Wednesday, April 4, 2012
ENG 105 - Annotated Bibliography
Students. Remember you need to start on your research and the Annotated Bibliography. You can start sending those in next week and I hope to have all final Annotated Bibliographies received by April 16th so we can chat about them in your meetings.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Tips for Selection of Topics and Final Topics to Avoid
Start thinking of topics that….
• Relate to or affect the BVI or the Caribbean
• Politics
• Social Issues
• Transportation
• Think of your HOBBIES or personal interests that you have (fashion, cars, music, religion sports etc.)
• Think of your degree that you are seeking here at HLSCC (Business, English, math, law, teaching ect.) There are MANY issues that surround your career interests!
Topics to AVOID: (There are NO Exceptions)
• Marijuana
• Ergonomics
• Gay lifestyle
• Death Penalty
• Abortion
• Deforestation
• Mangroves
• Divorce
• Videogames
• Sex education
• The Beef Island, Scrub Island, or Oil Nut Bay projects
• Child Abuse
• Assisted suicide
• The BiWater/Ocean Conversion controversy
***Remember you are writing an ARGUMENTATIVE TOPIC; therefore, pick a topic that has more than one side to the issue.
• Relate to or affect the BVI or the Caribbean
• Politics
• Social Issues
• Transportation
• Think of your HOBBIES or personal interests that you have (fashion, cars, music, religion sports etc.)
• Think of your degree that you are seeking here at HLSCC (Business, English, math, law, teaching ect.) There are MANY issues that surround your career interests!
Topics to AVOID: (There are NO Exceptions)
• Marijuana
• Ergonomics
• Gay lifestyle
• Death Penalty
• Abortion
• Deforestation
• Mangroves
• Divorce
• Videogames
• Sex education
• The Beef Island, Scrub Island, or Oil Nut Bay projects
• Child Abuse
• Assisted suicide
• The BiWater/Ocean Conversion controversy
***Remember you are writing an ARGUMENTATIVE TOPIC; therefore, pick a topic that has more than one side to the issue.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
ENG 107 Poetry Essay Question
I
Analyze how the passage of time is explored in three or more poems that you have read. How have these poets used time to communicate their ideas?
Note: Several of the poems we have read are applicable here. Themes that are closely related to the passage of time should be explored as well. You are expected to clearly illustrate your points with relevant quotations and presentation of evidence from the poems themselves.
In addition to your response to your selected question (at least 3 pages), it is expected that you will provide a source separate from the stories and authors selected. Start your research on all facets of your chosen question as soon as possible. If you have questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me
Essay to be in Arial or Times 12pt font and double spaced.
Be sure to cite in accordance with MLA guidelines.
This essay is DUE Thursday, March 22nd 2012.
NO EXCEPTIONS
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
ENG 105 - Sample Rogerian Arguments.
Follow the links to read sample Rogerian arguments.
Helmets: Life or Liberty?
Stars and Stripes Forever
To Obey or Not To Obey
Helmets: Life or Liberty?
Stars and Stripes Forever
To Obey or Not To Obey
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
ENG 105 - Definition Essay Prompt
Write a 500 word essay attempting to define one of the following terms. You MUST adhere to MLA Conventions (if you do not have a Wadsworth Handbook PLEASE SEE THE OWL MLA GUIDE).
Write an extended definition of one of the following: Honor; Humility; Maturity; Integrity; True Friendship; Success; Self-Respect; Ambition; or Progress. Remember that an effective definition encompasses techniques used in other styles of Composition.
This essay is due Monday January 30th 2012 BEFORE 4:00 p.m.
Write an extended definition of one of the following: Honor; Humility; Maturity; Integrity; True Friendship; Success; Self-Respect; Ambition; or Progress. Remember that an effective definition encompasses techniques used in other styles of Composition.
This essay is due Monday January 30th 2012 BEFORE 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
ENG 208 - Poetry (Harlem Renaissance)
ENG 208:
First read Writing About Poetry at the OWL at Purdue's Online Writing Lab. Also see Quoting Poetry within a Paper using MLA Documentation to inform you while writing your essays.
Log on to EBSCOHost and search for "Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows." You will come across an essay of the same name written by Terence Hoagwood of Texas A&M University published in The Explicator. Read this and then answer the following question.
Essay:
William J. Maxwell shows how Claude McKay in particular is able to meet "the need for a medium of expanded radical communication" (qtd. in Hoagwood) through his use of Elizabethan verse forms.
Choose a poet from the assigned Harlem Renaissance poetry who has written in either closed form or blank verse. Consider how the selected poems are able to invoke feelings of fear, loss, oppression, and a yearning for change through the poet's use of language.
Please consider specifically (please research definitions where necessary): whether the poet engages in hypotaxis or parataxis, a poem is monologic or dialogic, the poet uses metonymy or synecdoche. Look at also: the use of meter and whether syllables and words are made of iambs, anapests, dactyls, trochees, or pyrrhics. Look for examples of enjambment, caesura, elision as well as falling meter and iambic feet.
This essay should follow all regular MLA guidelines as described at the OWL at Purdue's MLA Guide. Your sources should include the following as well as whatever academic research you do:
Poet's Lastname, Poet's Firstname. "Poem Title." Literature of the Black Diaspora. Handout. Poems for Study. (Richard Georges.) H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Nov. 2011. Print.
Hoagwood, Terence. "Claude McKay's HARLEM SHADOWS." Explicator 68.1 (2010): 51-54. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Nov. 2011.
The essay is due Tuesday November 22nd 2011 and should be emailed to me and not printed. On that day we shall have a lecture and classroom discussion on the Contemporary poets assigned.
First read Writing About Poetry at the OWL at Purdue's Online Writing Lab. Also see Quoting Poetry within a Paper using MLA Documentation to inform you while writing your essays.
Log on to EBSCOHost and search for "Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows." You will come across an essay of the same name written by Terence Hoagwood of Texas A&M University published in The Explicator. Read this and then answer the following question.
Essay:
William J. Maxwell shows how Claude McKay in particular is able to meet "the need for a medium of expanded radical communication" (qtd. in Hoagwood) through his use of Elizabethan verse forms.
Choose a poet from the assigned Harlem Renaissance poetry who has written in either closed form or blank verse. Consider how the selected poems are able to invoke feelings of fear, loss, oppression, and a yearning for change through the poet's use of language.
Please consider specifically (please research definitions where necessary): whether the poet engages in hypotaxis or parataxis, a poem is monologic or dialogic, the poet uses metonymy or synecdoche. Look at also: the use of meter and whether syllables and words are made of iambs, anapests, dactyls, trochees, or pyrrhics. Look for examples of enjambment, caesura, elision as well as falling meter and iambic feet.
This essay should follow all regular MLA guidelines as described at the OWL at Purdue's MLA Guide. Your sources should include the following as well as whatever academic research you do:
Poet's Lastname, Poet's Firstname. "Poem Title." Literature of the Black Diaspora. Handout. Poems for Study. (Richard Georges.) H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Nov. 2011. Print.
Hoagwood, Terence. "Claude McKay's HARLEM SHADOWS." Explicator 68.1 (2010): 51-54. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Nov. 2011.
The essay is due Tuesday November 22nd 2011 and should be emailed to me and not printed. On that day we shall have a lecture and classroom discussion on the Contemporary poets assigned.
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