Weekly Reading Responses
Over the course of the semester you and your classmates will post reading responses to this class blog. This blog is *not* public-facing a deliberate design that enables this learning community to discuss/question/provoke/analyze with the understanding that this dialogue takes place within a deliberate learning community. MA Students: write 7 reading response blog posts. PhD Students: write 9 reading response blog posts. It is your choice which weeks you select. Expectations (as listed on also under “Weekly Readings”): Each week’s reading combines theory, criticism, and aesthetic texts. Your goal is to synthesize the readings. How do they relate to one another? What notion of a technology of the text emerges from each week’s readings? Consider the aesthetic texts or philosophy (if appropriate). This involves speaking synthetically but also working with individual texts and specific passages. At the beginning of each class every student will summarize their posted discussion which highlights and addresses the reading material. Our discussion will thus be in part structured by the interests of the class. DEADLINE: in advance of class by Thursday at 9:00am. Upload onto our closed class-only Google Blogger.
Formal Papers (Explication and Final Paper): Submit in Google Drive Personal Submission Folder
Reading Materials not contained in a textbook
I circulate materials through Google Drive in a folder shared with you titled ENGL701 ENGL801. If you have difficulty locating your ODU Google Drive, sign out of your regular gmail account, then sign in to Google with your .odu email address. Navigate to Google Drive using the blue squares arranged in 3 x 3 icon in the top right corner. Select Drive and you will find yourself able to make Google docs, spreadsheets, and etc.
PDFs will be available via Google Drive in the folder “Materials.”
Late Work
No late work will be accepted in this course––unless you have received an approved extension (see below). A request for an extension must be made in-person during office hours or by appointment 48 hours before the assignment deadline. There are no retroactive extensions. You must complete all major assignments to pass the class. If you receive an F for a major assignment. I will expect you to revise and resubmit the essay by a date that we mutually agree upon. Generally, I grant one extension per student, per semester. Be judicious about your requests.