Category: English

  • English Question

    Week 4 Discussion, Test Taking

    Please read the chapter on studying, memory and test taking and write a minimum of 100 words on any of these topics. For your second posting, reply to another student. Here are the options for your discussion:

    1. Students often say, I am not a good test taker. What ideas in this chapter would be helpful to this student?

    2. If you have difficulties with text anxiety, take a look at this video and summarize the key points: .

    3. How do you study for a math test?

    4. What is the ideal way to review for a test?

    5. What are some disadvantages of cramming for a test and how can you avoid cramming?

    6. What is your best idea for studying for exams?

    7. Comment on another student’s post.

    Discussion Board Guidelines, this applies to all discussions

    Requirements: Follow

  • Final Draft

    Strict format of this type of writing attached in the files it have to be the same exact format , make sure you write the final draft based on the full grade in rubric requirements

    NO SOURCES NEEDED ONLY APA 7TH format

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Document (3).docx, Essay 1 Final Draft Rubric-F25.docx

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  • Social Media Impacting on Society

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  • Lack 0f participation in cultural activity

    letter to the editor of local newspaper highlighting your concern of the lack of participation in your culture activity
  • College Admission essay

    Write one essay of no more than three double-spaced pages in response to the prompt below. Your essay can include some description, but it should also demonstrate that you have critically reflected on the profession and your potential place within it. Please write in a concise, formal, professional style. If you make generalizations or assertions, be sure to provide support for them. In one integrated essay, thoughtfully discuss each of the areas identified below:

    • Why you are interested in the profession in which you want to pursue graduate work and, if applicable, the particular concentration within that profession.
    • Your knowledge of issues and trends in this profession or field.
    • What areas and topics you hope to study in depth and why.
    • Any related professional or personal experiences you have had, including opportunities to collaborate with other professionals, and how these experiences make you particularly well-suited for the profession.
    • Potential challenges and opportunities associated with diversity you think are relevant to the profession you are pursuing. Be sure to explain what you mean by diversity (related, for example, to race, gender, age, sexual orientation, language, disability) and how it may pose challenges or present opportunities.
  • College Admission essay

    Write one essay of no more than three double-spaced pages in response to the prompt below. Your essay can include some description, but it should also demonstrate that you have critically reflected on the profession and your potential place within it. Please write in a concise, formal, professional style. If you make generalizations or assertions, be sure to provide support for them. In one integrated essay, thoughtfully discuss each of the areas identified below:

    • Why you are interested in the profession in which you want to pursue graduate work and, if applicable, the particular concentration within that profession.
    • Your knowledge of issues and trends in this profession or field.
    • What areas and topics you hope to study in depth and why.
    • Any related professional or personal experiences you have had, including opportunities to collaborate with other professionals, and how these experiences make you particularly well-suited for the profession.
    • Potential challenges and opportunities associated with diversity you think are relevant to the profession you are pursuing. Be sure to explain what you mean by diversity (related, for example, to race, gender, age, sexual orientation, language, disability) and how it may pose challenges or present opportunities.
  • The Shadow Self: The Black Cat as a Symbol of Conscience and…

    The paper needs to be between 4-6 pages long with at least 6 references. I need it double spaced in MLA format. I want the paper to be about The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe and how it describes evil and human nature.

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  • Paper II: (A Midsummer Nights Dream), (1200 words)

    the essay has to be specfically of the play that we went to see: A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Globe (Sam Wanamaker Theatre) , 7:30pm LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.

    What the Paper Is

    The course description states that the aim is:

    • To understand Shakespeare in literary and in performance terms
    • To learn how to write theatre reviews
    • To analyze how productions transform Shakespeare for contemporary audiences
    • 2026SP Shakespeare in London (3…

    So Paper II is a theatre review of the production of A Midsummer Nights Dream that you attended.

    Required Focus of the Essay

    From the reviewing guidelines in the syllabus:

    1. Interpretation Is Central

    Interpretation is the most important part of a review.

    2026SP Shakespeare in London (3…

    You must explain:

    • What the production was trying to say about the play
    • How it interpreted the text
    • What themes it brought to the foreground
    • How its staging choices shaped meaning

    2. Analyze the Production (Not Just the Text)

    You are expected to examine elements such as:

    • The stage and venue
    • Set design
    • Costumes
    • Lighting
    • Music
    • Props
    • Pacing
    • Interval placement
    • Acting style
    • Casting choices
    • Cuts, rearrangements, or additions to the text
    • 2026SP Shakespeare in London (3…

    You do not need to cover all of these but you must select and analyze the most significant ones.

