Argumentative Essays
Sample of a B- C+ Essay
Vividness and Clarity	Assignment 3: Vividness and clarity
Sample Essay Topics	More Sample Essay Topics
Common Critical Marks and What They Mean	Assignment 4: Puttin' it all together
	Reading Assignment 2

Literature
Readings	Assignments
Narrative Structure of Lit	Podcast: Narrative Structures (1 of 3) (direct link to file)
Narrative Structures 2 Setting	Podcast: Narrative Structures (2 0f 3) (direct link to file) Podcast: Narrative Structures (3 of 3) (direct link to file)

From Theme to Genre
A Note About Interpretation	Podcast: Interpretation (direct link to file)
3 Main Divisions of Lit
Non-Fiction
The Essay as Literature	Writing Assignment Swift's "A Modest Proposal" podcast: audiobook version of Modest Proposal King's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" Sagan's "Crop Circles and Aliens" Vonnegut's "Last Words for a Century" Aliens are Stealing Your Brain
Biography and Autobiography	Mandela's "Long Walk to Freedom"
	Autobiographical Writing Assignment

Podcasts
These are recorded lectures, saved as .MP3 files, that you can listen to on your computer or download to your IPOD or other MP3 player and listen to them at your leisure. Or frighten and amaze your friends and relatives...

Vividness and Clarity in AGDs and Concrete Examples. (6/26/6) (direct link to file)
Fiction 1: The Structure of Fiction. (6/28/6) (direct link to file)
ENGL 1102 Conflict (direct link to file)
ENGL 1102 Characters (7/6/6) (direct link to file)
ENGL 1102 Setting (7/10/6) (direct link to file)
ENGL 1102 Theme and Genre (part 1 of 2) (7/10/6) (direct link to file)
ENGL 1102 Generic Expectations (2 of 2) (7/11/6) (direct link to file)
ENGL 1102 Interpretation (1 of 2) (7/13/6) (direct link to file)

My essays for Arenafan (click here)

FICTION
Readings	Assignments
Fiction
Reading for Understanding	Reading (and writing) Assignment 2
H.G. Wells The Time Machine podcast: audiobook of The War of the Worlds	Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado Podcast: Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
O. Henry The Ransom of Red Chief podcast: The Ransom of Red Chief
Dorothy Parker A Telephone Call
William Faulkner A Rose For Emily	Emily Assignment
James Joyce Araby Podcast: James Joyce Araby	Critical Literature Assignment
Poetry
Readings	Assignments
Poetry
"How to Read a Poem," by E. Hirsch
Shakespearean Sonnets Podcast: Audiobook version complete collection of lkShakespearean Sonnets (Librivox)	link: Gutenberg etext of all Shakespeare's sonnet's link: Wikipedia on Shakespeare
Coleridge's, "Kubla Kahn"	Podcast: Audiobook version of Kubla Kahn Podcast: Audiobook ver. of Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Albatross!)
Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."	Podcast: Audiobook ver. of Death Be Not Proud
Keats,' "Ode on a Grecian Urn."	podcast: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Sandburg's "Chicago"	podcast: Sandburg's Jazz Fantasia
Thomas,' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."
Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"	podcast: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Hughes' "Theme for English B" and other works
	podcast: The Song of Songs
podcast: O Captain! My Captain! podcast: Leaves of Grass	podcast: The Charge of the Light Brigade
	podcast: Paul Revere’s Ride
	podcast: Dulce et Decorum est
Ginsberg's "Howl" Audio: Ginsberg Reading Howl and other poems.	Writing Assignment for Poetry

Writing the Research Paper
Readings	Assingments
Choosing a Topic	Research Paper Assignment
Research
Dividing your topic into three to five sub-topics
Organizational Outline
Internet Research Tools

Composition Primer

Questions of Fact, Value, and Policy
Division and Organization
Organizing the Essay
Punctuation Reminders (6K)
Using Quotations Effectively (7K)
Transitional Words and Phrases (9K)
Conjunctions (11K)
Using Semicolons (8K)
1062 Vocabulary Words (17K)
Word Roots and Prefixes (21K)

Literature

A glossary of literary terms
Tropes and rhetorical devices
Using your computer as a tool for literary analysis
Starting point for Lit research
Bibliomania Reference works on literature and language, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Searchable.
The Yahoo journal list
Some are online and some just advertise online.

An Introduction to Literary Criticism
Short articles on various critics, from Plato to Derrida.

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