Courses regularly offered by this instructor:

ENGL 622: Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature (graduate level)

• Schedule of Assignments (Fall 2006 syllabus)
  • Assignment instructions- Fall 2006
  • Evaluation criteria for advanced writing projects such as a seminar paper
  • For fun - the Eighteenth Century in popular culture
  • For further reading...
• Official English Department Goals for Graduate Programs

Course Description

• Current favorite scholarship
  

ENGL 490: Senior Seminar - "Magic Realism"

• Schedule of assignments - Fall 2008
• Fall 2008 grades
• Department Grading Policy
• Instructions for all assignments, Fall 2008
• Policies and grading criteria
• Upper Division Writing Requirement Criteria for evaluating work in English 490
  • Online searching for English studies:
               Researching literary and cultural fields of study online
  • http://web.stcloudstate.edu/src - student research colloquium website
  • http://efolio.project.mnscu.edu/index.asp- set up an electronic portfolio for free on this site (optional - evaluate the site's quality for yourself; note, however, that this webspace would be yours permanently)
  • For self-evaluation assignment (optional):

William Cronon essay, “Only Connect: The Goals of a Liberal Education”: http://www.pbk.org/about/Events/Convesations/CrononOnlyConnect.PDF#search=%22william%20cronon%20%22only%20connect%22%22

• Library day
• Advice on how to complete a long writing project
• Graduation speech to English majors published in the New York Review of Books

ENGL 490: Senior Seminar - "Magical Realism"

• Course schedule
• 490 assignments
• Grading
• Ideas for your Senior Project
• Past student hypertext projects

ENGL 420/520: British Novel
For further reading...  

ENGL 402/502: Literary Criticism and Theory

• 402 schedule of assignments - Fall 2008
  • For assignment instructions, see Schedule above, and scroll to the end of the document
• Final Paper topics for this course
• Department Grading Policy
• For review: terms from 402
• Final exam essay questions Spring 2007 - to be prepared in advance
• Need some lightening up? See Jenny Jones and Jerry Springer deal with theory.
• Here's an outstanding guide to theory from Purdue: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/
• Guide from University of Toronto, authored by Greig E. Henderson and Christopher Brown: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html

Qualifying for graduate credit in this course - English 502

 

 

ENGL 325: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature:
Course topic: "How English literature was invented"

• Syllabus Fall 2005
• Fall 2005 writing assignment instructions
• Day 2 questions answered
• Syllabus F2004
• Fall 2004 course assignments
• List of term paper topics Fall 2003
• Handout from day one
• Review sheet of concepts for the final exam

For further reading...

ENGL 300: Introduction to English Studies 

• Course schedule for English 300- Spring 2008
• Assignments for English 300, Spring 2008
• Here is a plan for organizing a literary interpretation essay.
• Cheat sheet of terms and concepts for poetics study
• Department policy: Key terms and concepts to be taught in English 300
• Proofreading check list - common writing errors
• Presentation topics
• Cold Mountain study questions
• Grades for Spring 2008

• Course Schedule Fall 2005
• Assignments for English 300, Fall 2005
• Syllabus, Fall 2004
• Assignments for English 300, Fall 2004

Related Student Projects:
Hypertext Poetry Project - Fall 1999 (Organized by Brian Freed)
Suggested topics for your criticism paper (Fall 1999)

ENGL 291: Rhetorical and analytical writing - 2 credits

ENGLISH 198: Introduction to Analytical and Research Writing in the Humanities

Course topic: Writing about the 1960s

• Schedule of Assignments - Spring 2009 198s09sch.htm
• Grades for 198 through 2nd week of April
• Class participation grades
• Complete collection of assignments, Spring 2009
• Organizing your rebuttal essay and term paper: Here's a simple plan for structuring an argument.
• 198 final paper topics
• Proofreading check list - common writing errors
• Sample formal proposal for the term paper: Formal proposal
• Getting a Life
• Sidney Hook's 10 Rules for Democratic Discourse (1957)
• Grammar practice online--Here's the clearest exercise on parts of speech that I could find: http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/
• Links to materials from the 1960s:
  • The psychedelic movement http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/
  • Posters http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/posters.html
  • Port Huron Statement: Students for a Democratic Society: http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html
  • The Sixties Project: http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/

ENGLISH 198: Introduction to Analytical and Research Writing in the Humanities

Course topic: Writing about the 1960s

• Schedule of Assignments - 198, section 7, Fall 2007
• Grading system - points for assignments
• Grades - Fall 2007
• Guidelines for ALL writing assignments
• Organizing your rebuttal essay and term paper: Here's a simple plan for structuring an argument.
• 198 early writing assignments
• 198 instructions for final paper
• 198 final paper topics
• Proofreading check list - common writing errors
• Sample formal proposal for the term paper: Formal proposal
• Getting a Life
• Sidney Hook's 10 Rules for Democratic Discourse (1957)
• Grammar practice online--Here's the clearest exercise on parts of speech that I could find: http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/
• Links to materials from the 1960s:
  • The psychedelic movement http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/
  • Posters http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/posters.html
  • Port Huron Statement: Students for a Democratic Society: http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html
  • The Sixties Project: http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/

