ENGL 97 Introduction to Honors
The aim of this seminar is not only to foster a sense of community and common purpose among the members of the English honors program to offer students further instruction in the protocols and techniques of serious scholarly writing. To that end, we will devote most of our meetings to the nuts and bolts of research and writing, aided and abetted by Eric Hayot’s Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities. By the end of the term, students in this seminar should be prepared to write a well-developed proposal for their honors thesis. More, they should be on their way to mastering the skills necessary to help them research, write, and complete the thesis itself.