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Copyright (C) 2008-2009 David B. Axelrod |
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HELPFUL LINKS |
REQUIRED READINGS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PURCHASE MY BOOK, HOW TO APOLOGIZE, but I think you will learn a lot from it (and any of the other titles available at www.writersunlimited.org/LIPS.htm and in bookstores). While your task is to write effective prose, the poet and the essayist share many skills and challenges. I have a link discussing principles of good writing and on it I make reference to what poetry can teach a prose writer. THERE IS ONLY ONE REQUIRED BOOK FOR THIS COURSE: Little Brown Compact Handbook of Style by Aaron. I have posted a selection of my essays which exemplify the kinds of essays you may write. CLICK HERE FOR: A LIST OF DR. AXELROD'S SAMPLE ESSAYS If I find a link to an essay or story that could help, I include it on an appropriate page. I also think you should make this your semester to read widely. For that I recommend The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine (and the many other essays that appear as features in the Times each week), and any author or collection of essays that you find a useful model. Good readers make good writers. Requiring you to purchase an expensive anthology of essays seems unnecessary for our on-line class. We aren't together in a classroom to discuss them. They become "homework" and you would do as well or better just looking through sources you can readily find on your own. My books, as noted above, are available at www.writersunlimited.org/LIPS.htm. My books are also at the Suffolk College Bookstore, Borders and Best Buy Books, and of course, at Amazon (but it takes longer to get them at Amazon!). |