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scanned material, other resources for writers ENGL489 Advanced Portfolio Workshop

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LEE TORDA
310 Tillinghast Hall
Bridgewater State University
508.531.2436
ltorda@bridgew.edu
www.leetorda.com
Spring 2016 Office Hours:
W 2:00-3:00
R 1:00-2:00
Fridays 11:00 to 12:00 (noon)
and by appointment
20 February 2015
Material from Reading Like a Writer: 
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27 February 2015
Material from The New Yorker: "Holy Writ: Learning to Love the House Style." 
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Here is some excellent reading on reading like a writer. From a 1962 article reprinted in The New Yorker about the short story writer and novelist Alice Munro: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/remember-roger-mortimer

6 March 2015
Reviews and other articles about The Grand Budapest Hotel 
 Article from The Atlantic on Budapest as commentary on the Holocaust: http://m.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/how-grand-budapest-hotel-pays-tribute-to-the-holocaust/385264/?utm_source=SFFB

Review from The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/lost-time
And http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-grand-budapest-hotel-wes-andersons-artistic-manifesto
And just one last thing: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/stefan-zweig-wes-anderson-and-a-longing-for-the-past

From The New York Times
Just a blurb about GBH winning the Writer's Guild Award: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/movies/writers-guild-chooses-top-screenplays-of-2014.html?_r=0
About GBH, but about "Wes Anderson's Universe" more generally: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/garden/inhabiting-wes-andersons-universe.html
You don't have to read anything here. You can just watch A.O. Scott review GBH: http://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000002756108/movie-review-the-grand-budapest-hotel.html
And his print review (A.O. Scott is a great writer and movie critic--worth reading and learning from): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/movies/wes-andersons-grand-budapest-hotel-is-a-complex-caper.html
Really excellent observations about the movie in relation to his other movies: click here. 

Reviews for The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
From the The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/theater/reviews/the-curious-case-of-the-watson-intelligence.html?_r=0

20 March 2015
For today's class, we are going to be exploring how meaning gets made in sentences using grammar and punctuation. It's a way to read poetry, and it's a way to start to think about how to improve your own sentences, on a micro-level. Here is a link to how to diagram sentences. 
How To Diagram a Sentence in Nine Steps. 
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