Dr. Kristi Siegel Assistant Professor English Department Mount Mary College siegelkr@mtmary.edu

Note: Although you may call me at the college or at home or contact me by e-mail at any time, my specific office hours for the online class will be from 1:00-3:00pm on Mondays and from 5:00-600pm on Tuesday evenings.

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Module One - August 28 to September 19 Personal Essay Paper Weekly Schedule and Assignments for Module One NiceNet Writing Links: Developing a Thesis Using a Hook Common Grammatical Terms Engfish Handout Sample Narrative (Kippi Story) Pre-Writing Techniques Using Effective Description Pacing Your Narrative Using Dialogue Effectively Eliminating Cliches

Module Two - September 19 to October 17 Literary Analysis Paper Writing Links: Poetry Terms Narrative (Short Story) Terms Modern Literary Theory (recommended only if you're feeling ambitiious!) Jane Thompson site for Literary Study - On-Book Emily Dickinson Edith Wharton Nathaniel Hawthorne Flannery O'Connor Writing the Literary Analysis (Seamus Cooney's page) Getting Started (advice from the College of William and Mary Weekly Schedule and Assignments Nicenet

Module Three - October 17 to November 9 Research Paper on Women's Leadership Weekly Schedule and Assignments Nicenet Writing Links: Writing Research Papers - A Step-by-Step List Backing Up Assertions Interviews - Effective Questions and Incorporating the Interview into your Paper Using Quotations Correctly and Effectively Evaluating Sources on the Internet Evaluating Content in the Source APA Format - Internal Citations and Bibliography MLA Format - Internal Citations and Works Cited Page Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Module Four - November 9 to December 4 Cultural Critique Paper Writing Links Weekly Schedule and Assignments

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