BOOK
Sammons, Martha C.  "A Better Country": The Worlds of Religious Fantasy and Science Fiction.  New York:
        Greenwood Press, 1988.

BOOK with an AUTHOR and an EDITOR
Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ed. Karen V. Kukil.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday,
       2000.

ARTICLE OR CHAPTER FROM A BOOK by the same author
Charters, Ann.  "Appendix 2: A Brief History of the Short Story."  The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to
        Short Fiction.  Compact 6th ed.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.  995-1002.

ARTICLE OR CHAPTER FROM A BOOK by a different author
O'Connor, Flannery.  "Writing Short Stories."  [First published 1961.]  Rpt. The Story and Its Writer: An
        Introduction to Short Fiction.  Ed. Ann Charters.  Compact 6th ed.  Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2003.
        910-915.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wood, Michael. "Broken Dates: Fiction and the Century." Kenyon Review 22.3 (2000): 50-64.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Miller, John J. “The Truth Beyond Memory. (J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings).”  National Review
      31 December 2001: 43.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE with TWO AUTHORS from EBSCO Academic Search Premier database:

Byfield, Ted, and Virginia Byfield.  "What Tolkien's Enduring Fables Can Teach Those Aiming to Captivate
       Today's Youth."  Report / Newsmagazine (National ed.) 2 Sept. 2002: 49 (1pp). Academic Search
       Premier [Article No. 7273966]. EBSCO. Central Oregon Community Coll. Lib., Bend, OR. 16 Oct. 2003.

WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE ARTICLE from Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe database:
Koretz, Gene. "Economic Trends: Uh-Oh, Warm Water." Business Week 21 July 1997: 22.  
        Academic Universe: Medical. Lexis-Nexis. Central Oregon Community Coll. Lib., Bend, OR.
       16 Nov. 2003.

ARTICLE FROM REFERENCE WORK from GALE LITERATURE CENTER database -
NOTE:  UNSIGNED (i.e. NO AUTHOR GIVEN) - START WITH ARTICLE TITLE:
"J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien, 1892-1973."  [New Entry: 4 Jan. 2002.]   Contemporary Authors Online.
        The Gale Group, 2000.  Gale Literature Resource Center.  Central Oregon Community Coll. Lib., Bend,
        OR. 16 Nov. 2003.

NOTE: When you access a work through a personal subscription service such as America Online, give the information about the source, followed by the name of the service, the date of access, and the keyword used to retrieve the source.

ENG 104 Objectives and Learning Outcomes; or what will you learn in ENG 104? 

ENG 104 instruction, activities, and assignments are designed to help students develop skills essential to successful college-level Humanities study of literature:
(a) close reading of literary texts and annotating (taking notes on) significant passages in those texts;
(b) describing and analyzing personal responses to literary texts;
(c) applying literary terms and concepts, approaches and methods of analysis, and relevant background information introduced in class and assignments;
(d) identifying and investigating informational resources valuable to the study of narrative fiction;
(e) formulating and explaining interpretations and evaluations of literary works--drawing upon cogent logical reasoning and relevant specific examples from the works, as well as other sources;
(f) actively participating in class discussions and small-group seminars--prepared to explain and illustrate one's own interpretations and questions, as well as to understand and respond to others'  interpretations;
(g) seriously considering, and evaluating the merits and limitations of, others' opinions and evidence--especially those different from one's own; and being willing to re-think one's own interpretations and evaluations of literary works as warranted;
(h) adapting general academic writing skills to the special forms and requirements of writing successful literary criticism (i.e. literary analysis, interpretation, evaluation)

ENG 104 Learning Outcomes:  Successful completion of ENG 104 means students will be able to:

1.  Define and illustrate principal literary elements of narrative fiction (e.g. plot, character, theme, point of view, setting, symbol, style), as well as significant variations within this genre (e.g. static vs. dynamic character, short story vs. novel), using well-selected examples from representative works.

2.  Analyze relationships among selected elements of literary form and thematic content (e.g. setting and characterization, or symbol and theme) within a work of narrative fiction, to explain how these literary elements interact to shape the meaning and impact of individual works of narrative fiction.

3.  Identify key characteristics of literary historical periods and movements (e.g. 19th-century literary Realism) influential in the development of narrative fiction; and illustrate these characteristics using representative literary works.

4.  Apply background information by and about authors--e.g. their lives, cultural identities, socio-economic circumstances, reputations, literary influences, creative practices--to analysis and interpretation of their works of narrative fiction.

5.  Analyze others' literary criticism (e.g. commentaries of professional literary critics, interpretations of other ENG 104 students), and apply relevant critical opinions to one's own analysis and interpretation of narrative fiction.

6.  Use comparison/contrast analysis to demonstrate significant differences and similarities between selected works of narrative fiction (e.g., in fiction by the same or different authors; in fiction from different literary-historical periods; in different types of narrative fiction, such as short story, novel and/or film adaptation).

7.  Evaluate selected works of narrative fiction, based on defensible evaluation criteria appropriate to literary genre and context, and persuasive with a diverse English 104 audience.

8.  Demonstrate effective writing skills when communicating and supporting literary analysis, interpretation, and evaluation, in graded writing assignments.

9.  Select and interpret persuasive specific examples from primary works of narrative fiction, as well as from relevant secondary sources, in order to illustrate and support one's points.

10.  Avoid plagiarism by using an acceptable academic style (e.g. MLA) to cite direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and summaries taken from primary and secondary sources.