READINGS ENGL389 Topics in Writing: Ethnographic Writing
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Spring 2018 Office Hours:
M 2:00-3:00 W 11:00-12:00 and by appointment. Need to make an appointment? Click here: https://goo.gl/3CqLf |
22 JANUARY 2018 (WEEK TWO)
M READ: Rob Cannata’s Essay “Rocky Horror” featured in The Undergraduate Review available here.
W READ: Kirsten Ridlen’s “Seeing New Englandly” featured in The Undergraduate Review available here.
29 JANUARY 2018 (WEEK THREE)
M READ: In Telling True Stories 3- 28, available here
| stly337p118012415210.pdf |
W READ: In Bird by Bird, please read the introduction (starts on page xi) and pages 3-20.
| stly337p118012415260.pdf |
12 FEBRUARY 2018 (WEEK FIVE)
M READ: Killing Wolves
M READ: Killing Wolves
| killing_wolves.simpson.pdf |
W READ: Cop Diary
| cop.diary.reading.pdf |
19 FEBRUARY 2018 (WEEK SIX)
W READ: In Bird by Bird pages 74-80. and 132-145 in Telling True Stories
W READ: In Bird by Bird pages 74-80. and 132-145 in Telling True Stories
| set.design.lamott.pdf |
| scenes.telling.true.pdf |
12 MARCH 2018 (WEEK NINE)
M READ: Selections from “My War Gone By, I Miss It So.”
M READ: Selections from “My War Gone By, I Miss It So.”
| my.war.gone.by.pdf |
W LISTEN: “24 Hours at The Golden Apple,” a classic episode of the radio program This American Life. Listen here.
19 MARCH 2018 (WEEK TEN)
M READ: In Bird by Bird pages 74-80
M READ: In Bird by Bird pages 74-80
| bird.character.dialogue.pdf |
W LISTEN: This American Life Episode from that High School—the two parter. Listen here.
2 APRIL 2018 (WEEK TWELVE)
M READ: Margie Howe’s “Letter from Israel” featured in The Undergraduate Review, available here.
W READ: In Telling True Stories, pages 145-159
2 APRIL 2018 (WEEK TWELVE)
M READ: Margie Howe’s “Letter from Israel” featured in The Undergraduate Review, available here.
W READ: In Telling True Stories, pages 145-159
| complicated_stories.telling.true.pdf |
9 APRIL 2018 (WEEK THIRTEEN)
M READ:
SAMPLE STUDENT EVALUATIONS
Here is a sample of COMMENTS FOR A DRAFT:
M READ:
SAMPLE STUDENT EVALUATIONS
Here is a sample of COMMENTS FOR A DRAFT:
| sample_evals.docx |
Here is a sample of COMMENTS FOR A MIDTERM PORTFOLIO (note that the grades themselves do not appear, but all of these students received between an A and a B+):
| sample.grade.letters..docx |