ENG 121 - read for 10/24

Read this article from The Sun.

ENG 121 - Links for 10/8 class

• Trent Reznor’s lyrics
• Nine Inch Nails video
• Johnny Cash’s lyrics (only slightly different from Reznor's)
• Johnny Cash video
  

This I Believe Audio Essay Assignment

To prepare for class on October 10, go to http://thisibelieve.org/aboutus.html and read “About This I Believe.”

Then go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4566554 and read Edward R. Murrow’s 1951 introduction to the This I Believe series.

Finally, go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138, scroll down to “Essays New and Old” and listen to five of the audio essays. To listen to one, you’ll need to click on its title and then click the Listen icon.

REQUIRED BLOG ENTRY to do before class on October 10: Write 150+ words in response to at least one of the audio essays you listened to. Be sure to include the name of the audio essay(s) you are responding to. Consider how listening to an essay is different from reading an essay. Consider how the essay authors used their voices to create intimacy and immediacy.

Optional: I recorded my own audio essay in Fall 2006 when I first gave this assignment to my students. You can listen to it here, if you are curious.

ENG 122 - link to multigenre project

You can find the multigenre project on hospice care here.

ENG 121 - The Sun assignment for the week of Oct. 1

Look through any issue of The Sun and find an article/essay to read that does in some way what Taylor Mali does in “What Do Teachers Make”: makes a strong statement with elements of tirade but avoids being simply a tirade. Write a response on your blog to the article/essay from The Sun.

You can find a text version of Mali's "tirade" here.

ENG 122 – for 9/18

Here is a definition and explanation of quantitative research methods:
Quantitative research is the systematic scientific investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their relationships. The objective of quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models, theories and hypotheses pertaining to natural phenomena. The process of measurement is central to quantitative research because it provides the fundamental connection between empirical observation and mathematical expression of quantitative relationships.

Here is a definition and explanation of qualitative research methods.
Research involving detailed, verbal descriptions of characteristics, cases, and settings. Qualitative research typically uses observation, interviewing, and document review to collect data. Simply put, it investigates the why and how of decision making, as compared to what, where, and when of quantitative research. Hence, the need is for smaller but focused samples rather than large random samples, which qualitative research categorizes data into patterns as the primary basis for organizing and reporting results.

Now think about the peer reviewed journal articles you're read. Do they seem to be using qualitative or quantitative methods? How can you tell? ? How can you tell?

LIT 145 - reading for 10/18

For each poet, the biographical info is optional; the poems are not.

Info on Audre Lorde. Poems: “Inheritance—His” and “A Woman Speaks”

Info on Maxine Kumin. Poems: “Woodchucks” and “Morning Swim”

Info on Denise Levertov. Poems: “The Mutes” and “People at Night”

Info on Carolyn Forche. Poems: “The Colonel” and “The Visitor”

Info on Rita Dove. Poems: “Adolescence II” and “Dusting”

Rita Dove reading her poems

LIT 145 - reading for 10/9

For each author listed, the poems are required reading; the biographical information is optional.

Info on Lucille Clifton . Poems: “Homage to My Hips” and “The Lost Baby Poem”

Info on Adrienne Rich. Poems: “Cartographies of Silence” and “For the Dead”

Info on Anne Bradstreet. Poem: “The Author to Her Book”

Info on Emily Dickinson. Poems: Read as many of these as you like.

Info on Anne Sexton. Poems: “The Truth the Dead Know” and “Unknown Girl in a Maternity Ward”

Info on Sylvia Plath. Poems: “Childless Woman” and “Poppies in October”

LIT 145 - reading for 9/25

Here's the information on Magical Realism.
Here's the offical Isabel Allende Website.

LIT 145 - link for reading for 9/18

Here's the info on the lives of Ancient Greek women.

ENG 122 - links to YouTube videos from 9/4 class

• Evolution (shows the model being made up, airbrushed, etc.)
• The Machine is Us/ing Us (about how Web 2.0 is changing everything)
• Shift Happens (about how size really does matter)

scholarship for bloggers

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