Conference focus is your successful completion of a research-based critical essay, one that meets a level of graduate-level sophistication in English-related disciplines. Given that aim, seminar sessions will focus interactively on various matters and standards of professional essay production and revision. Latter course sessions will include practice in delivering the professional essay in person within a simulated scholarly conference-style setting. As with all 494 Honors courses this year, our 496 sessions will be held in the English Computer-Integrated-Courses (CIC) Program’s suite of wired seminar/lab classrooms, allowing for efficient and collaborative file sharing, in-person and online peer revision and discussion, scholarly database access, and multimedia projection. All will enhance your potential to build community in scholarly enterprise while improving reading and listening audience engagement, necessary steps in the academic publication process.
Course Text: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th edition
[Note: please purchase this new edition so as to insure personal access to the accompanying Web site: www.mlahandbook.org]