Details for all assignments will be posted here well before the due date.

Short Assignment #1 (Close Reading)

            Close Reading Example

Short Assignment #2 (OED)

Short Assignment #3 (close reading)

Short Assignment #4 (making connections)

Short Assignment #5 (following footnotes)

Essay 1 (including tips and options)

Essay 2 (including all lead-up assignments)

Writing advice from They Say, I Say, including argument templates

Here’s the link to the part of the Baruch library website for the Oxford English Dictionary. If you’re off-campus, you’ll have to log in: OED

Jack Lynch’s handy guide to eighteenth-century language is here

I also endorse the advice on Jack Lynch’s site on How to Get an ‘A’ on an English Paper.

A few resources on close reading:

From the Harvard Writing Center

On close reading poetry

Things to be looking for when reading