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Apr 6 2006 01:55pm
I was wondering if there is a website that provides a free program in which you are assigned a book to read, or perhaps a short story and afterwards write an essay based on a topic related to the story/book you read.

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Apr 6 2006 05:18pm
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I was wondering if there is a website that provides a free program in which you are assigned a book to read, or perhaps a short story and afterwards write an essay based on a topic related to the story/book you read.

Thanks in advance


If I'm reading this right, you are wanting to be assigned a book to read and then writing a essay about it?

If that's what your looking for, why not just ask a teacher?
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Apr 6 2006 06:06pm
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I was wondering if there is a website that provides a free program in which you are assigned a book to read, or perhaps a short story and afterwards write an essay based on a topic related to the story/book you read.

Thanks in advance


If I'm reading this right, you are wanting to be assigned a book to read and then writing a essay about it?

If that's what your looking for, why not just ask a teacher?


I have no access to a teacher.
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Apr 6 2006 10:33pm
Ask me. I'll give you a reading list (of books, poetry, short stories) and I'll set set essay titles for you to complete (based on those that I've done and on good essay descriptions on www.sparknotes.com).
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Apr 7 2006 06:11am
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Quote (39ES7 @ Thu, Apr 6 2006, 02:55pm)
I was wondering if there is a website that provides a free program in which you are assigned a book to read, or perhaps a short story and afterwards write an essay based on a topic related to the story/book you read.

Thanks in advance


If I'm reading this right, you are wanting to be assigned a book to read and then writing a essay about it?

If that's what your looking for, why not just ask a teacher?


I have no access to a teacher.


Oh, well I'll see if I can find anything. I'll keep you informed if I do.
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Apr 7 2006 09:19am
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Ask me. I'll give you a reading list (of books, poetry, short stories) and I'll set set essay titles for you to complete (based on those that I've done and on good essay descriptions on www.sparknotes.com).


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Apr 8 2006 03:56am
Ok, The first obvious question for me to ask you is whether you have ever done a critical analysis of any text? If so what type of text was it? Was it prose or poetry? If it was prose was a novel length text or was it a short story? Again, if it was prose, was it fiction, non-fiction or travel-writing?

I ask these questions in order to gauge your current aptitudes and then I'll proceed to set the first text to critically analyse and we'll see where we go from there smile.gif.
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Apr 8 2006 06:47pm
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Ok, The first obvious question for me to ask you is whether you have ever done a critical analysis of any text? If so what type of text was it? Was it prose or poetry? If it was prose was a novel length text or was it a short story? Again, if it was prose, was it fiction, non-fiction or travel-writing?

I ask these questions in order to gauge your current aptitudes and then I'll proceed to set the first text to critically analyse and we'll see where we go from there smile.gif.


prose, both text novel and short story, fiction and non-ficition.
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Apr 8 2006 11:46pm
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Quote (TheRaven @ Sat, Apr 8 2006, 04:56am)
Ok, The first obvious question for me to ask you is whether you have ever done a critical analysis of any text? If so what type of text was it? Was it prose or poetry? If it was prose was a novel length text or was it a short story? Again, if it was prose, was it fiction, non-fiction or travel-writing?

I ask these questions in order to gauge your current aptitudes and then I'll proceed to set the first text to critically analyse and we'll see where we go from there smile.gif.


prose, both text novel and short story, fiction and non-ficition.

Great. Can you get your hands on the following book?
"A New Life" - By Bernard Malamud

It is a medium length book and it is makes for a very nice analytical piece of writing. If you can get it, read the first 5 chapters (fairly short) and:
1) see whether you wish to continue (this is all your choice)
2) analyse what you have read in the first chapter, concentrating not so much on the diction but on the atmosphere, the context, and the imagery.
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Apr 8 2006 11:54pm
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Quote (TheRaven @ Sat, Apr 8 2006, 04:56am)
Ok, The first obvious question for me to ask you is whether you have ever done a critical analysis of any text? If so what type of text was it? Was it prose or poetry? If it was prose was a novel length text or was it a short story? Again, if it was prose, was it fiction, non-fiction or travel-writing?

I ask these questions in order to gauge your current aptitudes and then I'll proceed to set the first text to critically analyse and we'll see where we go from there smile.gif.


prose, both text novel and short story, fiction and non-ficition.

Great. Can you get your hands on the following book?
"A New Life" - By Bernard Malamud

It is a medium length book and it is makes for a very nice analytical piece of writing. If you can get it, read the first 5 chapters (fairly short) and:
1) see whether you wish to continue (this is all your choice)
2) analyse what you have read in the first chapter, concentrating not so much on the diction but on the atmosphere, the context, and the imagery.


I'l get to it now.

I enjoy buying my books off ebay therefore it may take a few for it to arrive, you can perhaps assign me some short stories available through the internet for me to work on for the time being. You may also list future books you want me to read so I can order them ahead of time

This post was edited by 39ES7 on Apr 9 2006 12:03am
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