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READINGS ENGL389 Topics in Writing: Ethnographic Writing

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LEE TORDA
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Bridgewater State University
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Spring 2018 Office Hours:
M 2:00-3:00
W 11:00-12:00

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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
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W READ:  In Bird by Bird, please read the introduction (starts on page xi) and pages 3-20.
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12 FEBRUARY 2018 (WEEK FIVE)
M READ: Killing Wolves
killing_wolves.simpson.pdf
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W READ: Cop Diary
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19 FEBRUARY 2018 (WEEK SIX)
W READ: In Bird by Bird pages 74-80. ​and 132-145 in Telling True Stories
set.design.lamott.pdf
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scenes.telling.true.pdf
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12 MARCH 2018 (WEEK NINE)
M READ: Selections from “My War Gone By, I Miss It So.”
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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 
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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 
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9 APRIL 2018 (WEEK THIRTEEN)
M READ: ​

SAMPLE STUDENT EVALUATIONS
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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+): ​
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