EN5232: Ideology and Literature

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EN5232 Ideology and Literature

• 27 February 2007

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Class Plan

• JWB a few things, in brief
• She-reen on Kingston
• Jane on Kingston
• JWB again on Snyder (if time allows)

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JWB stuff

• academic genres
• book review, note, conference presentation,
  review essay, article, chapter, dissertation,
  book
• Audience/purpose differences practicality of
  book review contribution to knowledge of
  article or dissertation awareness of prior
  commentary

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Essay 2 2nd critical review

• essay 2 like essay 1, but MLA selected article
  DUE WEEK 10
• That class criticism workshop
• we will
• discuss problems related to your scholarship
• catch up on short-shrifted material
• what would you like to discuss in particular?

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MLA

• start here http//courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellw
  bj/jwb/
• NUS, digital library, databases, MLA, etc
• narrowing down info, collecting articles start
  SOON

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Student presentations

• Weeks 11, 12, 13
• You should not read for more than 15 minutes.
  12-15 minutes fine.
• This presentation will be a draft of your final
  essay. Get going!
• We will also practice
• responding critically to others work
• receiving criticism w/out having nervous breakdown

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Okay, now to Shereen and Jane.