Sandra L. Giles
English and Creative Writing,
Dept. of Literature and Language, School of Liberal Arts
Office: Conger 310, 391-4961
Office Hours for Fall 2009 (August 17-December 7): MF 11-1. W 11-2. TR 10-11, 12:15-1. Other times by appointment.
FYW Committee's Workshop on 1102
Assignment sequence for my 1102
Syllabi/Course Policies for the Current Semester
Course Descriptions
* NOTE: descriptions here are for your information only and are subject to modification at the instructor’s discretion. The binding document for any class is the hard-copy syllabus handed out on the first class meeting.
Schedules
1101 Schedule for Essay 4 (Argumentative)
Nature Writing Projected Schedule for the Semester
Essay Assignment Sheets/Topics
1102 Assignment/Topics for Essay 3
1102 Assignment/Topics for Essay 2
1101 Assignment/Topics for Essay 4 (Argumentative)
1101 Assignment/Topics for Essay 3
0099 Assignment/Topics for Essay 3
Journal Lists
ENGL 0099 Fall 2009 Journal List
Handouts for Creative Writing Classes
Handouts for Literature Classes
World Lit II Researched Essay Assignment/Topics
Peer Workshop Instructions for Literature Classes
Researched Essay Hints for Literature Classes
Handouts For Composition Classes
Approaches to Literary Analysis
Strategies for Argumentative Writing
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
Permission Form for Recommendation Letters
TurnItIn.Com Student Instructions
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 The Southeast Review, 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).