Because class must continue even through anticipated instructor absences, and because students benefit from additional practice in explication, an explication exercise will be offered to students in my Fall 2014 section of ENGL 2413 while I am away at the South Central Modern Language Association conference. Students will be given a short poem to read prior to the event, Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book." Class on 20 October 2014 will be devoted to reading and discussion of the work. Class on 22 October 2014 will be given entirely to writing a short explicatory essay of the poem, following a prompt and directions issued that day.
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