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Below as well as on the Home Page you will find links to class syllabi and class material as well as links to Internet sites aimed to enrich classroom instruction. Reminder: I have a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for plagiarized papers. Please note that I am familiar with the primary web site sellers of papers.

Moreover, I reserve all rights to submit papers to Turnitin.com for verification of original work.
Click for English Department's Policy on Plagiarism.

ALL of my ENGLISH courses adhere to STANDARD grading practices, to wit:
Grades of A and B indicate students have EXCEEDED the course's MINIMUM requirements;
grades of C indicate students have MET minimum requirements. 

Please click HERE for the English Department Grading Criteria.

Based on my experience along with my objective professional judgment, I shall assign grades that mirror
your ACTUAL academic achievements, not your potential and effort.  To do otherwise would result in the
 unjust practice of devaluing superior academic work by inflating the grades of less meritorious work.

ENGL 1301 Composition/Rhetoric I emphasizes substantive thesis statements pointing to substantive, clearly expressed content (resulting in large part from correct usage, coherence, and basic grammar rules and functions).  My philosophical core is simple: If you arm yourself with grammatical knowledge, organizational techniques, and effective diction, you can gain the confidence to write coherently in all rhetorical modes and in all disciplines during your academic career.   To this end, the "step-by-step" essay calls for the inclusion of basic grammar, sentence complexity, usage, mechanics, and supporting details through a succession of five drafts, each one building on active classroom instruction, participation, and application.

Only by acquiring a framework of basic knowledge and by viewing language as a vital, systematic universe can you produce successful papers ranging from informative essays to book reviews to critical literary analyses. In this course (and in all my courses, for that matter), the notion of separating content and form to inflate an essay's grade based on content only is an insupportable and therefore fallacious concept. Sadly, unless teaching professionals come to grips with the damage resulting from the practice, the "separation" concept will continue to rob an unacceptable number of students from acquiring knowledge vital to the worthy art of producing authentic and readable prose.

Composition Et Cetera A Condensed Guide to Writing an Essay A Brief Guide to Comma Usage A Visual Guide to Organizing an Essay Avoiding Sentence Faults Active and Passive Voice An Interactive Spelling Test Common Mistakes and Tricky Choices Common Errors in English Usage Sample Punctuation Quiz One Sample Punctuation Quiz Two Online Technical Writing: Sentence Diagnostic Quiz for Advanced Students Interactive Quizzes for ESL Students Guide to Grammar, Writing, and Quizzes Style: Subordination and Coordination Ask the Experts Purdue Writing Lab Online Fifty Online Writing Sites Frequently Asked Questions Grading Standards, ENGL 1301, 1302 Grammars, Resources, Et Cetera Glossary of Grammatical Terms The Finished Paper A.Word.A.Day Vocabulary Development Wordwatch Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place. (William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style)	Literary Resources The Ancient and Classical World The Medieval World Shakespeare's World What Use Is Literature? About Classic Literature, Works Included A to Z Literature 9,000 Links to Literature Early Modern Literary Studies 18th-Century Studies, Alphabetized 20th-Century Literature Sites 20th-Century Writers, Alphabetized African Studies in Literature Romanticism on the Net Victorian Studies Questions/Answers over the Classics Classical to Contemporary Drama Classics: Online Literature Library Dante, Lorca, Petrarch, & Others Michel de Montaigne Philosophical Studies Plato's Republic in Plain English Myths & Legends of the World Time Line of Significant Events Norton's World Literature Resources Documentation & Note Format Evaluating Web Sources	Miscellaneous A Chronology of the Common Era A Web of On-Line Dictionaries Dictionary of Difficult Words A Celebration of Women Writers Bartleby's Index to Verse Index/Sources of Common Expressions Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Find a Quotation or Famous Expression Phrasebase Bibliomania Concordances of Great Books The Great Books Index, Online Oxford Libraries: OxLIP The Virtual Reference Desk (Purdue) The Virtual Reference Desk/English MIT Virtual Reference Collection Richard Lederer's Language Links The HUMBUL Humanities Hub The Academy: A-Z Links Nobel Prize Winners in Literature The Pulitzer Prizes The Elements of Style The Decline of Grammar Critical Paper Guidelines Revision Symbols for Literary Papers The Writing Center Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902) Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.  William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
English 1301 Menu Composition/Rhetoric I Spring Semester Syllabus Summer Semester Syllabus Fall Semester Syllabus Essay Accompaniment Required Essay Topics English 1302 Menu Composition/Rhetoric II English 1302 Syllabus Suggested Essay & Research Topics	English 2332 Menu World Literature I (to 1700s) Spring Semester Syllabus Summer Semester Syllabus Fall Semester Syllabus Ithaca (by Cavafy) Sample Exam over the Odyssey Sample Essay Exam: Quotations Ancient Greece Review Guide Review Guide over the Odyssey	English 2342 Menu Short Story & Novel Spring Semester Syllabus Maymester Syllabus Summer Semester Syllabus Fall Semester Syllabus Wintermester Syllabus Weekly Course Syllabus (Evening Class) Course Resource Links Essay Topics and Literary Terms Review
Words for Your Listening Pleasure Audio Links Listen to brief excerpts from theOdyssey, the Iliad, Frankenstein, Hamlet, The Lottery, and miscellaneous fiction, drama, and poetry	Wintermester World Lit II: English 2333: World Lit II Syllabus In Memory 9/11/2001 Go to the write stuff Return to Home Page	English 2343 Menu Poetry & Drama Maymester Syllabus Weekly Syllabus Spring Syllabus Study Guide & Independent Readings Sample Essay Exam Course Resource Links Literary Terms Review

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