ENGLISH COMPOSITION I
English 101
Mr. Kelley
SELECTED WRITING LINKS:
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The University of Minnesota maintains a good online writing guide that links to many other sites; just click http://www.owc.umn.edu/, and go to "Especially for Students." The University's pdf-format handbook for students is at http://writing.umn.edu/docs/sws/swgpdf.pdf. Also, check http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/index.htm. |
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Professor Jack Lynch of Rutgers University maintains an excellent style and grammar guide at this site: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html |
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Dan White of the University of Toronto has a site called Papers: Expectations, Guidelines, Advice, and Grading, co-written with Jeannine DeLombard. You'll find useful instruction and examples on structuring arguments, writing about literature, integrating sources, and avoiding plagiarism at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~dwhite/papers.htm. |
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The Writing Lab at Purdue has a fine site that offers handouts and exercises on grammar, style, and general composition at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/. |
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Paul Brian's excellent Common Errors in English Usage is online at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html. |
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Click on Harvard's Writing Center at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ewricntr/html/tools.htm. |
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SPECIFIC ESSAYS ONLINE: The following is a list of classic and modern essays that we may be reading during the semester. I will give further instruction on this later.
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Mortimer Adler: “How to Mark a Book”: http://radicalacademy.com/adlermarkabook.htm |
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Bruce Catton: “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts”: http://faculty.ucc.edu/english-chewning/catton.htm |
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Joan Didion: “Marrying Absurd”: http://lazydabbler.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/joan-didionmarrying-absurd/ |
"On Keeping a Notebook": http://www.ranablog.com/pdfs/didion.pdf
"In Bed": http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/InBed.rtf
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Annie Dillard: "Living Like Weasels”: http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG200-lad/dillard.htm |
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Stephen Jay Gould: “Dinosaurs in the Haystack”: http://stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_dinosaurs-haystack.html |
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George Orwell: “Shooting an Elephant”: http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/elephant.html |
“Politics and the English Language”: http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/language.html
“A Hanging”: http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/hanging.html
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Scott Russell Sanders: “The Inheritance of Tools”: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14341367/Sanderstools-Essay-11pt |
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Mark Twain: “Two Ways of Looking at a River”: http://www.siue.edu/~smoiles/ccblock.html |
“Uncle John’s Farm”: http://plaza.snu.ac.kr/~ur2big2/composition2/twain.htm
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Henry David Thoreau: “Walking”: http://eserver.org/thoreau/walking1.html |
“Civil Disobedience”: http://eserver.org/thoreau/civil1.html
Walden: (Note esp. Chapter 1, “Economy,” and Chapter 2, “Where I Lived, and What I lived for”):
http://eserver.org/thoreau/walden00.html
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Virginia Woolf: “Death of a Moth”: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Woolf_DeathoftheMoth.pdf |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: The following is a list of good books on the craft of writing and books that serve as a writer's "tools."
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The American Heritage Dictionary |
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The Oxford English Dictionary |
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Webster’s New World Collegiate Dictionary |
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Webb, Miller, and Horner, Hodges’ Harbrace College Handbook |
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Strunk and White, Elements of Style |
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Zinsser, On Writing Well |
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Murray, Write to Learn |
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Macrorie, Telling Writing |
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Hall, Writing Well |
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Trimble, Writing with Style |
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Elbow, Writing without Teachers |
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May, Booknotes |
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Writers at Work, multiple volumes of Paris Review interviews |
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Ballenger, The Curious Writer |
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Baker, The Complete Stylist |
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Decker, Patterns of Exposition |
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Ruby, Logic: An Introduction |
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Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature |
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Hacker, A Writer’s Reference |
Good examples of the way people work with ideas in order to develop them into larger projects--check journals, workbooks, daybooks, diaries, etc., by such writers as Thoreau, Coleridge, Camus, Melville, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Gide, Kafka, Baudelaire, Cocteau, Emerson, etc.
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