Julian Barnes’ book Arthur & George fabricates the context for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s true crime article The Case of Mr. George Edalji. Within this fabrication, he depicts the characters of writer and ophthalmologist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and of solicitor Mr. George Edalji from the early stages of their lives to when their paths … [Read more…]
Boquet & Lerner’s 2016 article, Introduction to ATD Special Issue on WAC and HighImpact Practices introduces the reader to the concept of HighImpact Practices (HIP) as an intervention in college writing. Boquet and Lerner refer to Kuh to define HIP, quoting that they are “‘an investment of time and energy over an extended period that … [Read more…]
Assignment: A Room of One’s Own is a species of creative non-fiction, part lecture, part literary history, and part imaginative hypothetical musing, as in the story of Shakespeare’s sister. Questions 1-4 concern chapter 1 [Women and Fiction]. Questions 5-9 focus on the excerpt from Chapter 3 [Shakespeare’s sister]. 1. Read the editor’s introduction to Woolf’s essay, taking … [Read more…]
Assignment: We’ll spend two days on Mill’s essay. Please read the entire essay, then for day one, focus on questions 1-4, although you should feel free to range further ahead. Restate Mills’s basic premise i.e., the claim his essay will develop and explain why he thinks the relationship between the sexes is such an important … [Read more…]
This is a video demonstrating the process of finding good resources. RefWorks Tutorial:
This is my power point presentation for the writing fellows that introduces my essay concept of scaffolding.
This is my final essay for the writing fellows program where I discuss the importance of scaffolding, and research supporting its place in the peer-writing tutor environment. Download the attachment here:Writing Fellows Paper FInal
Assignment: [AURORA’S EDUCATION] How is England different than Italy? What specific language and images depict the two countries and Aurora’s experience in each? What does Aurora’s portrait of her Aunt tell us about the orphan’s childhood and/or the conventional route towards Victorian womanhood? List some of the “courses” and readings of Aurora’s education. How does … [Read more…]
Assignment: Describe the speaker in each of these poems. Describe the woman depicted in each of these poems. What is the relationship between viewer and subject? Which viewer? How is the reader implicated in this relationship? Discussion: 1. The speaker in Rosetti’s “In an Artist’s studio” is one out of a group of people … [Read more…]
Assignment: We’ll be spending one day each on discussion of Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and Rosetti’s “In an Artist’s Studio,” and the questions to guide each discussion are the same. Describe the speaker. Describe the woman depicted. What is the relationship between viewer(s) and the Duke and/or the Duchess? How is the reader implicated in … [Read more…]
