Dr. Randy Brooks
Faculty Web Publisher
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Web Publication Design Team
The final project in Millikin University's EN301 Web Publishing course is a client publication project. A team of students from EN301 were pleased to serve as the web publication team for A Web Case Book on BELOVED by Toni Morrison.
See more details About the Web Publication Design Team
Rachael Frye Cummings
Communication
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Sarah Scharnett
English Education |
Justin Miller
Graphic Design |
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Dr. Braniger on integrating theory and practice in English studies:
Through a combination
of rhetorical theory and practice, English majors at Millikin University
gain rhetorical strategies and demonstrate production capabilities necessary
for professional success. With Millikin’s institutional emphasis
on the integration of theory and practice, the English department’s
holistic model of education encourages students to embrace reading, writing,
publishing, teaching, and professional technologies in English studies.
Simply put, our model of “doing English” celebrates opportunities:
to read a variety of texts, to create new texts for a variety of audiences
and purposes, to publish original works, and to understand the role of
rhetorical and writing theories for personal, professional, and community
literacy.
“Writing About Literature,” then, provides
an opportunity for students to practice critical approaches for understanding
literature by applying various theoretical and rhetorical frameworks of
literary studies. We begin with the question of why we write about literature
and integrate the acts of reading and writing by positioning the writer
as reader and the reader as writer. We then move to careful readings
and close textual analyses of literary creations, focusing on explication,
analysis and interpretation of primary texts from a variety of authors
and genres. We familiarize ourselves with basic critical, theoretical
and rhetorical approaches to reading literature, with the culminating project
being the collaborative development of a casebook study.
This project positions students
as active, independent agents at the center of text production. By asking students to
become practioners of literary theory and scholars of literature they are
engaged as active participants and contributors to literary studies. I
am proud of the professionalism each individual has shown for the project,
the seriousness with which the students approach the role of scholar
and editor, and the spirit of collaboration they have maintained throughout
the project and over the course of the semester. It was an honor and privilege to work with this talented
group of students, and it is a sheer pleasure to introduce them and their
work. I hope you will join me in celebrating their hard work, dedication
and brilliant insights.
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