English 197, Writing Link with English 202, Spring 2005
Resources for accurate reading
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Mythica
The World Wide Study Bible
Yale Biblical Study Link
Glossary of Poetic Terms
Glossary of Literary Terms
Voice of the Shuttle
OWL: Purdue's On-Line Writing Lab
Close Reading Tutorial
The Resources Used:
The Annotated
Ion
Sample Sonnet paraphrases
Resources for Historical Periods
The Renaissance and Humanism
How to Read a Poem
Guide from Bedford/St. Martin's Press
Resources for
Othello
Backgrounds for
Othello
Assignments
Short essay #1
Short essay #2
Suggestions for close reading
Writing about close reading
Major Essay 1
Major Essay 2
Reading Questions
Plato,
The Republic
Plato's
Ion
and Aristotle's
Poetics
Sidney,
Apology
Pico della Mirandola's "Oration" and Machiavelli's
The Prince
Hobbes'
Leviathan
and Rousseau's
Discourse
Wordsworth, "Preface to
Lyrical Ballads
"
Coleridge, from
Biographia Literaria
Shelley, from
Defence of Poetry
Thoreau, from
Walden
Eliot, from various works
Richards, from various works
Shakespeare,
Othello
Guides for Peer Critiques, Etc.
Guide for peer critques
Protocol for peer critiques
Miscellaneous Handouts
On clarity
On cohesion
Searle on manuscript format