Welcome to the Home Page for Prof. Furr's  course The English Language ENGL 284-01
Fall 2023

ENGL 284-01    MR 12:45 - 2:00 p.m.  SBUS 025

I plan to put on this page links to all kinds of course information and other material related to the readings in this course.
Please let me know if you find any relevant sites on the Internet that other students should know about.

Email me here if you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or problems.

Please note: You may NOT use a cell phone in this class. Only laptops or tablets.

Cell phones must be put on airplane mde and put away where neither you nor I can see them during class

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NOTE: Some of my web pages have my old email address on them -- furrg@ALPHA.montclair.edu. This email address does not work any more! Do not email me at 'ALPHA'.

English Department Home Page


 

Homework Page

HawkCheck

Course Syllabus

Prof. Michael Drout, A History of the English Language. Course Guide -download it FREE here. -

Or get it from our Canvas page

How To Access the Databases in Sprague Library from Off-Campus

The Oxford English Dictionary Online

OED Pages on the History of the English Language

The List of Recommended Readings and Activities

Guidelines for
Biweekly Assignments

How To Produce 'Plain Text' for Emailing Your HW

Streaming Audio Instructions How to E-mail an Essay
Using the Copy-and-Paste
Method

(any E-mail client)
Professor Elly Van Gelderen's Page to Accompany her Textbook A History of the English Language, revised edition (2014)

Zulu language clicks  Khoisan language clicks  Miriam Makeba sings the "click song"  "Telling Tales in Proto-Indoeuropean"  Wikipedia on Schleicher's Fable (a story in Proto-Iindoeuropean)

MSU Bookstore Hours

 

IMPORTANT:   Whenever you email me, use the proper subject line:

                   Subj: Yourlastname  HLX  date assignment is due.

For example, if your last name is 'Robertson', and your are emailing me the assignment for September 22nd,

                    Subj: Robertson  HLX  September 22 [or, 9/22, or Sept. 22, etc.]

There MUST be a space before and after the HLX and no space between them.

This is so I can search for, and sort, them efficiently.

If you don't, I'll forward your e-mail right back to you.

 

How To Inform Me of Your Absence (preferably beforehand, but no later than the same day).

Email me at furrg - AT - mail.montclair.edu, with the following Subject line:

Lastname HLX [date of class you are absent] Absent

For example:

Subject: Robinson HLX   September 22  Absent

That way I'll be able to recognize, file, and later find, your email, and so give you credit for an "excused absence."

In addition, here are Links to other sites that are relevant to our course. This is really what you'll find on the rest of this page -- you can get to the other materials by "jumping" from the links above


PLEASE NOTE:

1. You must have at least two e-mail addresses for this course. 

2. You MUST use the MSU mail email account for this course. It is "free" -- i.e. you have already paid for it in your tuition.

To set up this account, go here.

NOTE: To use your MSU email, go to http://webmail.montclair.edu

Make sure that you have a non-MSU email account, in case MSU's email server isn't working (this seldom happens but we must be prepared.)

3. You will also need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader on your home/dorm computer. (It is already on all the computer lab computers at MSU). Download it from this page.

IMPORTANT:   Whenever you email me, use the proper subject line:

                   Subj: Yourlastname  HLX   date of the class for which assignment is due

                   The "HLX" tells me which class your email comes from.

For example, if your last name is 'Robertson' and your are emailing me the assignment for the class on September 22,

                    Subj: Robertson  HLX  September 22 (or, 9/22, or Sept.  22, etc.)

Note: NO YEAR! Please do not put the YEAR in your subject line!

If you don't, I'll forward your e-mail right back to you.

Be sure to "send a copy to yourself" of ALL your homework assignments!


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