Bill Poston, Lecturer in English
"I'll Be Back"
Welcome to Student Resources for My Classes
Courses that I have taught or am teaching:
English 101: Writing and Inquiry I
English 102: Writing and Inquiry II
English 214: World Literature & Experience: Literature and Society
English 221: Readings in World Literature
English 275: Business Communications
English 373: Writing in the Disciplines
Humanities 230: Generations
Courses: Spring 2012:
English 101: Writing and Inquiry I
English 214: Literature and Society
English 275: Business Communications
The Writing Center at Lander University
"Your Brain on Fiction" by A. Paul in NYT--one time classroom use
The Pearson Guide to the 2008 MLA Style Manual Updates
(This is just to be used by students for class in case their Little, Brown Handbook, 6th editon, did not come with one. About 5 megs in size and in PDF format.)
For all of the new guidelines: for using the MLA format:
The OWL at Purdue: MLA
2009 Formatting and Style Guide
Free short guides (downloadable)
to various styles of documentation, including the MLA, APA, and CBE styles, and
links to other useful research tools
On a low budget? Try the OpenOffice application suite. This suite is comparable to the Microsoft Office suite of programs. OpenOffice has word processing and spread sheet programs that can be compatible with Word and Excel. OpenOffice is free.
Also, check out The Ulitmate Student Resource List (Thanks to Dr. Lee Archie for finding this one).
To Errata: Ozymandias
Factor
The Story of Stuff
This is an interesting, short, and controversial video
created by Annie Leonard in order to make visible the way
we consume and produce "stuff" and the effect this has on our
world. You can watch it for free and download a copy at the site
address in the graphic below or click on the link provided:
T.E.D. Conference: Mike Biddle "We Can Recycle Plastic"
T.E.D. Conference: Jill Bolte Taylor "Stroke of Insight"
T.E.D Conference: "Hans Rosling Shows the Best Stats You've Ever Seen"
NewYorkTimes: "A Radical Female Hero from Dystopia"
To contact me: wposton@lander.edu
