LitMUSE

In addition to reading Frank Herbert’s Dune in its entirety, find a critical article or book review about Herbert’s Dune in Galileo. Print the article, then read it. In a paragraph, summarize the critic’s main point and cite the article correctly using MLA citation style. Bring the article and your summary with you to class [...]

In the following forum, consider one of the following for your initial thread posting. Identify and discuss a major or minor theme. What is a primary concern of the literary text? How is it identified within the text? What does the text say about this theme? Analyze a major or minor character. What is the [...]

[Note: This is an assignment for my Spring 2010 World Literature 2, in-class section.] For this assignment, you will construct a wiki entry on Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. The completed wiki will take the form of a study guide to assist other students like yourselves when studying this work. Since this is a new [...]

For my 1102 class. For this essay, you will begin by researching Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Your job will be to research a particular character and analyze that character’s importance within the play; characters will be assigned in class on 10/19. You might consider approaching this assignment as if you were cast as the character for [...]

For my 1102 class. For this assignment, you will write a either an essay response or a book review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Response Find at least two critical articles (preferably more) on McCarthy’s The Road. Read the articles to find any similarities that the critics address about the novel. You’re to choose any theme [...]

For this assignment, you will be rewriting your in-class essay from last week and turning it into a formal essay. Therefore, it must be word-processed and structured according to MLA standards. Find at least two critical articles to use as secondary sources and cite them correctly in your essay according to MLA. Be sure to [...]

Below are student assignments for their presentations in Literary Theory. I think that most received their first choices, but a couple were assigned something other than either of their choices. Please review your assignment, and if it is not acceptable, present me with alternates at your earliest convenience via email or in-person. The specific dates [...]

If you are in my Writing for Digital Media class, you now have a professional domain name, working email for the domain, and a functional content management system installed on the domain. Having achieved all of this, you still ostensibly do not have much to show for it. You now must add content. There are [...]

After you have chosen your domain name, purchased hosting, and did some initial setup on your ISP, it’s time to get serious. For this part of Writing for Digital Media, you will need to research and install a content management system, or CMS, as the main component of your web site. A CMS provides a [...]

First off, I have added a category link to the right for digital media. All posts specifically made for Writing for Digital Media this semester will be filed under this category. Now that you have secured a domain name and hosting, the next step in your your online portfolio odyssey will be to set up [...]