Introductions

Professor: Dr. Silva (she/her)

Students (pronouns; major (grad school aspirations?); what you want from this class; the last text you’ve read; something about yourself)

• Our readings (available at Akemos):
  • Frankenstein (free online)
  • Theory into Practice (due ASAP)
  • Destroyer (you can buy this one in a few weeks)
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• Blackboard: use it to upload assignments
• Our Website: use it to keep track of schedule/assignments, see lecture notes, get readings outside our textbook
  • You will need an account to use this site. Check your email!
• Some basics–> get in the habit of using the OED online

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• Hybrid Requirement
• Group-Led Discussions

• Before you leave today: Reading Habits Survey

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Next Week:

• Hypothesis annotation basics
• Weekly Online Assignment instructions
• TiP Chapter 1, “The Relationship of Reading and Writing”
• Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 
• Wimsatt & Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy”