Please join Professor Charles Rice-Gonzalez on Sunday, March 15, at 7 PM, when he will read at The Sunday Salon prose reading series, at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village. This special event features writers of color who have…
A Possible Developmental English Unit on Education Themes
In this Best Practice post, you’ll find ideas from Professor Craig Bernardini about a developmental writing unit on education, suitable for use in English 93. DevelopmentalUnit
Compare-Contrast Assignment: Eng 242 with possibilities for 110 or 111
Thanks to Professor Craig Bernardini for sharing this compare and contrast assignment, designed for his Writing About Music elective. The Springsteen lesson, he notes, would be adaptable for ENG 110 or 111 as well. ENG 242_Compare_Contrast
Eng 110 Study Guides to Classic Texts: Marx, King, Thoreau
Thanks to Professor Craig Bernardini for this contribution to the TLC, a set of “study guides and classwork for some classic expository writings”: Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto,” Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.”…
Professor Lou Bury reading at NYU on March 31, 2015
Join English Department Faculty member Lou Bury as he discusses his new book at an upcoming event at the Humanities Initiative at New York University on Tuesday, March 31, from 6 to 8 PM. The book, Exercises in Criticism, is…
English 111 Resource: A Take-Home Formal Essay Analyzing Drama
Here is a sample English 111 take-home essay assignment about Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun. The author of this assignment, Professor Bollinger, finds that it “works well because it asks students to make predictions based on evidence…
English 110 Sample In-Class Question with Prep Handout
These documents come courtesy of Professor Bollinger and her English 110 course, which is themed around food. She has used this in-class writing question on analyzing a print advertisement, and has used the accompanying handout to prepare students for the…
English 110 Resource: Handout on Essay Formatting
Thanks to Professor Heidi Bollinger for providing this best practice handout on essay formatting! Bollinger_EssayFormatHandout
English 111 Resource: A Study Guide to Arthur Machen’s “The White People”
Thanks to Professor Michael Cisco for providing his study guide to the 1904 short story “The White People.” In Professor Cisco’s words, the story is “a classic weird tale by Arthur Machen.” The text of the tale is available online…
Electives Best Practice: A Chronological Playlist for ENG 242
Below is a chronologically organized list, hyperlinked to clips whenever possible, of music studied in Professor Rounds’s English 242: Writing About Music course in Spring 2014. While the syllabus had grouped musical examples by topic (e.g., pieces with particularly strong…
