Progress Report for ___________

ENG 203: Introduction to Literature
Spring 2000
Professor Mark Canada

Please make a copy of this form and use it to write comments and questions about your work in this course. After each conference, I will complete one of these reports and share it with you. I hope that these reports not only will provide you with detailed responses to your work in the class, but will help you to capitalize on your strengths and improve in other areas.

Deeper appreciation of language and literature: Our primary objective is to expand our understanding of how words in print make meaning. You will become conversant with many linguistic and bibliographic terms (diction, dialect, folio), formal features (character foil, motif), and genres (lyric poem, Gothic short story) and will consider the ways that form shapes meaning.

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Broader understanding of the humanities: To study literature is to study life. As we immerse ourselves in these works and the historical periods in which they were written, we will become more adept at analyzing human thought (perception, motivation, relation), philosophy (free will, determinism, good, evil), and social issues (racism, feminism, economics).

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Expanded cultural literacy: Because of the allusive nature of all language, particularly literature, names constitute a crucial part of a person's vocabulary. As we study these novels and their context, you will expand your cultural vocabulary to include the names of many people and characters (Dante, Iago), places (Jerusalem, Globe Theatre), events (scientific revolution, American Civil War), and movements (realism, Harlem Renaissance).

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Reading: As we read this challenging literature, you not only will expand your vocabulary and your ability to extract meaning from sophisticaed syntax, but also will learn to infer information about audience and purpose, thus preparing yourself to interpret the complex, often veiled messages you encounter in law, business, and the media.

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Research: You will learn to complement the knowledge you glean in class with knowledge you gather on your own through research. In addition to becoming familiar with standard literary reference materials (The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The MLA Bibliography), you will polish several general research skills (paraphrasing, quoting, documenting).

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Communication: In a variety of assignments and other activities, you will develop essential writing skills (argumentation, organization, editing).

• Content: The project should thoroughly and insightfully address its subject with accurate, credible, timely, and relevant information. If the project is supposed to be argumentative, it should state a clear, substantive, contestable, and precise claim early and support this claim with appropriate evidence.
• Clarity: The project should present information in a clear, logical fashion. In particular, paragraphs generally should begin with precise topic sentences, followed by clear, well-organized sentences that support the topic sentence. The writer should use transitional words and phrases effectively to guide the reader through the information.
• Readability: The project should engage the reader with lively, concise writing and should generally lack typographical errors, as well as lapses in tone, register, punctuation, spelling, word choice, and grammar. The project should effectively incorporate source material with proper use of attribution, paraphrases, and quotations. Longer projects should begin with an engaging introduction and include a satisfying conclusion.
• Format: Parenthetical citations and the bibliography or list of works cited should conform to MLA style. The project also should conform to any particular format requirements set by the instructor.

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Technology: To complement these other skills, you will learn to make effective use of technology to find and share information. By the end of the course, you will be able to find material on the World Wide Web, communicate via a listserv or an online forum, and design a Web site.

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