“Prizes, Ten Best Lists and Cultural Value"
Honors 150: Honors Composition I
Autumn 2009
California University of Pennsylvania
| Honors 150/H2 10670 |
Honors 150/H3 10671 |
| TTh 8.00 – 9.15 AM |
TTh 12.30 – 1.45 |
| Building A 144 |
Building A 144 |
M. G. Aune
Office Hours TTH 7.00-8.00, W 2.00 – 6.00
724.938.4341
223 Azorsky Hall
aune(at)calu.edu
Links, Documents, and Tips
Links
The Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/
The Man Booker Prize
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
The Pulitzer Prize
http://www.pulitzer.org/
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award
http://www.oscar.com/
The Polar Prize
http://www.polarmusicprize.org/
The Golden Raspberry Award
http://www.razzies.com/
The
Praemium Imperiale
http://www.praemiumimperiale.org/eg/jaahome/home.html
Nobel Presentation Speeches
Below are links to the Nobel
Presentation speeches for the past four years. They may be helpful to you
in thinking and writing about Le Clezio, Pamuk, Lessing, Pinter, and
Coetzee.
J.M.G Le Clezio
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/presentation-speech.html
Doris Lessing
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/presentation-speech.html
Orhan Pamuk
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/presentation-speech.html
Harold Pinter
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/presentation-speech.html
J. M. Coetzee
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/presentation-speech.html
The Literature Resource Center
http://www.library.cup.edu/
The Literature Resource Center is an on-line reference available
through Cal's library. The link above takes you to the Library's
homepage. Click on the link More Try These First.
Scroll down until you see the link for Literature
Resource Center. You may search it by author or by title.
It has articles on most major authors, living and dead. If you access
the LRC from off campus, you will need to sign in with your user ID and
password.
Tips
Standard Academic Usage
1. Titles of books, films, magazines and newspapers are in italics:
Beloved, New York Times, The
Godfather. See
PSM 85-86, 71-72.
2. Write out all numbers that are two words or fewer: one hundred, 352. See
PSM 84.
3. Put all foreign words in italics,
gaijin. See PSM 86.
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. See PSM
16-18.
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 periods and commas inside quotation marks.
E.g. Shakespeare wrote, “To be or not to be.”
Not, Shakespeare wrote, “To be or not to be”.
See PSM 72.
Tips for Passing This (and any other) Class
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.
6. Be familiar with Blackboard and all its features.
7. Visit the office hours of your instructor at least once per term.
8. Have a system for saving copies of all the papers you write, either on
your own computer or on a flash drive.
9. Use a calendar to keep track of all your deadlines and assignments.
Nobel Prize in Literature Bibliography
English, James. The Economics of Prestige:
Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard UP, 2005.
Espmark, Kjell. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Study of the Criteria
Behind the Choices. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991.
“The Nobel Prize in Literature.” 2009. 26 August 2009.
Schuck, Henrick, et al. Nobel: The Man and His Prizes. 2nd. Ed.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1962).
Sohlman, Ragnar. Nobel: The Story Behind the Nobel Prizes. Trans.
Elspeth Harley Schubert. London: Bodley Head, 1983.
Worek, Michael. Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners. Buffalo, NY:
Firefly Books, 2008.
Nobel Prize in Literature: Alfred Nobel's Will
Documents
Group Forms
Group Member Evaluation Form
Peer Rating Form
These are the forms that you
must complete for your group project. Be sure to complete the forms
entirely. Do not forget to rate yourself.
This site was created for the use of students enrolled at California University of Pennsylvania by M.G. Aune. Last updated: 7 September 2009.