Shakespeare Essay Assignment

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 [...]

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McCarthy Essay Assignment

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 or character [...]

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1102 Essay Re-write

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 [...]

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Lit Theory Presentations, Fall 2009

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 [...]

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First Pages

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 several [...]

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It’s CMS Time

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 [...]

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Domain Services: Google Apps

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 some [...]

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Secure an Identity

The first task in building your online portfolio should be to secure a domain name and hosting. Consider both of these decisions carefully, as the former will present your professional identity to the world and the latter will control how that identity functions. This project will have the following goals:

Register a domain name
Secure hosting through [...]

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“Liberal” Media?

Media Criticism Web Assignment 3 • Fall 2008
There’s been much talk lately (since 2000) about media bias, especially from the “elitist liberal media.” In this assignment, you will investigate this notion as a group by contributing any of the following that address media bias:

definition (with at least three works cited)
annotated bibliography entry (one book or [...]

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Human Impacts on the Environment

This essay will require you to research human impacts on the environment and present your findings in a 1000-2000 word essay that is properly documented. Your topic should have a local component; i.e., it should have some direct bearing on the environment in Central Georgia. Topics could include, but are not limited to:

Automobiles (electric, hybrid, [...]

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