26 January 2012, English 1301 and 1302
I apologize for my delay in posting this; I am a bad role model.
Remember that your excellent research paper is due 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday / St. George’s Day.
English 1301, Monday, 23 January 2012
1. Syllabus and administrivia – instructor talked too much. Syllabus will be available on this weblog.
2. Attendance requirements
3. Summer class surveys. Please do complete these and turn them in to your old instructor or to someone at the library desk or in the office. These surveys are very useful in helping the administration plan and offer the summer classes you need for your professional career. In completing these surveys you are not committing yourself.
4. “Keys to College Success” – handout, instructor wisely did not talk much.
5. More about attendance
6. MLA essay format – handout. Your handbook contains much about the MLA essay format; this is a useful model.
7. Research paper. This is due on 23 April. Multiple handouts; be sure to study these along with the many pages (335-454) in your handbook regarding a research paper in the MLA format. In-class instruction on the research paper will commence immediately after the mid-term exam, but, really, you should know most of this before then.
8. Fatuous words and phrases – handouts. Do not write CBS English; employ a good vocabulary and fresh metaphors.
9. Descriptive reading / descriptive writing. Very useful handout.
10. “Summer Rituals,” Ray Bradbury. Excerpted from Dandelion Wine. Read it.
English 1302
1. “The Seafarer” – modern translation, handout. Essay assignment – essay due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, 1 February.
2. Quiz, “The Seafarer,” in class.
3. Writing lab
4. Chaucer – handout of The General Prologue in Middle English. If you wish to use a modern translation (but why?), you can find numerous versions on the Internaif. You are quite welcome to access SparkNotes or Cliff’s Notes; to my knowledge I am the only English instructor in all of Christendom who permits that.
5. Your research paper is due on 23 April.
6. Review the syllabus on occasion.
Everyone – remember always that you are preparing yourselves to be young professionals. You acquire knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and your degree or certification through work, not through dreams.
