
Judy Cormier
Professor of English
e-mail: judy.cormier@imperial.edu
Welcome!
English 08 Handout package (12 pages)
English 102 Guide questions (revised 5-18) (21 pages)
English 09 handout package (21 pages)
English 110 handout package (29 pages)
English 201 handout package (12 pages)
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Some of these files may take a few minutes to come up.
Miscellaneous
- The Success Equation Powerpoint
- Formatting cursive papers
- Competency vs facility in writing
- Facts vs opinions
- Giving oral presentations
- How we learn and keys to academic success
- Moby Dick film critical thinking questions
- Writing business letters
- Writing summaries for reading essays & basic MLA
- "Cask of Amontillado" background notes
- Macbeth post-reading literary analysis lecture.docx
- Macbeth prereading lecture
- Macbeth literary devices charts
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- Using Language
- Working with language
- Student sample figurative speech
- Common figures of speech
- Hallmarks of informality and idioms
- Homonyms and homophones worksheet
- Logical fallacies
- Vocabulary improvement
- Working with satire
- Writing examples and powerful statements
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Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, Sentence Skills
- Parts of speech
- Clauses, sentence types and punctuation
- Punctuation errors exercise
- Grammar errors and exercises
- Sentence combining and variety
- Sentence combining samples
- Sentence combining assignment instructions
- Forming topic sentences and instructions for exercise
- Spelling review
- Troublesome words review list
- "Sassy Sauce" Instructions
- "Procrastination" Instructions
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Writing Paragraphs
- Cause and effect paragraph student sample
- Contrast paragraph student sample (short)
- Definition vs Description Powerpoint
- Definition paragraph student sample
- Superficial vs full development
- Eliminating redundancy in paragraphs
- Evaluating paragraph quality
- Body paragraphs editing checklist
- Using transitions
- How to state examples
- Process analysis evaluation and samples
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Writing Essays
- What is editing and why should we bother?
- Basic essay editing check list
- The writing process
- Working with outlines
- Essay conclusions and introduction samples
- Essay introductions (Powerpoint)
- Essay conclusions (powerpoint)
- Thesis statements
- Definition vs Description Powerpoint
- Argument essay (student sample) : "Television: A Misunderstood Friend"
- English 08-09 short contrast student essay sample
- Taking essay tests (English 08 & 09)
- Taking essay tests (English 110)
- Essay test terminology
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Research
- What is a research paper and how is it different from an essay?
- MLA vs APA Documentation
- MLA practice for works cited pages
- MLA 08 citations dissection and sample
- Easy Steps to Writing a Research Paper
- Academic article sample
- Finding sources
- Working with signal phrases
- Embedding quotations in research
- Working with summaries and paraphrases in research
- Working bibliographies compared to works cited pages
- Editing checklist and works cited pages for research
- How NOT to do a works cited page
- English 09 and 110 research essay editing
- Research card blank forms
- Research notes for English 09
- Research notes for English 110 (key)
- Research notes for English 09 (key)
- 110 Research paper sample 2017
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Topics and Assignments for Composition Classes
Some of these files may take several minutes to come up.
Responding to articles and readings
Only do the topics I assign in class.
- Instructions for reading guide questions (English 110)
Instructions for critical analysis paper (English 110)
Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy lecture and study notes (English 09)
Reading guide questions assignment #1: Video games (English 09)
Reading guide questions assignment #1: No-win (English 09)
Reading guide questions assignment #1: Guns (English 09)
Reading guide questions assignment #1: System-Beaters (English 09)
Reading guide questions assignment #1 : Supersize (English 09)
- Affirmative Action (research instructions)
- Affirmative Action articles
- Alternate Fuels (research instructions)
- Autumn (student essay sample:definition)
- Barbie
- Caveat emptor for advertising
- Charter Schools (research instructions)
- Christmas
- Diptera (student essay sample:satire)
- Electric Vehicles (research instructions)
- Hyperliving (definition sample)
- Laptops reading
- Modest Proposal, A (Jonathan Swift: satire)
- Nachos (satire)
- Nuclear energy (research instructions)
- P.E.
