Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

3. “Let me tell you ’bout the birds and the bees / And the flowers and the trees / And the moon up above / And a thing called ‘love.’” Jewel Akens’s use of ‘and’ is an example of: ...

This study compares and contrasts the selection and distribution of literary texts in the English programs of two diverse secondary schools, one in Massachusetts, USA, the other in Ontario, Canada.

Classic English literature should remain central to the teaching of English, a study suggests. A survey of thousands of teachers, pupils, parents, writers and advisers found great support for the ...

The Bazzanella Literary Awards is one of Sacramento State's longest and most popular scholarship since its inception in 1981. Named after the late Dr. Dominic J. Bazzanella, an English professor and ...