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31 July 2020

SNHU Online: Formatting a Discussion Post

Ever notice that posts written outside of Brightspace look terrible? The font is usually tiny, paragraphs sometimes aren't spaced correctly, and citations look terrible. I was tired of my posts looking bad, so I decided to fix the problem.

24 July 2020

SNHU Online: Random Bits II – Electric Boogaloo

I looked up common questions people are asking according to Google, and in an effort to separate facts from opinions, I'll . . . separate facts from opinions. Turns out, it's not that hard. More people should try it.

17 July 2020

ENG-329: Fiction Writing Workshop at SNHU

Finally. I'd been looking forward to this class for over a year and it did not disappoint. I enrolled at Southern New Hampshire University to become a better writer. To my mind, everything so far either built up to this or was merely a delay. ENG-226 and ENG-340 had some great writing opportunities, but ENG-329 was the first class to focus exclusively on writing and peer workshops.

10 July 2020

LIT-319: Shakespeare at SNHU

It's about what you'd expect from a 300-level course simply titled "Shakespeare." There's a lot of reading, a lot of writing, and for a lot of us, a lot of frustration. I think most of what I didn't like comes down to the pacing of the course and the scope of the project.

7 July 2020

SNHU Online: Rearranging a Schedule

3 July 2020

LIT-229: World Mythology at SNHU

Like a history class, I thought that World Mythology might be a great source of inspiration for my own stories. Where HIS-200 failed to be engaging, I did find World Mythology to be interesting, a bit challenging, and even fun.

26 June 2020

ENG-340: Context of Writing at SNHU

English 340 was a roller coaster of a class for me—and not like the little kiddie coasters. This could be a premium ride at Six Flags. Super high highs, super low lows, corkscrews, and at one point I was pretty sure I was upside-down.

23 June 2020

A Super Serious Literary Analysis of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

I almost included this as a download in last week's recap of LIT-200, but I didn't want to force people to open it in Word when they can just read it here. What you're about to read was posted as a discussion in week eight. My grade was secure by then and I decided to have some fun.

19 June 2020

LIT-200: Critical Approaches to Literature at SNHU

The best classes don't fill a student's head with contextless information, and they certainly don't tell students what to think. The best classes teach students how to think.

Daniel M. Clark

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