Sam Miller

English Professor, Urban Campus

Office: UC01-241 Phone: (515) 697-7718 Email: sdmiller@dmacc.edu

Office hours: MW 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM, TR 9:45-11:00 AM, Wednesday 6:00-6:50 PM or by appointment

Academic Background

© MA English (Applied Linguistics/Literature), Iowa State University 2001

¨BA English Literature, University of Iowa 1991

§ AA Liberal Arts, Des Moines Area Community College 1989

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. –Albert Einstein

Spring 2012 Syllabi & Assignments

ESL 160, Multicultural Literature	LIT 101, Introduction to Literature	LIT 185 Contemporary Literature
UAM, CRN 24093 TR 8:05 – 9:30 AM Building 2, Room 206	UBE, CRN 20747 W 7:00– 10:00 PM Building 1, Room 114	UAA, CRN 21033 TR 12:50– 2:15 PM Building 1, Room 236
Syllabus	Syllabus	Syllabus
Journal responses	Journal responses	Journal responses
Literary analysis paper	Fiction paper	Midterm paper
Analysis revision paper	Poetry paper	Final paper
	Drama paper	Postmodern timeline

ENG 105, Composition I	ENG 106, Composition II
UAM, CRN 26083 MWF 9:05– 10:00 AM Building 2, Room 101	UAE, CRN 24112 MWF 8:00 – 8:55 AM Building 2, Room 101
Syllabus	Syllabus
Journal responses	Journal responses
Narrative	Summary
Revision	Rhetorical analysis
Synthesis	Synthesis
Research	Research

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. –Mark Twain

Useful If Not Essential Links

The Rules of Writing	Keyboard commands for MS Word
Saving documents to your (P:) file	Strunk’s The Elements of Style
Paper formatting guidelines	Steps to writing a research paper
Checklist for writing about literature	Online typing program
Checklist for writing journal responses	National Public Radio
DMACC Library	DMACC Home page

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. –e e cummings

Course Competencies

ENG 105: Composition I

ENG 106: Composition II

ESL 160: Multicultural Literature

LIT 101: Introduction to Literature

LIT 185: Contemporary Literature

LIT 188: Detective Fiction