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Self-Listening & Envisioning Audience Exercise & Assignment, Jacob Kose

Open Educational Resources

This assignment and exercise encourages students to pick a formative story, artifact, individual, or moment in their acquisition of language and/or literacy. Students record themselves telling this story, then type that recording, and make choices about how to edit that text.Instructors may invite students to read these aloud, and/or peer edit. Students may also submit reflections and comment on each others' reflection.

I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue In F Minor, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Engl 211w: Intro To Nonfiction (Points Of Entry And/Or Exit Wounds), Heather Simon

Open Educational Resources

We will explore the notion of creativity as it pertains to new ways of engaging familiar topics and carving out frameworks for exploring uncharted territory. We will actively read and respond to works of creative nonfiction to enrich our understanding of structure, style, and language. Assigned readings will demonstrate how creative nonfiction can encompass a variety of forms (think: reportage, braided essay, erasure, visual essay) and draw from both research and experience to offer a unique perspective and elicit an emotional response. We will develop our own creative nonfiction toolbox through a series of reflections, creative exercise, and projects. We …

Creative Writing Introduction, Keith Gandal

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Qcq Discussion Protocol, Michael Maslankowski

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This is a protocol designed to help students led and run discussions with a text that has been assigned to them. This protocol helps student prepare for in-class discussion by giving them a protocol to follow that allows everyone to fully participate in the discussion.

Introduction To Creative Writing, Shamecca A. Harris

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This introductory creative writing course asks students to explore their literary interests and proclivities through regular reading and writing activities designed to promote an in-depth understanding and appreciation for the craft of writing. Students will intellectually engage with both contemporary and classic authors within the main genres of creative writing and use the craft elements discussed in class to compose their own original poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction work. While studying various forms of creative writing, emphasis will be placed on the creative process of writing while encouraging students to find their writing voice. Student responsibilities include workshop participation, several …

Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero

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The assignment helps students individually build a usable, expanding vocabulary of terms and concepts, enabling each to further contribute to the ongoing, evolving written, oral, and visual conversations centered on the use of and thought about animals for food, clothing, work, entertainment, experimentation, imagery, and companionship.

Low Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2150 (Writing Ii), Maxine Krenzel

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Welcome to English 2150, a writing and reading intensive course that will introduce you to the practice and process of conducting original research. This class will walk you through the research process step-by-step, from drafting an initial research question, to reading and analyzing archival and secondary sources, and eventually mapping out your findings in a final research portfolio. You will learn over the course of the semester that the research process begins with simply asking a question that addresses a topic or issue that impacts you in some way; it is my hope that by the end of the semester, …

Translator Of Soliloquies: Fugues In The Key Of Dissociation, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

Chu, Seo-Young. “Translator of Soliloquies: Fugues in the Key of Dissociation” (chapbook). Black Warrior Review 46.2, Spring 2020.

"Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor", Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

In this lyric essay/work of creative nonfiction (listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in Best American Essays 2020), Seo-Young Chu uses poetry, autotheory, and creative nonfiction to explore the generational trauma/postmemory han she inherited from her parents and the importance of destigmatizing mental illness through dialogue.

A Refuge For Jae-In Doe: Fugues In The Key Of English Major, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

"A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major"

Author(s):

Seo-Young Chu (see profile)

Date:

2017

Subject(s):

Feminism, Creative nonfiction, Asian American literature, Sonnets, Social justice, Trauma

Item Type:

Essay

Tag(s):

#MeToo, Stanford, women in academia, early american

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/cp82-8f39

As Close As You'll Ever Be, Seamus O'Scanlain

Publications and Research

Short story collection featuring Victor McGowan - set in Galway, Belfast, Boston and New York. Irish crime fiction noir collection.

Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

Kafkaesque, Orwellian, eerie, surreal, bizarre, grotesque, alien, wacky, fascinating, dystopian, illusive, theatrical, antic, haunting, apocalyptic: these are just a few of the vaguely science-fictional adjectives that are now associated with North Korea. At the same time, North Korea has become an oddly convenient trope for a certain aesthetic – an uncanny opacity; an ominous mystique – that many writers and artists have exploited to generate striking science-fictional effects in texts with little or no connection to North Korean reality. (The 2002 Bond film Die another Day, for example, draws from North Korea’s science-fictional aura to animate North Korean super-villains who …

Reclamation: The Value Of Black Gay Writing Lgbtq Studies Panel, Lisa C. Moore

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

How gratifying to see a packed house on October 14, 2008 for a discussion of Reclamation: The Value of Black Gay Writing! Co-sponsored by CLAGS and Freedom Train Productions (www.freedomtrainproductions.org), the panel of scholars—Terry Rowden, Professor of African-American Literature, College of Staten Island (CUNY), Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies/American Studies, Yale University, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Ph.D. student, African-American/American Studies, Yale University—and me, publisher Lisa C. Moore (Redbone Press) came to discuss the impact of black gay writers on the community and academia... and to bear witness, reclaim and critique the work within the first …

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Indigo, Spring, 1994, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Editor-in-chief: Vanesa Yi-Perez, Associate Editor: Humaira Qureshi, Assistant Editor: Russell Alvarez, Editors: Ivy Gosine, Tanya Naiken, Verai Ramsammy Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Fink

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Indigo Spring 1992, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

EDITOR-IN CHIEF: FARAH FAROOQi, ASSOCIATE EDITOR: OFELIA CHI HAM, FICTION EDITOR: LIZETTE FLORES, P0ETRY EDITOR: SAIFUL MITHU, SHARON GARCIA, SANDRA PUENTE, FACULTY ADVISOR: DR. TOM FINK

Laguardia Literary Magazine: The Window Spring 1988 Vol. 2, No. 2, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Editor-in-Chief: Tanya Pamphile, Associate Editor: Sharon Madison, Staff: Mabel Bermudez, Terri Busso, Tasha Staggers, Neli Stinga, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Thomas Fink

Laguardia Literary Magazine: The Window, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Editor-in-Chief: Denise Winston, Associate Editor: Tanya Pamphile, Staff: Carolyn Cofie, Peggy Diaz, Sharon Madison, Artist: Terri Busso, Extended Day Liaison: Arlene Alvarado, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Fink

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Brainstorm, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Fall 1984, Vol. 1, No. 2 - Brainstorm - Editor-in-Chief: Ishmeal Cooper; Associate Editor: Anita Penino; Associate Editor: William Gumbs; Staff: Ephraim Moore; Tasha Staggers; Carolyn Young; Dr. Thomas Fink, Faculty Advisor

Laguardia Literary Magazine: Brain-Storm, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

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Editor-in-Chief: Regina Karen Young, Associate Editor: Mario Arreaga, Associate Editor: William Gumbs, Staff: Michelle Agate, Michalis Andreou, Irene D'Emilio, Norma Earle, Stephanie Gooding, Ephraim Moore, Dr. Thomas Fink, Faculty Advisor