ARTICLE AND ESSAY TECHNIQUE - enc3310-0001

COMMON TEXT:

On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion

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FOR DISCUSSION:

Commonplace Books http://www.toasted-cheese.com/absolute-blank/12-11/ http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/reading/commonplace.html

DaVinci's Notebooks http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_263

Reporter's Notebooks https://www.cjr.org/first_person/journalism-notebooks.php

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EXTRA READING:

Famous People Notebooks http://flavorwire.com/293994/a-peek-inside-the-notebooks-of-famous-authors-artists-and-visionaries

Travelers Notebooks https://www.travelers-company.com/products/trnote/about

Why I Write by George Orwell

Why I Write by Joan Didion https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/05/archives/why-i-write-why-i-write.html

How to Read Like A Writer by Mike Bunn https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/bunn--how-to-read.pdf

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: Bring a Writer's Notebook to class

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: NONE

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

Death of a Moth by Annie Dillard

Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf

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FOR DISCUSSION:

Death of a Fish by Adam Gopnik https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/07/04/death-of-a-fish

Living Dyingly by Edwidge Danticat

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html

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EXTRA READING:

Interview with Mary Oliver by Maria Shriver http://www.oprah.com/entertainment/maria-shriver-interviews-poet-mary-oliver

Writing Life: Introduction to The Art of Death by Edwidge Danticat

My Father's Suitcase by Orhan Pamuk https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/12/25/my-fathers-suitcase

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: upload a selfie of your notebook "in the wild"

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: NONE

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

On Conflict by Dinty Moore

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FOR DISCUSSION:

Selections from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Don't Marry the Fly

Syntax

Don't Tell, But Show

Be Specific

Go Further

Claim Your Writing

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EXTRA READING:

Seeing by Annie Dillard

Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%20Drafts.pdf

An Approach to Style Strunk and White http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: post "Syntax" exercise

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: NONE

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

Dying Together by Edwidge Danticat

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FOR DISCUSSION:

King by Matthew Dickman https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/01/king-2

A Happy Death from Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning by Claudia Rankine https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/magazine/the-condition-of-black-life-is-one-of-mourning.html

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EXTRA READING:

Andrew Garfield reads a small part of King Episode 3 27:07 http://a.co/5sQ0KNl

Lezley McSpadden announces bid for city council https://www.ksdk.com/video/news/local/ferguson/michael-browns-mother-lezley-mcspadden-running-for-ferguson-city-council/63-8216453

Olivia from Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: upload a page

BLOG: respond to assigned text

DRAFT: NONE

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

The View by Orhan Pamuk https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-view-3

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FOR DISCUSSION:

Spider Woman by Burkhard Bilger https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/spider-woman

Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle https://theamericanscholar.org/joyas-volardores/#.W3VPSC3MwWp

My Grandfather Walks in the Woods by Marilyn Nelson https://aaregistry.org/poem/my-grandfather-walks-in-the-woods-by-marilyn-nelson/

Serpents of Paradise by Edward Abbey

Characteristics of Life by Camille T. Dungy https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/characteristics-life

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: upload a selfie of your notebook "in the wild wild"

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: Essay #1 - Life in Death

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

In Wyoming by Mark Spragg https://commons.wvc.edu/ashank/engl201/ENGL%20201%20Document%20Library/The%20Place%20Essay/In%20Wyoming.pdf

You Do Not Belong Here by Jaquira Diaz https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/resistance-change-survival/selections/jaquira-diaz-656342/

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FOR DISCUSSION:

The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower from Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Homegoing, AD by Kima Jones from The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward

Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/making-fist

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: upload a memory

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: NONE

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston http://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf

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FOR DISCUSSION:

Zora Neale Hurston https://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/hurstonarchive/pdf/Lesson-Plan-Day-1.pdf

The Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washingon https://www.bartleby.com/1004/14.html

Of Mr. Booker T. Washington by W.E.B. Du Bois http://www.stjoe.k12.in.us/ourpages/auto/2013/1/22/60124169/W_E_B.pdf