ENGL 198: Introduction to Analytical and Research Writing in the Humanities

Course topic: Enlightenment and Romanticism

• Schedule of Assignments - 198, section 2, Spring 2006
• Grading system - points for assignments
• Guidelines for ALL writing assignments
• Organizing your rebuttal essay and term paper: Here's a simple plan for structuring an argument.
• 198 early writing assignments
• 198 instructions for final paper and final exam
• 198 final paper topics
• Proofreading check list - common writing errors
• Sample formal Final paper proposal
• comparison of Enlightenment and Romanticism
• On the Value of the Humanities--from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Getting a Life
• Descartes quotation
• Grammar practice online--Here's the clearest exercise on parts of speech that I could find: http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/

HONORS 240/HUMANITIES 250: The Wild Man: Introduction to the Humanities

Schedule of assignments, Spring 2008

Grades for Spring 2008

Project ideas

Interesting piece opposing assumptions about human violence.

On the Value of the Humanities--from the Chronicle of Higher Education

HONORS 180: Writing at the University: "From Enlightenment to Romanticism"

• Honors 180 schedule of assignments - Spring 2007
• Spring 2007 - assignment instructions
• comparison of Enlightenment and Romanticism
• Sidney Hook's 10 Rules for Democratic Discourse (1957)
• United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, go to the United Nations Scholars' Workstation Home Page
  http://www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html
  This link connects you to an enormous number of resources in international affairs.
  Near the bottom of that page there is a search engine. Simply type in the term "Human Rights," and you will find links to the document itself.

HONORS 198 - Research paper credit to accompany Honors 180

• Schedule of assignments - Honors 198 - Spring 2007
• Term paper topic suggestions - Spring 2007

HONORS 180: Writing at the University: "From Enlightenment to Romanticism: The Wild Man"

• Honors 180 schedule of assignments - Spring 2006
• Spring 2006 - assignment instructions
• comparison of Enlightenment and Romanticism
• Sidney Hook's 10 Rules for Democratic Discourse (1957)
• United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, go to the United Nations Scholars' Workstation Home Page
  http://www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html
  This link connects you to an enormous number of resources in international affairs.
  Near the bottom of that page there is a search engine. Simply type in the term "Human Rights," and you will find links to the document itself.

HONORS 198 - Research paper credit for this course

• Schedule of assignments - Honors 198, Spring 2006

• Term paper topic suggestions - Spring 2006

ENGL 191: Rhetorical and analytical writing - "A Civil Word"

• Schedule of Assignments - Tues-Thurs 8AM, section 2
• Schedule of Assignments - Tues-Thurs 10am, section 10
• To listen to our class assignment "The Fix Is In", go to http://www.thislife.org/, and look for Episodes/RealAudio, by date: Go to the year 2000, and scroll down to 9/15. Click to start listening to this 55 minute radio show.
• Guidelines for ALL writing assignments
• Organizing your rebuttal essay and term paper: Here's a simple plan for structuring an argument.
• 191 early course assignments
• 191 assignments leading to the research paper 
• Research paper instructions, including format
• Research paper topics
• Sample formal research paper proposal
• Grading scheme for the course Points system

191 SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS - Spring 2003

• Course Description
  
• Research Paper topics
  
• Assignments
  
• Sample A paper written for Essay 1 assignment

ENGL 184: Introduction to Literature

• Schedule of assignments, Fall 2003
• Paper 1 assignment
• Paper 2 - Ceremony
• Paper 3 - Interpreting Poetry
• Connect to Professor Dorn's WebCT page for this course. You need to have a Huskynet account to enter. Your grades will be posted on WebCT throughout the term.
• Here is a simple plan for structuring an argument.
• Notes from class on writing Paper 1 - 9-26-03
• Guidelines for evaluating an essay draft.
• For quick help with grammar and other literacy questions:
  Welcome to LEO: Literacy Education Online
• Project Muse can be very helpful for researching literary topics. Your textbook offers a web page relating to course materials. Here are additional research links.
• New York Times op/ed piece on recalculating the definition of poverty (for MacPherson, Omelas, Bambara, etc.

HONORS 180: Writing at the University: "Enlightenments and Romanticisms"

• Course description
• Getting a Life assignment
• A simple plan for structuring an argument.
• HONS 198: Research Paper topics