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 Current Courses​

English 414A Fall 2020: American Film to 1945
Course outline: syllabus
​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

​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 135 Summer 2020: Academic Reading and Writing
English 414B spring 2020: American Film from 1945
English 439A spring 2020: Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Studies
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