Week 1: August 25-29
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Homework:
- (Last day to drop/add is 8/29/97)
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Week 2: September 1-5
- No class Monday: Labor Day
- Student Profile Due 9/5/97
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Homework:
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Week 3: September 8-12
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Writing from Imagination (Bedford 5)
- What Does Writing Involve? (Handbook 1)
- Class Activities:
- Thesis Construction
- Picture Writing
- Borodin "Nocturne for Strings in C"
- Tchaikovsky "Serenade for Strings in D"
- Readings:
- Dennis Holt "Some Characteristics of Good Writing"
- Brent Staples "Black Men and Public Spaces" (Cultures 321)
- Michael T. Kaufman "Of My Friend Hector and My Achilles' Heel"
(Cultures 326)
- Homework:
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Week 4: September 15-19
- Essay #1 Due 9/19/97 (post to homepage and email to instructor)
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Writing from Recall (Bedford 1)
- Writing from Reading (Bedford 3)
- Writing from Conversation (Bedford 4)
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Chinese Folk Tale "Women" (Cultures 95)
- Scott Russell Sanders "The Men We Carry in Our Minds" (Bedford 499)
- Homework:
- Essay #1 rewrites (due 9/26/97)
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Week 5: September 22-26
- Essay #1 Rewrites Due 9/26/97
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Analyzing (Bedford 6)
- Strategies for Generating Ideas (Bedford 15)
- How Do You Prepare and Plan to Write? (Handbook 2)
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- John King Fairbank "Footbinding" (Cultures 25)
- Homework:
- Essay #1 rewrites (2) (due 10/3/97)
- Essay #2 (due10/10/97)
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Week 6: September 29-October 3
- Essay #1 Rewrites (2) Due 10/3/97
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Taking a Stand (Bedford 9)
- Strategies for Planning (Bedford 16)
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Richard Wright "Discovering Books" (Cultures 201)
- Toni Cade Bambara "The Lesson" (Cultures 210)
- Homework:
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Week 7: October 6-10
- Essay #2 Due 10/10/97.
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Explaining Causes and Effects (Bedford 8)
- Strategies for Drafting (Bedford 17)
- How Do You Write Critically in College? (Handbook 5)
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Gabriel García-Márquez "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon"
(Cultures 486)
- Homework:
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Week 8: October 13-17
- Essay #2 Rewrites due 10/17/97
- Conferences, no class 10/13 through 10/17
- Mid-term Self Assessment due 10/13/97 before scheduled conference
- Homework:
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Week 9: October 20-24
- Essay #3 Due 10/24
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Strategies for Developing (Bedford 18)
- Strategies for Revising and Editing (Bedford 19)
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Anton Chekhov "Lady with a Lapdog" (handout)
- Last day to drop with a grade of "W": 10/24/97
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Week 10: October 27-31
- Essay #3 Rewrites Due 10/31/97
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Steve Olson "Year of the Blue-Collar Guy" (Bedford 542)
- Tomoyuki Iwashita "Why I Quit the Company" (Cultures 255)
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Week 11: November 3-7
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Conducting Library Research (Bedford 28, Handbook 32)
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Homework:
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Week 12: November 10-14
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
- Movie: Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
- Readings:
- J. G. Ballard "The Enormous Space" (handout)
- Homework:
- Essay #4 (due 11/21/97)
- Choose a poem for discussion next week
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Week 13: November 17-21
- Essay #4 Due 11/21/97
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Writing in Class (Bedford 13)
- Writing About Literature (Art) (Bedford 12)
- Class Activities:
- Readings:
- Kafka "The Hunger Artist" (Handout)
- Homework:
- Final HTML Portfolio (due 12/5/97)
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Week 14: November 24-28
- Lecture/Discussion:
- (cont.) Writing About Literature (Art) (Bedford 12)
- Class Activities:
- No class Friday, 11/28: Thanksgiving
- Readings:
- Homework:
- Final HTML Portfolio (due 12/5/97)
- Essay #4 re-writes (due 12/1/97)
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Week 15: December 1-5
- Essay #4 Re-writes Due 12/1/97
- Final HTML Portfolio Due 12/5/97
- Conclude Course
- Class Activities:
- Peer-assessment of HTML Portfolios
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Exam Week: December 8-12
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