Lincoln Z. Shlensky
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English 439A Spring 2020
Course outline:
syllabus
439A Research Proposal and Essay
assignment sheet
Group video project
assignment instructions
Peer editing
worksheet
439A assignment
submission link
(MS Word format only, please)
English 414B Spring 2020
414B
Quiz 10
Course outline:
syllabus
414B
Research Proposal and Essay
assignment sheet
Peer-Editing
worksheet
Understanding
film narrative
techniques
The Hollywood Classical Narrative:
Key features
Film
terminology for academic writing
Purdue OWL: getting started with the
Writing Process
Purdue OWL:
Developing a Thesis
(for fiction, film, and similar media)
Purdue OWL:
Building an Argument
Research proposal:
successful example
Research essay:
successful examples
An
example
of an MLA Works Cited section
414B a
ssignment
submission link
(MS Word format only, please)
General Interest
The Nightmare of Citation
Meditation for Students
A basic list of 31
literary devices
(or techniques)
A longer list of
87 literary devices
An even
longer list of literary devices
The
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
online (UVic library access)
A basic list of 9
literary elements
for students
Archive
Selected syllabi from Dr. Shlensky's previous courses
English 414a fall 2019: American Film to 1945
English 146 fall 2019:
Contemporary Literature (Academic Writing Requirement)
English 581 spring 2019 Graduate seminar on postcolonialism and intertextuality
English 203 fall 2017: Introduction to American Literature
English 581 summer 2016: Graduate seminar on terror, film, literature
English 438 fall 2014: Postcolonial literature and theory
CSPT 500 spring 2014: Postcolonial Cinema, Diasporic Hollywood
English 475 spring 2012: North American Modern Jewish Literature
English 201 fall 2011: Modernism
English 581 summer 2011: Postcolonial Caribbean literature
English 466 spring 2010: Cultural Studies
English 200C fall 2008: Victorian Literature