| I. Writing/Revising: Focusing, Summary vs. Analysis, Answering Questions, and Commenting Well |
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Introduction to Course, fill out Index Cards.
Consider Our "Claims to Distinction."
Begin your autobiography as a writer.
Suggestions for Paper #1.
Brainstorming. |
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Brief Autobiography As a Writer (3 pages).
Discuss Rodriguez, "The Achievement of Desire." |
Reading Notes, and Proposal Due |
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Small Group Workshops for Comments.
(Bring 3 copies of draft to class.) |
Draft #1 Due |
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Discuss Jacobs, Incidents.
(N.B.) Assignment #2 presented and discussed. |
Proposal #2 Due by Email |
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Small Group Workshops. |
Draft #2 Due |
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Read The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White. Bring questions.
Large workshop on revising thesis, focus, organization, implications, etc. |
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Discuss Woolf, "A Sketch of the Past."
(Conferences this week. Sign up in class.) |
Revision #2 (of Draft #1 or #2) Due |
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Continue Discussing Woolf.
Assignment #3 presented. |
Proposal #3 Due |
| II. Overall Shapes of Essays: Organizing Principles, Models of Whole Selves and Whole Ideas |
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Small Group Workshops. |
Draft #3 Due |
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Large Group Workshop of Paper(s). |
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Read Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son" + "Stranger in the Village." Discuss. |
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Assignment #4 presented.
Brainstorming. |
Revision #3 Due
Proposal #4 Due |
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Small Group Workshops. |
Draft #4 Due |
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Large Group Workshop. |
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| 16 |
Discuss Kingston's "No Name Woman" and "White Tigers."
(Individual conferences twice a week. Sign up in class.)
Assignment #5 presented. |
Revision #4 Due
Portfolio Due |
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Small Group Workshops. |
Draft #5 Due |
| III. Fine-tuning: Linguistic Precision: Uses of Fantasy, the Personal, and History |
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Discuss Griffin, "Our Secret." |
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Group Workshop.
Assignment #6 presented. |
Revision #5 Due
Proposal #6 Due |
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Brainstorm Introductions to Portfolios/Retrospective Essays.
(Revising draft #6-optional; you write it so you can choose among essays.) |
Draft #6 Due |
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Portfolios and Draft of Introduction Due |
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Revised Introductions or Retrospective Essays Due
No Late Papers |