Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introductions

Course Overview
Letter to me due
2 Voice and Sensibility

Audience

Analogy and Argument
Homework 1 due
3 Food and Memory, Family and Culture

What Makes Good Writing?
Homework 2 due
4 Share Journals

"Starving Children": The Meaning and Value of Shared Meals

Elements of the Essay
Homework 3 due
5 Discuss Fisher and Dillard

What is an Essay?

Ideas for Essay 1?
Homework 4 due

Draft of essay 1 due
6 Workshop Essay 1 Homework 5 due
7 Writing Clinic re: Essay 1

Bourdain and Bilger: Cooking As a Profession
Homework 6 due

Revise essay 1 due
8 Introduce Research Project

Watch Julia Child Episode and Discuss
Homework 7 due
9 The Book Review As an Essay

Gopnik and Acocella: Food and History
Homework 8 due

Journal entry on fast food nation due
10 Discuss Fast Food Nation, Part 1 Homework 9 due
11 Discuss Fast Food Nation, Part 2 Homework 10 due

Proposal for essay 3 due
12 Share Proposals and Refine Them

"Java Man": Food As Science and Symbol
Homework 11 due

Journal entry: link two readings due
13 Discuss Readings: Solutions to the Fast Food Culture?

The Economics of Our Food Supply
Homework 12 due

Proposal for essay 2 due
14 Work on Ideas for Essay 2 Homework 13 due

Draft of essay 2 due
15 Workshop Essay 2 in Small Groups Homework 14 due

Essay 3 revised proposal and annotated bibliography due 5 days after Lec #15
16 Writing Clinic: Issues From Essay 2 Homework 15 due

Revise essay 2 due on Lec #17
17 Library Visit Homework 16 due

Work on essay 3 due
18 Meetings re: Essay 3 Homework 17 due

Draft of essay 3 due
19 Workshop Essay 3 in Small Groups Homework 18 due

Work on revising essays as needed due
20 Writing Clinic: Issues From Essay 3

Alice's Restaurant
Homework 19 due

Proposal for oral presentation due 3 days after Lec #20
21 Meetings re: Essay 3 As Needed Homework 20 due

Revise essay 3 due
22 Writing Clinic As Needed Homework 21 due

Re-revise essay 2 due

Essay 3 due one day after Lec #22
23 Edit and Polish Essay 2 Re-revisions Homework 22 due

Work on oral presentation due
24 Oral Presentations Homework 23 due

Work on revision for portfolios due
25 Oral Presentations (cont.) Homework 24 due

Work on revision for portfolios due
26 Evaluations Homework 25 due

Portfolios all work due