Great Shakespeareans is an eighteen volume book set that contains information on how different scholars and authors contributed to all things Shakespeare. Set one contains volumes I-IV; set two contains volumes V-IX; set three contains volumes X-XIII. Each author writes about different aspects of Shakespeare’s works. For example, some of the authors focus on his poetry, or they focus on things like new ways to look at Shakespeare’s work that had not been thought about before. Some of the volumes feature famous authors like T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud. These sets are all available on Tennessee Tech’s library website for free for all Tech students. The library website, however, does not offer volumes XIV-XVIII. Each volume has different editors, and each series has shares the same editors, Adrian Poole and Peter Holland.
All of the volumes contain a variety of information on everything Shakespeare. These could be used among English majors to help get different information about Shakespeare’s works, whether it be the dating of his plays, new ways to look at his works, or even psychoanalysis of his works. This could be very helpful in providing background on Shakespeare’s works for a paper or just for personal knowledge. The editors of the series also include notes on the contributors which gives information on where each of the authors are professors and other works they have written. This could also help an English major find other resources that could go more in depth on a certain topic if they needed more information outside of Great Shakespeareans. This resource would only be helpful for people that are writing, or learning, about Shakespeare’s works, or anyone that is interested in Shakespeare.
Works Cited
Great Shakespeareans Set I. Continuum, 2011.
Great Shakespeareans Set II. Continuum, 2011.
Great Shakespeareans Set III. The Arden Shakespeare, 2012.
Grammarly is an online website that was founded in 2009 by Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, and Dmetro Lider. While the website itself was founded in 2009, the Web Editor was not launched until 2010. Grammarly has over two hundred team members and over twenty million daily users and can be accessed by everyone, for free, on Google, or just about any other search engine. The website offers three different accounts. The first account is their free account which helps improve and strengthen everyday writing. With the Premium account, they offer more advanced grammar checks, an advanced plagiarism detector, and enhanced vocabulary suggestions. The Premium account has a few different prices based on how you pay with their cheapest plan being the annual pay; it is $11.66 per month and is billed as one payment of $139.95. The last account they offer is their Business account which allows a business to buy the account and allow their workers to use Grammarly in order to make their writing more engaging and clear.
With a free account, they offer assistance with a multitude of websites including Gmail, Facebook, and other very popular sites. It will go through what has been typed in order to find mistakes or ways to improve the writing. If it finds a mistake or an improvement, it will underline the word or phrase and all the writer has to do is hover over the underlined portion with the mouse, and it will allow the writer to fix their mistake. In the account settings, they offer a tab to customize each user’s account by offering a personal dictionary, which allows a user to add words that they do not want to be flagged as a misspelling. They also offer to check writing in American, British, Canadian, or Austalian rules.
On a Macbook laptop, when visiting their website, they offer users the option to download Grammarly to Safari. If the user chooses to do so, they offer assistance on anywhere a user writes on the Web. This website would be useful to anyone that has to write. Students in college and high school could use this website to proofread their work before turning in an assignment. Anyone with a career that involves writing could use this website to make sure their writing is correct. This website was not intended for one specific audience but, instead, built for a wide audience in order to help everyone improve their writing.
Young Scholars in Writing, abbreviated YSW, is an academic journal that only publishes undergraduate writers. The essays, written by undergraduates, do not have a specific focus, but instead have a wide variety of topics. Their main subjects focus on rhetoric and composition, writing, literacy, linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. It is an annual journal that began in 2003, published by the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Sciences. The main editor is Doug Downs, but they have large editorial and peer review boards along with the main editor. The peer review board has only undergraduates from Montana State University while the editorial board has members from many different colleges and universities. The journal does not give an editorial board for each volume. Instead, they have one page on their website that lists the editorial board in full.
There are sixty-four articles submitted per year, but only seven of those sixty-four are published which is roughly an eleven percent acceptance rate. The articles are suggested to be ten to twenty-five pages in length with the only requirement that it is authored by an undergraduate student with a preferred MLA style editing. The journal does not include book reviews or short notes, and there is no charge for submission or pages. It is also actively indexed and peer reviewed. The earlier volumes seem to mostly focus on politics and writing and how it goes with different subjects. The very early volumes do not include abstracts of each article like the more recent articles do, but all of the articles give a biography of the authors which basically describes their position in college- where they were at in their college careers when they wrote the articles and what they are doing after the article is published.
While the earlier volumes do not contain abstracts, the titles give clear enough descriptions of what the author is writing about in order for a reader to know what they will be reading in the article. For example, while looking through the articles of volume three, a reader can tell exactly what Amanda Marshall will be writing about in her article “Rhetoric of Anorexia: Eating as a Metaphor for Living,” or what Rebecca Feldmann will be discussing in her article “Discovering the Truth: The Operation of Ethos in Anti-Smoking Advertisements.” While those two articles focus on writing in different aspects, articles like “Feminist Figures or Damsels in Distress? The Media’s Gendered Misrepresentation of Disney Princesses,” by Isabelle Gill, focus on a more political topic. The journal even includes topics on religion. One example being Natalie Selah’s article “Crafting Theology: Toward a Theory of Literacy Smiths.” Another example of religion in this journal is Madeline J. Crozier’s article “The Melting Pot as a God-Term.” There are also articles that focus on specific time periods, articles like “American Womanhood and The New Woman: A Rhetorical Consideration of the Development and Circulation of Female Stereotypes, 1890-1920” by Rachel Lynn Stroup. Staring in 2010, they had a section dedicated to showcase first-year writers along with other articles that have the normal variety of students. The wide variety of subjects within the articles of the journal would attract readers of all disciplines to read the journal.
For students that attend Tennessee Tech, the journal can be accessed through the library’s website. The link for the full text option allows students to access all volumes of the journal and all of the articles within each volume. For anyone else looking to read this journal, a simple Google search will take you to the Montana State University website where they house all volumes, and articles within each volume, in the archives tab. This journal is very useful for all undergraduates that would want a paper published in a journal,and it could also be useful to a range of students, or curious readers, if they are interested in any of the topics that are being published.
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