English 430: The Rise of the Novel
Professor David Porter
Winter Term, 1999

Course Syllabus

• Course Description
• Course Texts
• Recommended Secondary Readings
• Course Requirements and Grading
• Class Schedule
• Presentation Guidelines
• First Assignment: Introduction to Cow

Additional Course Resources

• Guidelines for evaluating web sites
  • What to Look for in a Web Site: a brief guide to the evaluation of web sites as scholarly resources
  • Evaluating Internet-Based Information: a collection of short essays outlining criteria for judging online information sources
• Instructions for submitting web site evaluations: enter the course conference, select "Web Site Evaluations, start a new conversation, and enter the title and address of your site and a brief descriptive evaluation of its contents.
• Online course conference (COW)
• Eighteenth-Century England web site - this is where final web-based projects will be posted after the end of the course. Guidelines for project design can also be found here.
• Electronic editions of course texts