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English 002: Introduction to Literature
ENG 002 introduces representative works from major genres, develops students' close reading and analytical writing skills, and promotes appreciation and critical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature.
- Author
- Jill Bonds
- Publisher
- Coalinga College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- Language
- EN
- Category
- English
Contents· 103 sections
- 01: What is Literature
- 1.01: What is Literature
- 1.02: Why Read and Write About Literature
- 1.03: What is Literary Analysis
- 1.04: The Literary Analysis Essay
- 1.05: Determining an Effective Essay Structure
- 1.06: Literary Analysis Arguments
- 1.07: Inferences in Literature
- 1.08: What Is Literary Theory
- 1.09: What is Literary Criticism
- 1.10: Why Study Literary Theory
- 1.11: Literary Terms - A Guide
- 1.12: Conclusion to the Introduction
- 02: Different Types of Literature
- 03: Writing About Literature
- 3.01: The Literary Landscape- Four Major Genres
- 3.02: The Writing Process for Literary Essays
- 3.03: Prewriting for Literature Essays
- 3.04: Writing About Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
- 3.05: Outlining for Literary Essays
- 3.06: Literary Thesis Statements
- 3.07: Essay as Argument
- 3.08: Summarizing vs. Analyzing Literary Works
- 3.09: Essay Type - Literary Response
- 3.10: Essay Type - Literary Analysis
- 3.11: Essay Type - Comparing and Contrasting Literature
- 3.12: Essay Type - Literary Research
- 3.13: How to Perform Literary Research (Navigating Secondary Sources and Library Databases)
- 3.14: Writing About Poetry
- 3.15: Analyzing Poetry
- 3.16: Compare and Contrast Poetry Assignments
- 3.17: Writing About Drama
- 3.18: Literary Essay Titles
- 3.19: Research for Literary Analysis
- 3.20: Developing Analysis
- 3.21: Preparing for Research Knowing Your Thesis
- 3.22: Discovering and Documenting Sources
- 3.23: Approaches to Literary Analysis
- 3.24: Writing as a Process - Breaking it Down
- 3.25: What Is the Writing Process
- 3.26: Why Commit to the Writing Process
- 3.27: What Is Academic Argument
- 3.28: Introducing an Academic Argument
- 3.29: Student Writer at Work- Monica Plattens The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- An Allegory for a Young America
- 3.30: Understanding the Body of Monicas Argument
- 04: Writing about Gender and Sexuality
- 4.01: Feminist Theory- An Overview
- 4.02: Gender Criticism and Queer Theory
- 4.03: Gender Criticism- Masculinity Studies
- 4.04: Week X Women Writers at the end of the 19th Century
- 4.05: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
- 4.06: Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904)
- 4.07: Chopin Kate The Story of an Hour (1894)
- 4.08: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930)
- 4.09: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)
- 05: Writing about Racial Ethnic and Cultural Identity
- 5.01: Postcolonial Racial and Ethnic Theory- An Overview
- 5.02: Writing about Race Ethnic and Cultural Identity- A Process Approach
- 5.03: Strategies for Starting Your Cultural Identity Paper
- 5.04: Writing about History and Culture from a New Historical Perspective
- 5.05: Writing about Racial Ethnic and Cultural Identity (Exercises)
- 5.06: Writing about Racial Ethnic and Cultural Identity (Summary)
- 06: Mexican American Literature
- 07: Native American Literature
- 7.01: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- 7.1.01: From Hope Leslie (5000 words)
- 7.1.02: Reading and Review Questions
- 7.02: William Apess
- 7.2.01: An Indians Looking-Glass for the White Man (3500 words)
- 7.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
- 7.03: James Fenimore Cooper
- 7.3.01: from The Pioneers (10000 words)
- 7.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
- 7.04: The Peyote Cult (Plains)
- 7.05: Of the Girl who Married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
- 7.06: How Glooskap went to England and France (Passamaquoddy)
- 7.07: The Origin of Disease and Medicine
- 7.08: Viracocha and The Coming of the Incas
- 7.09: The Magic Feather
- 7.10: The Island of Skeletons
- 08: African-American Literature
- 8.01: Key Writers
- 8.02: Understanding African American Authors
- 8.03: The Slavery Controversy and Abolitionist Literature
- 8.04: The Church in the Southern Black Community
- 8.05: Explore The Dispersal of Enslaved Africans Across the Atlantic World
- 8.06: What was the Harlem Renaissance
- 8.07: Importance of the Harlem Renaissance
- 8.08: Video- Civil Rights and the 1950s
- 8.09: A Talk to Teachers
- 8.10: Video- Get Christie Love
- 09: MLA Referencing
- 9.01: MLA Documentation and Format
- 9.02: Introduction to MLA Documentation
- 9.03: MLA Signal Phrases
- 9.04: Citing in MLA
- 9.05: Outcome- Writing Ethically
- 9.06: Academic Integrity
- 9.07: Defining Plagiarism
- 9.08: Avoiding Plagiarism
- 9.09: Self Check- Writing Ethically
- 9.10: Readings by H. Morrison
- 9.11: Activity by H. Morrison