GARY ENNS
MFA, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Professor of English
ABOUT GARY ENNS
Gary Enns received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from California State University, Fresno. He currently teaches literature, composition, and creative writing for the CCOnline and Kern River Valley Campuses of Cerro Coso Community College.
In addition to teaching, Enns serves as Region V Co-Director for the English Council of California Two Year Colleges (ECCTYC), a statewide and nationally recognized organization that includes departments of English and their faculty in all public and private two-year colleges in California. ECCTYC is the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) and a part of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
CREATIVE PROJECTS
Enns has written fiction, poems, and pop music. His stories have appeared in publications such as Granta, Crazyhorse, The Santa Barbara Review, The Willow Review, and Southern Humanities Review.
Since 2000, Enns has coordinated and edited Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literature and Art.
LINKS OF INTEREST
Ruined by Books: Gary's Academic Blog
WRITING TIPS
This list is under development. Use freely. Please email any corrections.
MLA Style Using MS Word 2007.pdf
MLA Documentation Using MS Word 2007.pdf
MLA Documentation Using MS Word 2003
Marking Source Titles Correctly
Present Tense and Literary Study
Punctuating Parenthetical Citations
Punctuation with Quotation Marks
Sources to Avoid in Academic Writing
CLASSES
View the list of courses Gary frequently teaches.
STUDENT LINKS
Literary Review Self Evaluation
Writing Self-Evaluation 4 (English 70 KRV students, download this, complete it in your word processor, print, and staple to the front of your paper before you turn it in.)
Journal: Making Arguments About Literature
WRITERS ON WRITING
"Books are humanity in print."
– Barbara W. Tuchman (American popular historian and author, 1912-1989)
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
– Henry Miller (American Author and Writer, 1891-1980)
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
– E. M. Forster (English Novelist and Essayist, 1879-1970)
"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart."
– Salman Rushdie (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)
Contacts
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Office: KRV Campus, Room 3 | Phone: (760) 379-5501
Last updated 09/18/08 04:47:38 PM