[Milton-L] Off topic of Milton but relevant to the larger discipline of English

[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

That sounds rather short for both things. Others may have experience with it, but I can only comment based on my undergraduate years.
   
  At Baylor, every student was required to take two years of English. The first year was devoted entirely to writing, using Sheridan Baker's Complete Stylist and reading samples of good writing. First semester was short essays, about 10 of them. Second semester was a research paper with footnotes and bibliography. The second year was literature, with both the third and fourth semesters being a survey of English literature using the Norton Anthology, though we continued writing essays and even another research paper, if I recall.
   
  I thought that this worked rather well, but I didn't really learn how to write a good expository essay with a thesis statement until well into my graduate studies when I was working as a TA and teachcing composition at UC Berkeley.
   
  Jeffery Hodges
   
  

Robert Wiznura <WiznuraR at macewan.ca> wrote:
  Currently, my department is shifting the focus of first year English from a literature course to a writing course. Our current course consists of 70% literature and 30% writing instruction and is a full year. The new "proposal," which will come about no matter what I have to say about it, will divide the course into two half year courses. The first course will consist only of writing instruction while the second half will consist of literature (but still will require 20% writing instruction). I know that many out there already live within this division and my question is simple: does such a division actually improve the reading and writing skills of students?



Dr. Robert Wiznura
Grant MacEwan College
CCC 6-266
(780) 633-3919
wiznurar at macewan.ca


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University Degrees:

Ph.D., History, U.C. Berkeley
(Doctoral Thesis: "Food as Synecdoche in John's Gospel and Gnostic Texts")
M.A., History of Science, U.C. Berkeley
B.A., English Language and Literature, Baylor University

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