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ENGL 2307

ENGL 2307. 28 January 2014. Email etiquette. Salutation: Dear Ms. Bistline , Ms. Bistline , Body: Professional communication Correct grammar/punctuation/capitalization Clear question/request Check blog for the answer first

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ENGL 2307

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  1. ENGL 2307 28 January 2014

  2. Email etiquette • Salutation: • Dear Ms. Bistline, • Ms. Bistline, • Body: • Professional communication • Correct grammar/punctuation/capitalization • Clear question/request • Check blog for the answer first • Ask yourself whether it will be more useful to visit office hours

  3. Email etiquette con’t • Closing: • Provide your FULL name • Erin Bistline (not just Erin) • DO NOT provide your R#. • Response time: • Please give me 24-48 hours to respond. • Do not email the same question multiple times within that span. • If you have not heard from me in 24-48 hours, talk to me before/after class or during my office hours.

  4. Midterm Essay • 1,000 words • Analysis of: • “The Old Nurse’s Tale” • “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” • “The Turn of the Screw” • “No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-man” • “The Open Door” • “The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House” • Integration of one critical source

  5. Analysis • Focus on how meaning is made • Argue for a single meaning (“The Old Nurse’s Tale” uses the parallel characterizations of Rosamond and her “poor little girl” to show the societal dangers inherent for orphaned and abandoned children in the 19th century.) • Use textual evidence to support your reading • Include the “so what?” We need to know why this reading matters.

  6. Finding sources • Library databases • Look early • Don’t be afraid of ILLIAD • The library • Things called books • Don’t be afraid of ILLIAD • Looking for: • Peer reviewed • Recent (preferably last 10 years) • Reliable • These are the same rules for your presentations!

  7. Washington Irving Biography • Over to Tim Davis!

  8. Historical Context • Washington Irving one of the first and most influential short story writers. (Generally viewed an American genre, but RJ Lyall argues for a Scottish influence to Irving.) • Influenced Hawthorne and Longfellow; to an extent Melville as well (but Melville did not admit it) • Ichabod Crane: The first nerdy hero, sometimes read as representative of the changing literary arts (moving toward gothic romances and sentimental novels such as The Mysteries of Udolphoand Pamela)

  9. Works Cited • Daigrepont, Lloyd M. “Ichabod Crane: Inglorious Man of Letters.” Early American Literature 19.1 (1984): 69-81. Print. • Lyall, RJ. “Intimations of Orality: Scotland, America and the Early Development of the Short Story in English.” Studies in Short Fiction 36.3 (1999): 311-25. Print. • “Washington Irving.” Norton Anthology of American Literature. 6th ed. Vol. B. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003. 978-80. Print.

  10. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” • 1820 (part of a collection of stories The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon) • Created backstory of Diedrich Knickerbocker (including newspaper articles about his disappearance) • Takes place in 1790ish (“thirty odd years ago”)

  11. Cell phone quiz • Who is the narrator of the story? • Who was the headless horseman (according to the legend)? • Describe how Ichabod Crane saw himself. • Describe how Ichabod Crane really was. • Do you believe that Bram was responsible? Why or why not?

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