From the archives

In the past few semesters I have accumulated around 200 posts on my class blogs. Although these were introductory literature courses and my comments subsequently geared towards a somewhat less experienced level of student, these posts nonetheless offer concrete examples and baseline advice about what I'm looking for. If you have a few minutes to kill and you're looking to kill them productively, you might click through one or two of these posts:

• Hebdomadals
  
  
  
  • General notes about successful hebdomadals
    
  • Strong answers to Hebdomadal 1 (167, Fall 05)
    
  • Strong answers to Hebdomadal 2
    
  • A strong answer to Hebdomadal 5
    
  • Strong answers to Hebdomadal 6
    
  • Notes and a strong answer to Hebdomadal 1 (168, Spring 06)
    
  • Strong answers to Hebdomadal 3
    
  • Strong answers to Hebdomadal 7
    
  • Strong answers to Hebdomadal 9
    
  • A strong answer to Hebdomadal 1 (167, Fall 06)
    
  • Two strong answers to Hebdomadal 2
    
  • A smorgasbord of exemplary hebdomadals
    
  
  
• Essays
  
  
  
  • A strong first essay
    
  • Things that lowered essay grades
    
  • How to structure your essays
    
  • Citation and more citation
    
  • Word use
    
  • Apostrophes
    
  • Formatting
    
  
  
• Exams
  
  
  
  • Strong IDs on the midterm (167, Fall 05)
    
  • Strong IDs on the final
    
  • Strong final essays
    
  • A couple strong midterm essays and one more (168, Spring 06)
    
  • Some suggestions about writing strong exam essays (167, Fall 06)
    
  • Strong answers to final exam IDs (167, Fall 06)
    
  
  
• Other
  
  
  
  • Using dictionaries well
    
  
  

Prof. Ortiz-Robles taught both the English 167 classes listed above; the examples from those particular archives might therefore be the most immediately relevant.

(An earlier version of this post appeared here.)