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	<description>The courseware web site of Dr. Gerald R. Lucas</description>
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		<title>No More Turn It In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are in my in-class section of World Lit II this semester, you have been submitting you papers via Turn It In. from this point forward, we will not be using Turn It In anymore. I have decided that it is more trouble than it&#8217;s worth. I know many, if not all, of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Questions for Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When reading poetry, particularly a new and difficult poem, you might need a bit of help accessing it. Consider the following questions as guides for beginning to understand poetry. Answers to these questions can be used as the basis of classroom or forum discussions.

What do you know about speaker of this poem?
Describe what is happening. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/resources/literature-resources/reading-questions-for-poetry</link>
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		<title>Midterm, Spring 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we head into midterm, I just wanted to give you some reminders before you&#8217;re off to spring break.
The drop date is this Wednesday, March 3. I would recommend speaking to me before dropping, especially if you&#8217;re unsure about your standing my the class.
I&#8217;d like to say a few words about my World Lit class&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/news/midterm-spring-2010</link>
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		<title>Quoting Verse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another aspect to consider when writing about literature is getting your quotations correct. When incorporating quotations from poems into your writing, you must keep the lines exactly as the poet has set them down. Remember, this is what a quotation is: an exact reproduction of the original writing. Take, for example, this quotation from Pope:
What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/resources/literature-resources/quoting-verse</link>
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		<title>First Responses, World Lit 2, Spring 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received 15 responses on Tartuffe via Turn It In. Congratulations for those of you who successfully figured out how to submit a response. If you still need assistance, please see me during my office hours. I had several students try to submit their responses as a comment on this web site or try to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/news/first-responses-world-lit-2-spring-2010</link>
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		<title>Final Exams Graded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my online literature classes and those classes that took the exam online, I have finished grading your submissions and grades will be posted shortly. I wanted to offer examples of how I evaluated each answer. Firstly, you were asked to write a paragraph response as your answer to each question. Some just answered the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/news/final-exams-graded</link>
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		<title>Shakespeare Rewrite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For ENGL 1102. If you choose to do a rewrite on your Titus Andronicus essays, please keep the following in mind.
You must make an appointment with the ARC, take your rewritten paper to the session, and be sure they send confirmation to me of your session. The ARC provides tutoring free-of-charge to MSC students and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/news/shakespeare-rewrite</link>
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		<title>Shakespeare Essay Assignment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my 1102 class. For this essay, you will begin by researching Shakespeare&#8217;s Titus Andronicus. Your job will be to research a particular character and analyze that character&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/assignment/shakespeare-essay-assignment</link>
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		<title>Sentence Fragments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sentence fragment occurs when one or more of the following is true:

there is no verb
there is no subject
the word group is part of a subordinate clause or phrase

A true sentence must contain at least one independent clause: a group of words with a subject and a verb that can stand alone. For example:
We shopped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/resources/faq/sentence-fragments</link>
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		<title>Email Dr. Lucas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to remind students that I use different email addresses for different classes. Please, to get the quickest response from me, use the email address that I have given you on your class syllabus, and no other. I rarely check the &#8220;official&#8221; Macon State email address, so I would discourage you from ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://litmuse.net/content/policy/email-dr-lucas</link>
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