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Category Archives: Required Readings
Book Review Essay Analysis
As we’ve been talking about, you’re going to write a book review essay that follows the basic conventions of the genre. My hope is that you’re already well on your way to getting a nonfiction book, published either this year … Continue reading
Book Review Essays, Spring 2014
This term we’ll talk about book review essays a lot. I insist on tacking the word “essays” on the back end of that phrase to help differentiate between those we’ll be reading, and those which might first come to mind. … Continue reading
Finding Lit Crit: EBSCOhost
So, one of the things students have sometimes struggled to find is discussion and analysis of an author’s works by literary critics. In this post, I’ll offer some suggestions for finding literary criticism using EBSCOhost. First of all, it’s important … Continue reading
The Bechdel Test
If you missed (or wanted to re-watch) the video featuring the Bechdel Test, I live to serve:
Required Reading: Statistics and Inferences
In a blog post on the New York Times‘ site today, Nate Silver raises cautions about the use of statistical evidence in an argument that could be very useful to us. He’s discussing the debate before the Supreme Court right … Continue reading
Two Spaces Forward, One Back
One of my pet peeves is when people are writing and double-space at the end of a sentence. This in fact was a rule once upon a time, when typewriters used monospaced type. Slate’s Farhad Manjoo wrote a screed about this … Continue reading
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