Download ENGLISH 2333 – WORLD LITERATURE I

ENGLISH 2332 – WORLD LITERATURE I - READING THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY
Please follow these ordered instructions for the most effective use of your academic energies: 1.
Read carefully the introduction to each period and author before reading the primary work. These detailed discussions and biographies provide a intellectual blueprint for your personal understanding and analysis. The course web site also links Norton Study Plans (Prepare > Read > Connect) to each major period with purposeful summaries (notes and text), audio glossaries to foreign names, maps, additional timelines, music, and reading comprehension quizzes. As much of the literature in this course originates from languages and cultures both ancient and distant from your own, internalizing the material in these period and author introductions, coupled with following the web‐based study plans, will ease the initial anxiety and ego‐shock at exploring new forms of literature. 2.
Read the 'Response Paper' assignments (posted on the course web site) for each literary selection before beginning reading. This strategy will allow you to search for key ideas and support examples with which to support your written responses. With the response paper and essay prompts in mind, develop a simple note system (pencil, pen, page point, post‐it tabs, highlighter, etc)to mark any support examples that may be relevant to response paper prompts. 3.
As you read a specific work, always stop and review the footnotes for each word or idea. Although these notes may appear to slow you down, they actually generate a quicker cumulative understanding of the work, thus providing you with a greater confidence when you write. The great advantage and design of the Norton Anthology is the immediate access to notes and explanations at the bottom of each page. 4.
Always have a reference dictionary (such as the recommended Merriam­Webster in the textbook list) for looking up new words. Although most of the texts are translations, the vocabulary of each translator is rich and complex. As translations are attempts to realize more fully the original sound and sense of each work, translators explore the full range of the English language in order to heighten your comprehension and reading pleasure. The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language ( the OED ) is also available through your CougarWeb account access to our library databases. 5.
If you find a particular period or author interesting or engaging, you may always pursue a larger reading plan for future intellectual growth and pleasure by purchasing the primary work from which the Norton Anthology draws its resources. I have links each work to the specific text available from either Amazon or Barnes & Noble bookseller web sites.