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Adam R. Hazlett |
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"I never let schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain |
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Adam R. Hazlett
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Teaching Philosophy I believe every person is a writer. We constantly create personas, identities and stories that represent ourselves to the world. If you carry on conversations or have ever related gossip to a friend, you are a writer. I believe that the secret to writing in an academic setting is much like learning what to say or not to say in front of a boss, a co-worker or a grandmother – it is a matter of learning conventions and applying observation and experience. Academic writing in an academic world is not always easy for writing students. I strive to provide each writer with the tools needed to write in any circumstance through analysis of purpose, audience, style and content in their writing.
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Courses In this class we will read a series of essays concerning human experience. We will delve into the conventions of writing while emphasizing critical thinking. I constantly ask students to not only struggle with the views and ideas presented in the material, but also to apply new ideas, perceptions, and/or interpretations to their life. In this class we will read a series of novels or plays. Although this class is focused on research writing and literary study, we ultimately are looking at what makes us tick as humans. We look at theme, structure, characterization, point of view and symbolism in the texts and then present our interpretations through academic writing. English 245 - Bible as Literature In this class we will read the Bible as a literary text. We do get into Biblical history and politics as well as information about how the Bible was constructed. This is not a religion class, but rather serves the purpose to investigate one of the most influential texts in western civilization.
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Resources BeliefNet Online Religious Studies Microsoft Word Formatting Assistance Page Theory Resources for 132 Students
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Professional Activity My foci of study are as numerous as there are fields to study. I try to look at scholarship as a way to gain insight into the human experience. Since everything is a part of that experience, I find everything fascinating. However, my professional fields of focus are composition theory, literary theory, Restoration literature, postmodern literature and religious literary texts. I consider myself a student of all literary theory and am actively searching for the "POST" beyond "postmodernism." I believe it is an exciting time in literary and sociological study. I recently worked with a few colleagues to create a Religious Studies Program here at HFCC. We are very excited to be offering an associate's degree in this field. Students will truly gain a deeper understanding of religion as we live in one of the most religiously diverse areas in the United States. I am the English and World Languages Division representative to the College Senate. I also am the co-advisor of HFCC Student Council. Finally, I am also involved in various college-wide and division committees. My creative interests reside in poetry and the novella. I am currently working on a collection of short stories and poems about growing up "between the mountains and the Midwest." I am dealing with the idea of identity in Appalachia and the Midwest and how that identity is constantly challenged and complicated by media, literary and social portrayals. Beyond my work in poetry and various professional pursuits, I sometimes write biographies for Gale Group, a division of Thomson Publishing. I have written for the Contemporary Black Biography and the Contemporary Hispanic Biography series. These biographies appear in print form and on the web in databases and web resources. See one of my biographies here. |
Background I was born and raised in a rural region of southeastern Ohio and one of the northernmost sections of Appalachia. The small town of Sugar Grove was the place that I called home. The village itself has 450+ residents and the school I attended, Berne Union, had 1000 students K-12 in the same building. I have worked in a series of places as a number of things. I have extensive experience in the food industry, working as both a kitchen manager at a children's overnight camp at Tar Hollow State Park and as an assistant chef at Clear Creek Guest Ranch. However, at the ranch, you didn't just work one job; I also built fences and barns, maintained landscaping, took care of horses, entertained guest with songs and storytelling and drove pick up and drop off vans. As far as my experience academically, I attended Ohio University out of high school on an academic scholarship. I intended to study computer science, but with the influence of my English professor, Dr. Bill Kuhre, I found myself deeply interested in the study of language and literature. I was soon changing my major and pursuing a degree in secondary education with focus on language arts. After teaching in Ghana, West Africa through an international work-abroad program, I changed my focus to post-secondary education. I attended Eastern Michigan University and received a Master of Arts degree in English Literature in 2002. Because of my work in Ohio University's political science department with Dr. James Franklin Henderson, I proceeded to work at Wayne State University in the political science department under Dr. Otto Feinstein on a non-profit civic action project called the Urban Agenda. After a fruitful nine months on this grant-funded position, I went to work in Cleveland, OH at Remington College, a private technology and business college. Later that year I happily accepted a position at Henry Ford Community College. |
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Purdue University Online Writing Lab University of Wisconsin-Madison's Writer's Handbook
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Hill’s Thesis Statement handout Buck County Community College Literary Analysis page The
Literary Link’s “Steps for Close Reading or Explication de texte” News and Media Links New York Times - Links to national, international and cultural news Drudge Report - Links to top stories, links to a great number of nationally syndicated columnists and also links to a great number of U.S. and world newspapers Guardian Unlimited - British newspaper with European, U.S. and international news National Public Radio - links to audio news stories World Newspapers - Links organized by country
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