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- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Skyline_College/LIT_232%3A_Survey_of_British_Literature_II_(Skyline)/00%3A_Front_Matter
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Skyline_College/LIT_232%3A_Survey_of_British_Literature_II_(Skyline)/02%3A_The_Victorian_Age/2.04%3A_Alfred_Lord_Tennyson_(1809-1892)Although born in the Victorian era, Alfred, Lord Tennyson felt much affinity for the Romantic era. As with the Romantics, his first impulse was to think rather than do, and he relied more on emotional...Although born in the Victorian era, Alfred, Lord Tennyson felt much affinity for the Romantic era. As with the Romantics, his first impulse was to think rather than do, and he relied more on emotional intelligence rather than rational judgment. They may have been fostered by his painful childhood and early adulthood. His famous works include the poem In Memoriam: To AHH, “The Palace of Art” (1832), “The Lady of Shalott”, Maud (1855), and “Ulysses.”
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Skyline_College/LIT_232%3A_Survey_of_British_Literature_II_(Skyline)/03%3A_The_Twentieth_Century_and_Beyond/3.04%3A_Virginia_Woolf_(1882-1941)From her childhood on, Woolf mingled with the many famous authors who were her father’s acquaintances, including Thomas Hardy and Henry James. After her father’s death, Woolf lived in Bloomsbury where...From her childhood on, Woolf mingled with the many famous authors who were her father’s acquaintances, including Thomas Hardy and Henry James. After her father’s death, Woolf lived in Bloomsbury where she joined a highly intellectual group of writers and artists that came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. The resistance to patriarchy also informed her rejection of such expected roles for women as the subservient wife and mother. This belief became the foundation of many of her literary works.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Skyline_College/LIT_232%3A_Survey_of_British_Literature_II_(Skyline)Study of the typical works of major British writers from the 19th Century to the present.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Rhetoric_-_What_Why_and_How/05%3A_The_Writing_Process/5.09%3A_RevisingWhereas the teaching of slaves to read and write, has a tendency to excite dis-satisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this St...Whereas the teaching of slaves to read and write, has a tendency to excite dis-satisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this State: Therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that any free person, who shall hereafter teach, or attempt to teach, any slave within the State to read or write, the use of figures excepted, or shall give …
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Rhetoric_-_What_Why_and_How/16%3A_Non-Native_Speakers/16.02%3A_Advice_specifically_designed_for_non-native_English_speakersDefinition: a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discou...Definition: a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this). The president stated that the international treaty had been broken in the aftermath of the civil war and that the government supported the restoration of the treaty’s tenets.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Rhetoric_-_What_Why_and_How/15%3A_Grammar/15.09%3A_FragmentsIn English, a sentence must contain a subject-verb unit; a fragment is a group of words that pretends to be a sentence but doesn’t actually have a valid subject-verb unit. On the day of the story’s ac...In English, a sentence must contain a subject-verb unit; a fragment is a group of words that pretends to be a sentence but doesn’t actually have a valid subject-verb unit. On the day of the story’s action, the proceedings are supervised by Joe Summers, an old-timer who oversees square dances, the teenager’s club, and the Halloween program. The townsfolk are in a festive mood, approaching the oncoming massacre of a neighbor with no more concern than they give to the milking of a cow.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Rhetoric_-_What_Why_and_How/16%3A_Non-Native_Speakers/16.01%3A_Non-Native_English_Speakers_chapter_overviewTurning spoken English into written: There are three important differences between spoken English and written English: (1) Length: written English often takes more words to convey the same idea that c...Turning spoken English into written: There are three important differences between spoken English and written English: (1) Length: written English often takes more words to convey the same idea that can be conveyed in spoken English. (2) In the written version of a spoken conversation, the verbs shift from present to past, and from past to past perfect.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Rhetoric_-_What_Why_and_How/04%3A_Paper_Topics
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Rhetoric_-_What_Why_and_How/08%3A_Thesis_Statements/8.01%3A_Thesis_Statements_-_simple_and_complexFor example, in the sentence “Backpacking in the mountains last year was an exciting experience,” the topic is “backpacking” and the opinion is that this trip was “exciting.” Another person on the sam...For example, in the sentence “Backpacking in the mountains last year was an exciting experience,” the topic is “backpacking” and the opinion is that this trip was “exciting.” Another person on the same trip might have had a different attitude and may have found the trip boring or exhausting. “Exciting” reveals the writer’s attitude and also indicates what the essay with this thesis statement will be focused on: demonstrating why it was “exciting.” This thesis statement limits the writer’s focus…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Rhetoric_-_What_Why_and_How/15%3A_Grammar/15.04%3A_ArticlesIf you were to say, “Marcus goes swimming in the lake on Fridays,” the reader understands that it is a specific lake, and that he goes to the same place each week. Plural nouns do not require an indef...If you were to say, “Marcus goes swimming in the lake on Fridays,” the reader understands that it is a specific lake, and that he goes to the same place each week. Plural nouns do not require an indefinite article: “I love apples,” instead of “I love an apples.” (You must use the definite article if you have already introduced the idea or are referring to a specific member of a group: “I love the apples grown across the street.”)
