HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY

Advanced Composition
Fall 2008

Syllabus  / ANGEL (discussion board)

A CABIN IN THE WOODS

 

HENRY DAVID THOREAU Links 

• The Thoreau Reader (online texts)

• The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

• The Thoreau Society

• Walden List Members Page

• Thoreau Quotes

• Thoreau's Defense of John Brown

• "The Theory, Practice, and Influence of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience"

• Transcendentalists

• American Transcendentalism Web

• Walden Map

• Wikipedia Entry

 

THEODORE KACZYNSKI Links

• "Industrial Society and Its Future"
  (Unabomber manifesto)

• Trial & Background Stories
  (Washington Post)

• "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber"
  (Alston Chase in the Atlantic Monthly)

• Interview with Alston Chase

• Psychological Evaluation of Kaczynski

• Luddism

• Wikipedia Entry

The Professor & the Madman

• Simon Winchester Homepage

• Reviews

• Interview with Simon Winchester

• Another Interview

In Cold Blood

• A Legacy (a look back at the crime and the book by a Kansas newspaper)

• Tru Grit (a review of Truman and Have You Heard?)

Research & Citation

• Research and Documentation Online

• Diana Hacker.com

• Building an Argument

• Constructing a Logical Argument

• Logic & Fallacies

• More on Logical Fallacies

• Thesis Statements

• Thesis Statements II

• Plagiarism Sites

• Cheating Culture

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Old Topics

On Ice

• Gretchen Legler's Homepage

• Antarctic Circle

• Antarctic Connection

• Australian Antarctic Division

• British Antarctic Survey

• Chronology of Antarctic Exploration

• Cool Antarctica

• Current Weather Conditions at the South Pole

• New South Polar Times

• South Pole.com

• Shackleton

• Writing About Antarctica

• Explorers

Fun Home

• Graphic Novel Overview

• Interview with Alison Bechdel

• Dykes to Watch Out For:  Bechdel’s homepage

Sylvia Plath

• Sylvia Plath Homepage

• Sylvia Plath Forum

• The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (Stanford)

• Sylvia at Poets.org

• Sylvia at Neurotic Poets.com

Never Cry Wolf & Wild Harmonies

• Farley Mowat: biographical sketch

• Salon: Mowat Controversy

• The Farley Mowat Ship

• Canada.com

• Canadian Facts & Figures

• Canadian World Domination

•  Hélène Grimaud

• Wolf Conservation Center 

• International Wolf Center

• Nova Online: Wild Wolves

• Wolf Web

• Wolves of the World

 

Special Topics:  Nobel Laureates (Europeans)     Summer II 2008

Nobel Prize.org

History of the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prizes in Literature

• Seamus Heaney

• Sigrid Undset

• Haldor Laxness

• Herman Hesse

• Jose Saramago

Seamus Heaney Page

• IRELAND

• Bog People

• Bodies of the Bogs

Sigrid Undset Page

• NORWAY

Haldor Laxness Page

• ICELAND

Herman Hesse Page

• SWITZERLAND

Jose Saramago Page

• PORTUGAL

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Intro to Creative Writing
Fall 2008

Syllabus

Texts: 

• Imaginative Writing:  The Elements of Craft by Janet Burroway

• An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England by Brock Clarke

Links

• Online Literary Magazines

• Bad Poetry Index

• Sonnet Central

Definitions of Poetic Forms

• Ghazal

• Pantoum

• Sestina

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

Literary Journals

• Agnieszka's Dowry  

• Andirondack Review

• Arkansas Literary Forum

• Eclectica

• Exquisite Corpse

• Poetics.ca
  (journal of poetic theory & practice)

• Stirring

Poets & Writers

• Ai (poetry)

• Isabel Allende (fiction)

• Margaret Atwood (poetry & fiction)

• J. M. Coetzee (fiction)

• Annie Dawid (fiction)

• Sharon Doubiago (non-fiction & poetry)

• Carolyn Forche (poetry)

• Paul Kafka-Gibbons (fiction)

• Yusef Komunyakaa (poetry)

• Wole Soyinka (drama & poetry)

• C. D. Wright (poetry)

• Terry Wright (poetry & fractals)