Sandra L. Giles
English and Creative Writing,
Dept. of Literature and Language, School of Liberal Arts
Office: Conger 310, 391-4961
Office hours for Spring 2012 (Jan 9-Apr 27) MWF 9:30-10, 11-1. TR 12:15-1, 3-3:30. Other times available by appointment. Call or email.
Syllabi/Course Policies for the Current Semester
ENGL 3050 Writing the Rural Life
Course Descriptions
Writing the Rural Life (ENGL 3050)
Schedules
World Lit II Schedule for 18th Century
1102 H Schedule for Summary Unit
Essay Assignment Sheets/Topics
World Lit II Researched Essay--see "Handouts for Literature Classes" below
1101 Assignment/Topics for Essay 1
Journal Lists
Handouts for Creative Writing Classes
Responding to (Workshopping) Fiction
Revising at the Level of Story
Revising at the Level of Scene
Revising at the Level of Language
Handouts for Literature Classes
World Lit II Research Paper Assignment
Peer Workshop Instructions for Literature Classes
Researched Essay Hints for Literature Classes
Handouts For Composition Classes
Grading Descriptions for Composition Classes
Make-Up Peer Workshop Instructions
Revision Hints for Researched Essays
Revising an Essay at the Levels of Meaning, Structure, Strategy
Getting More and Better Content into an Essay
Letter to the Reader Assignment
FSU's Avoiding Plagiarism Handout/Exercise
Other Handouts
TurnItIn.Com instructions for students
Permission Form for Recommendation Letters
Professional Information
Ph.D., Creative Writing and Composition/Rhetoric, Florida State University, 2008
M.A., English, Valdosta State University, 1991
B.A., English, Valdosta State University, 1989
A.A., English, Abraham Baldwin College, 1987
Sandra has been teaching college writing and literature classes since 1991 and has been at ABAC since 1997. She writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and scholarship, and has had work published in Wilderness House Literary Review, The Southeast Review, Writing Spaces, The AWP Pedagogy Papers, On Writing: A Process Reader, Feeling Our Way: a Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook, and Pegasus. She has presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), as well as other writing and teaching conferences. She also serves as a Teacher-Consultant for the Blackwater Writing Project, a unit of the National Writing Project out of Valdosta State University. Click here for my current Vita (resume).