Sample Course Assignments
Response Papers: Masterpieces of British Literature
For four of the pairs of texts that we read, you will write a response paper in which you analyze these texts informally. The response papers are just that, a response. This is more than a reaction to the text by the inclusion of your thoughtful analysis. This requires the use and accurate citation of the text (see further information in the Writing Packet or in the MLA Handbook)....
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Dialectical Journal, Heart of Darkness: Modern & Contemporary Literature
- Talk about your experience of reading HOD. What effect does the narrative structure have on your reading? What passages caught you?
- What do you make of Conrad's language? How would you describe it? What passages are indicative of it?
- What is Conrad's take on civilization/empire? How and where do you see them represented and developing?
Mid-Term Paper: Masterpieces of British Literature
For your mid-term paper, you will analyze two or more of the texts we have read so far this term. In a sense, it will be an extended response paper as you are expected to have read the texts thoroughly and analyze them based on a specific question, query or position. In fact, you may want to use your response papers as fodder for your mid-term.
Unlike your response papers, though, your final paper should begin where your response papers end: your conclusion becomes your thesis....
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For your final project, worth 100 points, you have several options: a formal analytical paper, a creative project, or a project which incorporates the ideas and issues addressed in these texts into the ideas and issues of your major subject area. Each option requires the inclusion of five texts you have read throughout the course equally throughout the project....
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