Tips
for University Success
1. Always have your
homework assignment read, annotated, and be ready to ask and answer questions
about it.
2. When emailing your
instructor, always use a salutation (Dear…), identify yourself by your full
name, and use a closing (Sincerely…).
3. Do not wait until the
last minute to write and print your papers.
4. Attend class
punctually.
5. Get to know at least
three other people in each of your classes.
6. Be familiar with
Blackboard and all its features.
7. Visit the office hours
of each of your instructor at least once per term.
8. Have a system for
saving copies of all the papers you write for every class, either on your own
computer or on a flash drive.
9. Use a calendar to keep
track of all your deadlines and assignments.
Standard Academic Usage
1. Titles of books,
films, magazines and newspapers are in italics:
Beloved, New York Times, The Godfather
2. Write out all numbers
that are two words or fewer: one hundred, 352.
3. Put all foreign words
in italics, gaijin
4. The first time you
refer to a person, use his or her full name; after that use only the last name.
5. Avoid slang and
clichés.
6. Always assume that you
should use third person (he, she, it, one) rather than the first person (I, we)
or second person (you), unless you check with the instructor first.
7. Place punctuation
inside quotation marks. E.g.
Shakespeare wrote, “To be or not to be.”
Not, Shakespeare wrote, “To be or not to be”.
Peer Rating of Group Member Form
Helpful Links
For many, especially European writers, the
Literature Resource Center will be the most helpful and reliable site.
Even if you are not sure your writer or text will be included, you should
check. It will have biographies, bibliographies, and often critical works. It
can be accessed via the Library’s home
page. Click on Try These First, scroll down
until you see Literature Resource Center.
On the same page you might also try the Biography Resource Center.
Academic Search Complete can also be helpful, but its results will be more
specialized.
If you are having trouble locating texts, publication dates, and other
bibliographic information, try the Library of Congress’s on-line catalogue (www.loc.gov).
It should list nearly every book published in English in the past sixty years or
so. Also consider trying the online library catalogues at big research
universities like Harvard, Penn, or Berkeley.
Monkey
A general site containing some images and the Chinese text.
http://www.chinapage.com/monkey/monkey.html
A site with an abridged translation of the text and numerous illustrations.
http://www.china-on-site.com/monkey.php
Çelebi
A biography of Çelebi from an official Turkish source.
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/celebi.html
Bashō
The link has a text of The Narrow Road of the
Interior in a different translation. It also has a somewhat speculative
biography of Basho and some lovely images related to Narrow Road.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/index.html
Salon's Technology Haiku.
These are winners of a contest about ten years ago that asked people to regard
computer error messages like haiku.
http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html
Ghalib and Ghazals
Ghazals are complicated poems, both in their
metrics and their content. The following websites are helpful, if
technical.
"When I say 'ghazal'. . ."
http://web.mst.edu/~gdoty/poems/essays/ghazals.html
The website reproduces an article by Gene Doty from the journal Lynx.
It breaks down the ghazal into seven basic rules and describes how these rules
are and are not followed in English translation.
Basic Points About the Ghazal
http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/ghazals/
By Agha Shahid Ali, another breakdown of the form that is best read against the
one above.
A Desertful of Roses
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/
A website devoted to the ghazals of Ghalib. It has some beautiful images,
biographical information, transcriptions of the poetry, and much else.
Felix Feneon
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78734
Paul Signac’s painting of Feneon.
Georges Méliès
Victorian Cinema
http://www.victorian-cinema.net/melies.htm
A good brief biography of Méliès with a brief bibliography and helpful links.
The Méliès Database
http://www.geocities.com/melies61/
Much good information here including a filmography and links to on-line
material. Not all the links are good, but you can find many of his films on
YouTube.
Voyage to the Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0BmQaIIR4
This link is to a version with the English narration.
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSqMFGgzg-4
This version has the French narration. The quality is not as high as the
one above.
Samuel Beckett
Apmonia
http://themodernword.com/beckett/
Probably the closest thing to an official Beckett website.
Hayao Miyazaki
The Hayao Miyazaki Web
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/
It’s a fan site, but it has detailed and current information about his films and
manga.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
A Tribute to Krzysztof Kieslowski
http://my.dreamwiz.com/jyjung71/
A fan site with a great range of information. It seems quite reliable but may
also be plagiarized.
Decalogue 1 clip
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iP5zGGJv5TU&feature=PlayList&p=022A6B743CDEF3B2&index=2
In this scene Pawel and his aunt discuss his father and God.
Chinua Achebe
A website with essays and other material on Things Fall
Apart.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html