Lee University English Department
Syllabus (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Basic Literary Terms
Writing About Fiction
Narrative Voice
Reading Closely and Actively
The Lottery
Notes on Jackson's "The Lottery"
The Open Boat
Young Goodman Brown
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
The Story of an Hour
Barn Burning
William Faulkner
Writing about Poetry
Resources for Writing Papers
Evaluating Sources of Information
Evaluating Web Sources
Audience
Strategies for Overcoming Writer's Block
Developing a Thesis Statement
Five Editing Principles
Using Commas Correctly
Man Compounds
Black
Plagiarism
The Yellow Wallpaper
Thinking about Purpose and Audience
The Importance of Good Writing Skills
Grading Standards: Composition
How to Read a Poem Out Loud
"Invention" - Billy Collins
"The Names" - Billy Collins
"I Ask You" and "Neither Snow" - Billy Collins
"Study in Orange and White" - Billy Collins
Rita Dove: Online Poems
"Filling Station" - Elizabeth Bishop
"The Man-Moth" - Elizabeth Bishop
"At the Fishhouses" - Elizabeth Bishop
"One Art" - Elizabeth Bishop
"In the Waiting Room" - Elizabeth Bishop
Galway Kinnell--Online Poems
Evaluation Criteria for Final Portfolio
Additional Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Amiri Baraka:Online Poems
