Fall 1998

English / Writing / Rhetoric by Michelle (Rogge) Gannon 
University of South Dakota 

The link above brings you to the Advanced Composition Classes page.  Gannon mentions that the goal of this page is to teach, "advanced English composition class in the Macintosh lab. [and] The purpose of this course is twofold: (1) to build on your written communication skills through the writing/revising process; and (2) to "become comfortable using the Macintosh computer and the Internet while journaling, composing, revising, and performing other writing-related tasks." Here the students use the Internet and Macintoshes to do a Web page or a newsletter.  Within this page we can find the class's (A) syllabus, (B) calendar, links to (C) related materials, (D) web assignments, and student work . 
The pedagogical points covered with this page are as follow: 
 

• (A) Syllabus for Advanced Composition 
• (B) A Writer's Reference (Diane Hacker) Assignments 
• Sketchbook Assignments 
• Results of LISTSERV research conducted by class members 
• (C) Results of USENET research conducted by class members 
• (D) Listservs vs. Newsgroups (Usenet)--Find out which is more popular 

Follow the birds (click on them) to see our critique 
 

Literary Stylistics
Description. Syllabus, calendar, lecture notes, student work, and links to related materials. By Ismail S. Talib, National University of Singapore. 

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It is not possible to do a linguistic analysis of the style of literary works without a grasp of the fundamentals of a particular grammatical model. The linguistic model to be used is Hallidayan systemic grammar, and the basic text for this grammatical approach is Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar. Students will be analysing style in literary works by looking at it in terms of theme-rheme, mood and modality, transitivity, clause complexing and cohesion. They will also be analysing the sound features of poetry, and point-of-view and speech and thought presentation in fictional narratives. In the latter part of the module, students will be using some pragmatic concepts for the analysis of literary texts. The lecture sequence for the abovementioned topics and their corresponding weeks during the semester are given in the lecture schedule. 
 

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