    3. Method and Approach

    The syllabus instructs you to:

    • Provide careful factual observation
    • Offer specific description
    • Avoid sweeping judgments like wonderful or awful
    • Minimize excessive use of I felt statements
    • Be analytical rather than purely evaluative
    • 2026SP Shakespeare in London (3…

    A review is described as:

    An analytical attempt to describe and explain how the performance worked.

    2026SP Shakespeare in London (3…

    What Is Not Required

    There is:

    • No separate prompt question
    • No required secondary source citation stated
    • No prescribed structure
    • No demand for external research

    The assignment is strictly:

    • A 1200-word analytical theatre review
    • Focused on the production of A Midsummer Nights Dream

    INTERPRETATION (MOST IMPORTANT)

    • What was this production trying to say?
    • Did it emphasize romance? Chaos? Cruelty? Sexuality? Power?
    • Did it treat the play as light comedy or something darker?
    • Did the interpretation arise naturally from the text?
    • Or were ideas imposed onto it?
    • How did it speak to a contemporary audience?

    ACTORS & AUDIENCE

    Casting

    • Age, gender, race choices?
    • Any cross-casting or doubling?
    • Did casting create new meanings?

    Acting Style

    • Psychological realism?
    • Stylized or performative?
    • Did actors shift styles between worlds?

    ActorAudience Relationship

    • Direct address?
    • Audience involvement?
    • How did the audience react?
    • Did reactions align with your reading of the play?

    TEXTUAL TREATMENT

    • Were scenes cut?
    • Was language altered?
    • Were there additions?
    • Did performance reveal new meanings in the language?
    • Did certain speeches land differently live than on the page?

    EVALUATION

    • How successfully did the elements work together?
    • Which choices were most effective?
    • Which were less convincing?
    • What does this production add to our understanding of A Midsummer Nights Dream?
    • How does it sit within todays cultural context?
  • Formative Essay

    Guidance for Formative Essay

    The best poems have a path and characters and that is enough. ~Alice Oswald

    Alice Oswalds analogy between poetry and gardens may be helpfully extended to essays, too! Your first essay for this course is a commentary essay of 1500 words on a poem (or excerpt, if a long poem) by one of the poets covered in the class thus far. Your essay will be a guide through the garden of the poem, providing a clear path (i.e., your argument, which will suggest the pattern of the poem as a whole) and pausing along the way to consider specific characters or features of the poem (i.e., the concrete details of the poem that constitute the expressive pattern you hope to illumine for your reader).

    Please integrate two secondary sources into your commentary and include an in-text citation when referencing (author, pg. #).

    The Hodgson Study Guide Notes pp. 16-20 (Hodgson, pp. 218-232) provide very valuable guidance for writing your essay from beginning to end. For this exercise, please do not rely on generative AI study guides/writing tools. I am not looking for technical mastery in your commentary but your developing grasp of how poetry works, its meaning, and your relation to it. A few highlights from Hodgson below:

    A successful commentary involves managing to tell the story of the poem (in terms of its form, not just its content.

    An essay is a chance for you to substantiate your personal response.

    Your reader wants to see that you can pay patient attention to a poems details and communicate that attention in an orderly manner.

    The starting point is not abstract planning but attentive reading.

    Make use of the questions under How do you develop ideas? as a starting point.

    Dont forget as you develop your ideas to pause along the way and ask: What are my own thoughts, feelings, preconceptions regarding the issue at hand? How does this poem affirm, clash with, surprise or refine my preconceptions?; Does the poem react appropriately and imaginatively to its situation? Does it move you?

    In a close-reading essay, the challenge is to find a shape that organises your observation of local details into a coherent whole.

    please find attached the secondary source and another secondary source listed:

    SECONDARY:

    Kristine Bell, Word and World: Bodily Perception in the Narrative Non-fiction of Kathleen Jamie and Nan Shepherd in Northern Scotland, 2022-11, Vol.13 (2): 130-151.

    Samantha Walton, The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought (London: Bloomsbury, 2020). (online access via Hesburgh Library)

    PRIMARY:

    The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (London: Canongate Books Ltd, 2011).

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Bell Kirsteen – Word World Perception Shepherd and Jamie.pdf, N Shepherd Poems.pdf

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