Fiction Assignment
You may be asking yourself, where will I find my outside sources for this assignment? The library has resources that you can use!
To learn about the literature resources databases and other specialized databases at the library, check out the Find Articles page (over on the left-hand side).
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database that covers a broad range of topics. It can be a good place to start your research. Do you need some background on your topic? Credo Reference is a good place to search for background information.
Poetry Assignment
The software and sites featured here will help you create a poster for your assignment.
All Middlesex students have access to Powerpoint online through Office 365. Not sure how to find it? Either use the link provided in this box or go to office.com and sign in with your NetID and password. When you are in, look at the bar on the left hand side. You will see the Powerpoint icon - go ahead and click on that, and you will be able to access Powerpoint online.
All Middlesex Students have access to Microsoft Publisher. You will need to download this software if you would like to use it. To download Publisher, go to office.com and sign in with your NetID and password. You will see a button on the right hand side of the screen that reads "Install Apps." Click the button to begin downloading Microsoft Publisher.
Need help using Powerpoint or Publisher? Contact Landi Hou at lhou@mxcc.edu or 860-343-5771 for tutoring.
Design a Poster in Powerpoint
Drama Assignment
"The twentieth century rhetorician Kenneth Burke posits that there is an “unending conversation” occurring throughout history, and his illustration of this conversation is helpful in understanding how one joins a conversation of ideas:
Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion has already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.
In this analogy, the other party-goers are the authors of primary and secondary texts that an author engages in a paper, and the person writing the research paper is the one joining the conversation. However, the student in this case has many more sources to choose from than just a few in a single conversation. There are many voices in hundreds of conversations, and it is up to you to choose which ones are most important and worth including in your argument." (From Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research.)
Looking to make connections between your reading and society? The databases and websites listed here can help you with your research!
- Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window Bloom's Literature contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors and their works throughout history, as well as full-length videos of classic plays and films. Bloom's Literature includes a Literary Classics eBook shelf containing the full contents of more than 1,000 classic works of literature, and also includes a Shakespeare Center which houses in one convenient location a treasure trove of content on all things Shakespeare.
- Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new window Featuring a dynamic design and a wealth of features, Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand today's crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Issues and Controversies provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on prominent and hotly debated issues. It combines objective analysis with clear explanations of opposing points of view. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.
- In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views to help develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia. Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues, including racism, capital punishment, global warming, and voting rights with reference sources, newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly journals, court cases, government documents, viewpoints, maps, images, audio, video and websites.