Fall 2004

Syllabi

Reading & Writing About Texts:
Eng 201:033/035 (Thurs, 4:30-7:10, 7:20-10pm, Enterprize 279/Robinson A210)

Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Applied Technology:
English 302N13: Mon, 7:20-10:100 pm, Robinson A101

Short Talk Schedule

For English 201.033/035: Reading and Writing About Texts

The Format Students Must Follow to Write Essays

The Essay with Guidelines

Student Models (for 201.033/035)

For Short Talk
• Two Short Talks on Last Orders, Novel and Film: "Shifting Points of View versus Ensemble Cast and Flashbacks"
• One Student Talk on Chrétien de Troyes's Erec and Enide
For Essays with Guidelines:
• An Essay Following Guidelines on Three Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Poems
• An Essay Following Guidelines on Thomas Middleton's Jacobean play, Women Beware Women
  
• An Essay Following Guidelines comparing the treatment of passion in Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
  
• An Essay Following Guidelines comparing Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly
• An Essay Following Guidelines on the use of gothic landscape and romance in Anthony Trollope's Anglo-Irish novel, An Eye for an Eye
• An Essay Following Guidelines on illusions and ghosts in Three Ghost Stories
  
For Comparisons of Novel and Films:
• On A Month in the Country, Novel and Film: The Power of Mise-en-scène versus Landscape and Dialogue: Opening Scenes.
• On Last Orders, Novel and Film: "Mise-en-scène versus Verbal Imagery: What Human Beings Treasure Most.
Film Review
• Stephen Frears's Mary Reilly: Social Stratification and Class Consciousness in 19th Century England

Further Online and Reserve Materials for 201.003/035

• From the Victorian Web: Graham Swift: An Overview, consisting of essays and much information on the man and his books,
• From Brock University, Dept. of English, Prof. John Lye's outline of the novel, Last Orders by Graham Swift.

For English 302N13: Advanced Composition in Natural Sciences and Technology

Learning to Write an Abstract for 302N13

• Instructions
  
• Practice I
  
• Practice II

Student Models for 302N13

For Short Talk
• On "Richard Feynman's Definition of a Good Experiment"
Essay #1
• "The Great American Scream Machine" and "The Golden Gate Bridge"
  
• "From Dictaphone to Disc: The Beginnings of the In-Home Concert
  
Book Reviews
• "The Scientific Method: A Review of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle and Mark Ridley's Darwin Reader"
  
• "Adventures of a Curious Character"
Essay #2
• "Some Observations on the Orangutans," "The White-Tailed Deer"
  
• "The California Sea- Lion"
  
• "Deserts, Wind and Water"
  
Essay #3
• "Improving Life with Arthritis"
  
• "Ritalin and ADHD"
  
• "Unravelling the Mystery"
  
• "Caesarean Childbirth: A Modern Convenience?"
  

Further Online Materials for 302N13

• A short list of books by and on Richard Feynman
  
• Four Feynman Books by Michael Swaine, "Programmer's Bookshelf", Electronic Review of Books
  
• Reviews of Dava Sobel's book, Longitude upon which the film, Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude is based.
• Two NOVA Transcripts: In Search of the First Language as aired by PBS; and Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as aired by PBS.
• A short list of books and essays on topics, texts and films related to Steve Olson's Mapping Human History: our human genetic and cultural heritage and history.
• Melvin Konner's Website
• A short list of books and essays on the science of medicine.
  
• Internet Movie Database information for Wit.
• Perri Klass's Reach Out and Read: Literary Promotion in Pediatrics: A Talk , accompanied by a short biography and bibliography.