- Shield laws (research instructions)
- Shield laws powerpoint
- Stress essay instructions
- Success essay instructions
- System beaters (student essay sample: argument)
- Voter pamphlet
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Literature
English 102
- English 102 Intro to Literature guide questions (revised 4-17)
- Elements of fiction: Working with prose
- Archetypes and literary devices
- Critical theory, literary analysis and MLA formatting for lit. classes
- Sample Guide Questions
- Pastoral idylls
- Eng 102 The Renaissance lecture
- Critical analysis paper instructions (English 102)
- Eng 102 essay form A (bond)
- Eng 102 essay form B (women)
- Eng 102 essay form C (religion)
- Colonialism and Puritanism lecture
- American Enlightenment and Revolutionary Period lecture
- American Renaissance and Romanticism lecture
English 220 Literary Era Lectures
Guide Questions (These authors will probably be covered in this order.)
- Native American tales, William Bradford, John Winthrop
- Anne Bradstreet
- William Byrd, Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather
- Jonathan Edwards
- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin
- James Madison, Olaudah Equiano, Philip Freneau
- Phyllis Wheatley
- St. Jean de Crevecoeur
- Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Henry David Thoreau
- Edgar Allan Poe (poetry)
- Edgar Allan Poe "Cask of Amontillado" "Ligeia"
- "Cask of Amontillado" background notes
- Edgar Allan Poe "The Purloined Letter"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown" "The Birthmark"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
- Herman Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener"
- Herman Melville Moby Dick (film)
- Frederick Douglass
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickenson
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English 221 Literary Era Lectures
- Realism and Naturalism lecture
- Modernism lecture
- Post-modernism lecture
- Post-modernist existentialism lecture
Guide Questions (These authors may not be covered in this order. )
- Mark Twain
- Bret Harte, Joel Chandler Harris, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman
- Kate Chopin
- Henry James
- Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce
- Jack London, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hamlin Garland
- Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton
- Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
- Robert Frost
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Willa Cather, Carl Sandburg
- T.S. Eliot , Theodore Dreiser
- E.E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallace Stevens
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams
- Eugene O’Neill
- Upton Sinclair The Jungle
- Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay
- Woody Gutherie, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck
- Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea film
- Tennessee Williams
- Arthur Miller
- Martin Luther King Jr., Flannery O’Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan
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Spring 2021
ENGL102Introduction to Literature
Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
20251 | ALLS | ENGL | ONLINE | ONLINE | ONLINE | Enrolled: 30 Available: 0 |
ENGL102Introduction to Literature
Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
20252 | ALLS | ENGL | ONLINE | ONLINE | ONLINE | Enrolled: 30 Available: 0 |
ENGL201Advanced Composition
Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
20285 | ALLS | ENGL | ONLINE | ONLINE | ONLINE | Enrolled: 30 Available: 0 |
ENGL201Advanced Composition
Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
20287 | ALLS | ENGL | ONLINE | ONLINE | ONLINE | Enrolled: 30 Available: 0 |
ENGL201Advanced Composition
Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
20970 | ALLS | ENGL | ONLINE | ONLINE | ONLINE | Enrolled: 30 Available: 0 |
Fall 2020
ENGL102Introduction to Literature
Code # | Division | Department | Meeting Days | Time | Location | Status |
10253 | ALLS | ENGL | Start Time: 0: AM End Time: 0: AM | Building: ONLINE Room: | Enrolled: 19 |
ENGL102Introduction to Literature
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10254 | ALLS | ENGL | Start Time: 0: AM End Time: 0: AM | Building: ONLINE Room: | Enrolled: 16 |
ENGL201Advanced Composition
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10286 | ALLS | ENGL | Start Time: 0: AM End Time: 0: AM | Building: ONLINE Room: | Enrolled: 18 |
ENGL201Advanced Composition
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11324 | ALLS | ENGL | Start Time: 0: AM End Time: 0: AM | Building: ONLINE Room: | Enrolled: 17 |
ENGL201Advanced Composition
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11542 | ALLS | ENGL | Start Time: 0: AM End Time: 0: AM | Building: ONLINE Room: | Enrolled: 15 |