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English 336.001

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Writing and Reference
Click below for the superb collection of writer's resources from the GMU Writing Center: Excellent grammar and style advice, along with quizzes to check yourself on what you've learned, from  Capital Community College
More writing tips from the Writing Workshop at Cornell University (where I was a writing tutor in the mid-80s). 

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The fruicte at firste is sower, till time give pleasante taste: 
And verie rare is that attempte, that is not harm'd with haste. 
Perfection comes in time, and forme and fashion gives: 
And ever rashenes, yeeldes repente, and most dispised lives. 
Then, alter ofte, and chaunge, peruse, and reade, and marke: 
The man that softlie settes his steppes, goes safest in the darke. But if that thirst of fame, doe pricke thee forthe too faste: 
Thou shalt (when it is all to late) repente therefore at laste. 
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English 201 
Student Sample Preliminary Essay (Fall 03)
My Sample Preliminary Essay  (Fall 03)
Annotations Project (Fall 00)
Sample fiction analysis
My sample essay for poetry analysis assignment (includes sample brainstorming and outline).

English 335

My sample outline for a Taming of the Shrew essay

Sample essay on Midsummer Night's Dream

English 630

Sample Close Reading Paper

     
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