Zora Neale Hurston’s Biography

Eatonville, Florida

A. Individual Empowerment

B. Erasure of Racial Lines

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EXTRA READING:

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-main-idea-of-Mr-Booker-T-Washington-and-Others

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: upload a quote OR let someone else write in your book

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: Essay #2 - Natural Observation

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

The Weight by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

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FOR DISCUSSION:

Notes from a Trip to Russia by Audre Lorde https://www.mpba.mp.br/sites/default/files/biblioteca/direitos-humanos/direitos-da-populacao-lgbt/obras_digitalizadas/audre_lorde_-_sister_outsider_1.pdf

What It Means to Be American by James Baldwin https://geographyandfilm.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/baldwin_full1.pdf

Upon This Rock by John Jeremiah Sullivan https://www.gq.com/story/rock-music-jesus

Writing the Travel Essay by Dinty Moore

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (part one; to page19) http://www.d.umn.edu/~pfarrell/Latin%20America/pdfs%20of%20readings/Jamaica%20Kinkaid%20A%20Small%20Place%20EXCERPTED.pdf

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: upload a selfie of your notebook "abroad"

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: Essay #3 - Home

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde https://www.mpba.mp.br/sites/default/files/biblioteca/direitos-humanos/direitos-da-populacao-lgbt/obras_digitalizadas/audre_lorde_-_sister_outsider_1.pdf

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FOR DISCUSSION:

Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood by James Baldwin http://challengingmalesupremacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Here-be-Dragons-James-Baldwin.pdf

The Gutted by Justin Chin

Her Body, Mine, and His by Dorothy Allison

Ode to the Blowjob by Sharon Olds https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/blowjob-vulgar-slang-audio-only

Arabesque by Gary Fisher TW

My Vomit Fetish, Myself by Melissa Broder

Batter My Heart, Three Person'd God by John Donne https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44106/holy-sonnets-batter-my-heart-three-persond-god

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EXTRA READING:

On James Baldwin's Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine by Joseph Vogel https://lithub.com/on-james-baldwins-radical-writing-for-playboy-magazine/

Three Poems by Justin Chin https://aaww.org/three-poems-justin-chin/

Interview with Melissa Broder https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/08/so-sad-today-melissa-broder-poet-twitter-book-mental-health

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: NONE

BLOG: respond to assigned texts

DRAFT: Essay # 4 - Place

WORKSHOP: NONE

COMMON TEXT:

Workshop Essay A

Workshop Essay B

Workshop Essay C

Workshop Essay D

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FOR DISCUSSION:

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: NONE

BLOG: NONE

DRAFT: Written Response

WORKSHOP: TBD

COMMON TEXT:

Workshop Essay E

Workshop Essay F

Workshop Essay G

Workshop Essay H

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FOR DISCUSSION:

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: NONE

BLOG: NONE

DRAFT: Written Response, Essay #5 - The Erotic

WORKSHOP: TBD

COMMON TEXT:

Workshop Essay I

Workshop Essay J

Workshop Essay K

Workshop Essay L

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FOR DISCUSSION:

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: NONE

BLOG: NONE

DRAFT: Written Response

WORKSHOP: TBD

COMMON TEXT:

Workshop Essay M

Workshop Essay N

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FOR DISCUSSION:

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: Workshop Notes

BLOG: Book List

DRAFT: Written Response

WORKSHOP: TBD

COMMON TEXT:

Workshop Essay O

Workshop Essay P

Workshop Essay Q

Workshop Essay R

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FOR DISCUSSION:

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: NONE

BLOG: NONE

DRAFT: Written Response

WORKSHOP: TBD

COMMON TEXT:

Workshop Essay S

Workshop Essay T

Workshop Essay U

Workshop Essay V

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FOR DISCUSSION:

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EXTRA READING:

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ASSIGNMENTS:

WN: "Flip Through"

BLOG: Why I Write

DRAFT: Written Response

WORKSHOP: TBD