English 086 - Paul Martin


Course Discussions

This page is where we can have discussions that depart or carry on from where we left off in class. I'm the only one who can start a discussion, so e-mail me if you'd like to request that we discuss a new topic.

10/14/04: What do you think of blogging so far?

11/04/04: Continuing our post-election conversation...

12/05/04: Questions about the final?

12/09/04: Answers to a few questions about the final....

12/09/04: Barthes, Guillory and Bloom (in progress)

12/31/04: Fighting spam

01/26/05: Comments on the readings from Richter so far

02/18/05: DIscussion of essay assignment

02/19/05: Challenging books in the classroom

02/19/05: Classics and "Chick Lit"

02/21/05: Comments on "Chick Lit" posting

04/25/05: One final topic for discussion: "reading at risk"

05/24/05: Why and how do we read?