ENG 199: Introduction to Literary Studies

Section 1: MWF 9:00-9:50
Bradley Dilger, Assistant Professor of English

ENG 199 is designed to encourage English majors and minors to transform their acts of reading and writing by learning foundational skills of English Studies: close reading and effective interpretation, writing and revising literary analyses, and MLA formatting and style.

News

11/14: I have made a few changes in the course schedule, detailed here.

11/5: I will be back in class 11/14. Close reading 6 is due then.

10/21: I have dropped one close reading from the list of assignments. Close reading 7 is now due in Week 16 (Friday, 12/9). To keep the number of points the same, this reading will count double. Please write 800-1000 words for this assignment.

10/11: Close reading four is now due Monday, October 17.

10/7: Examples and activity for today.

10/5: Here's a bit more about our midterm.

10/4: This John Keats web site is very useful.

9/1: Here’s the information you need to write a Works Cited entry for Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style: it was published in 1981 by New Directions Publishing, New York.

More news and any changes to the schedule will be posted here.

Upcoming classes

Past classes are archived here.

Handouts

All handouts are in PDF format, which you can open with Adobe Reader or a similar program.

Last updated 07 December 2005 by Bradley Dilger.