Assignments

Research Assignment - Primary Texts
taught by Professor Houston Diehl at the University of Iowa
This assignment requires students to analyze primary sources by picking titles from EEBO and discovering particular aspects and themes of the text.

Research Assignment - Paradise Lost
taught by Professor Houston Diehl at the University of Iowa
This assignment requires students to look at aspects of Paradise Lost by using other primary sources found in EEBO to illuminate specific aspects of seventeenth century culture addressed by Milton.

Primary Source Diary
designed by Kristen Demlow, School of Information, University of Michigan
This assignment designed for middle and high school students, but applicable as well to early undergaduate teaching, requires students to investigate primary sources by creating a personal diary using particular titles.

"Milton, Donne, and their Contemporaries," (undergraduate class) and
"Studies in Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose." (graduate class)
taught by Professor Joseph Black of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville English Department
Professor Black has his students explore EEBO as a part of their introduction to the library and to bibliography. He uses the linked assignment in both the undergraduate class and the graduate class.

Sixteenth Century Literature
taught by Professor Jan Stirm at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
This assignment requires students to choose an author (from a selected list) on EEBO and gather information on their works found there. Also noting the centrality/marginality of those to other publications by the same author. Students were also to compare the Brown Woman Writers Project site to the EEBO resources.

English 421: Shakespeare
taught by Hillary Nunn at Michigan State University
This assignment required students to use the EEBO resources to gather background information on one of the plays covered in the syllabus.

Oxford University classes
This letter to John Tuck, the Oxford representative of the EEBO-TCP, refers to the use of EEBO resources in assigned papers in an undergraduate class on English Literature. It also describes the overall value of the EEBO resources to the students in that it has the texts in the original format with illustrations.

Readings in 16th- and 17th-Century Literature: Nonfiction Prose
taught by Alvin Snyder at the University of Iowa.
This letter to John Tuck, the Oxford representative of the EEBO-TCP, refers to the use of EEBO resources in assigned papers in an undergraduate class on English Literature. It also describes the overall value of the EEBO resources to the students in that it has the texts in the original format with illustrations.