ENG 121 - more on Germanic & Latinate diction

If you want to know more about Germanic and Latinate diction, check out this article.

ENG 121 - reading from The Sun for week of 11/12

Find an article from The Sun (hard copy or online—doesn’t matter). Before you read it, look at it carefully and notice the design elements, such as

• How the title looks (consider font, type size, arrangement)
• How the text of the article looks (consider font, type size, columns, headings or subheadings, arrangement)
• Other visual elements (consider photos or artwork, graphics such as lines or circles that may appear in the margins, etc.)

Then read the article, noting how the design elements affect your understanding of what you’re reading. For example, certain design elements can cause you to read more quickly or slowly. Blog about your findings before our next class meeting (Nov. 19).

Audio Essays from ENG 121 (fall 2007)

Listen to Candice's, Harv's, Christy's, Kathy's, Chealse's, Adam's, Michelle's, Alicia's, and Nadia's. View Ana's caption essay.

ENG 121 - link for 10/31 class

Here is the link to the essay from The Sun. Read it before class and come ready to talk about what assumptions the author makes and who the audience is and how you can tell.

ENG 121 - links for 10/22 class

Go to the slideshow here and view the slides.

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