! Writing Reminder: A common problem that you have in your writing submitted so far is coherence, and related to it, unity. Remember your paragraph training in English I and II. When writing your responses and final exam, organize your essay so that it has a main argument and that all paragraphs and illustrative examples and details support and develop it as a unified whole. See some of the following for review.

• "Writing Prose," Yale University (2001)
• "Unity and Coherence in Essays," Writing Center, Pasco-Hernando State College
  
• "Paragraph Development," Washington University
• Nancy Hutchison, "Unity and Coherence," Academic Advanced Writing: A Guide for Writers (2020)
  

! The Glass Menagerie: If you prefer handling physical paper when reading the play and making notes by hand, the hard copy of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie is available for purchase (Call 09 2621 0992 to order.) at khun On's shop near the security desk of Maha Vajirunhis Building (yellow starred on the map), Faculty of Science; hours: M–F 8–5. Several copies are also available to check out at the Arts and Central libraries.

! Course Material Updates: There have been recent updates to the course reading on our section Blackboard page, among them, supplementary material, additional Introduction to the novel sections, short stories, and Table of Contents and Works Cited edits.

! Class Preparedness:

• Reading: If you prefer hard copies of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (35 baht loose leaf, 70 baht spiral bound) and Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy (45 baht loose leaf, 80 baht spiral bound), you may purchase them from khun On (Call 09 2621 0992 to order your copy). Her shop is near the security desk of Maha Vajirunhis Building (yellow starred on the map), Faculty of Science; hours: M–F 8–5. Please bring exact change for speedy transaction.
  
• Classcast venue options: Instead of BRK 414 that I mentioned last week as a quiet space where you can attend class, here are some places prepared for your use:
• Thesis room, 3rd floor, Arts Library (Maha Vajiravudh Building): I've reserved this room every Monday and Wednesday for our section. It's the room immediately on your right at the top of the stairs. Ask staff if you need help finding your way there.
• M level, BRK Building: This is space with seating and long desks for any Arts student to attend online classes with their notebooks or other devices.
  
• Audio visual section, Learning Commons
  
• What to Bring:
  
• A computer: The nature of our class sessions often requires typing extended responses, navigating several programs and web pages, and viewing passage excerpts and detailed images. A smartphone will not be effective for any of these activities. If you don't have a notebook or large format tablet with full keyboard, reserve a computer at the BRK Computer Center for class.
  
• Head- or earphones with built-in microphone: On the Blackboard Collaborate platform, when you are videoconferencing in too close proximity with another session, there will be audio echoes that disturb livecasting classes within range. Using earphones with dedicated microphones (instead of your computer speaker and mic) eliminate this.
  
• Online material: See the Detailed Schedule and download items in the Course Packet folder of our Blackboard course page for initial readings.

Class Time: M 9:30–11:00, W 8:00–9:30

Class Location: Class sessions are conducted online via Blackboard except those indicated below, which are in-person and designated with pink asterisks on the detailed schedule page.

• Monday, September 14 (MCS 401/18)
• Monday, September 28 (MCS 401/18)
• Wednesday, September 30 (MCS 401/5)
• Monday, October 5 (MCS 401/18; optional)
• Wednesday, October 7 (MCS 401/5; optional)
• Monday, October 26 (MCS 401/18)
• Wednesday, November 18 (BRK 414)
• Monday, November 23 (BRK 414)
• Wednesday, November 25 (BRK 414)
  

Required Texts

• Course packet (introduction to the genres, literary terms explanations and examples, literary reading selections)
  
• Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1944, New Directions, 1999)
• Stephen Karam, Sons of the Prophet (2011)
  
• Ali Smith, Boy Meets Girl (2007, Canongate, 2015)
  

Detailed Schedule 

Syllabus

Requirements and Expectations

• Reading Responses: Aside from occasional writing of other kinds, reading responses are useful exercises that attempt to explain, discuss or comment on a question that you pose about the reading. No more than one page double-spaced is expected per response but it should be well thought out. See samples.

• Attendance and Participation: Discussion of the texts will be a big part of this class and students are encouraged to express their opinions, share observations and ask questions. Come prepared to discuss the reading material.

• Assignments include reading responses, two tests, and a final exam.

• Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. 2^nd ed. Routledge, 2004. Print. (CL  820.9 K63I)

• Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Fiction. 3^rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1998. Print. (library has 2^nd ed.)

• Undergraduate Guide for Studying Literature (How well do you understand what you have read?, keeping a reading journal, critical terms for discussing literature, guidelines for writing essays, what the grade on your essay means, what to do with your marked essay, marking symbols and abbreviations; also has downloadable pdf file)

• Literary Resources on the Net

• What Is Plagiarism? (friendly explanation of plagiarism with examples from Georgetown University; make sure you read the entire article; you will be severely penalized for plagiarism in this course)

• The UVic Writer's Guide (well-organized, easy to follow guide with examples)

• The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab, includes the writing process, grammar and mechanics, literary analysis and criticism, writing about poetry)

• How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find

• Basic Steps in Writing a Literature Paper

• Citation Styles Handbook: MLA

• MLA Style FAQ

• Paper Guidelines 1 and 2

• Literary Criticism: Principles

• Model Criticism (some essays by F. R. Leavis; a couple of obsolete links)

• English Help

• Key to Correction Marks

• Hay Festival

• Poetry World

• Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry (video clips; Feb. 4, 2009; You might enjoy the play with sound, for example, in "Velimir Khlebnikov's Word Transformations")

• Life and Poetry

• East of the Web

• Drama Glossary (see also Drama Glossary, Terms for Discussing Drama, Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms, Glossary of Basic Literary Terms)

• The Web Concordances and Workbooks

• Poets on Poets (audio clips of poets reading the work of other poets, sometimes with commentary)

• Lannan Audio Archives