ENG 423 Calendar of Readings & Responsibilities*
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1/16 |
Syllabus. Injection. |
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1/18
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Familiarize yourself with website for the course: www.unm.edu/~gmartin & the e-reserve site http://ereserves.unm.edu/courseindex.asp (password: study423 )
Read: Offutt's "The Eleventh Draft" (e) Read: "Essayists and the Essay" (e) Read: "The Treadmill Journal" Write: Reading Response #1: 2-3 page Reflection on (1) Your revision process (2) Your thoughts on Offutt's essay (3) Your thoughts on "Essayists and the Essay"
Start Treadmill Journal In Class: Intros & Devise Workshop Schedule |
Week 2
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1/23
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Read: "Somehow Form a Family" Tony Early Read: Vivian Gornick's "The Situation & the Story" (e) Write: Reading Response #2 (Web Handout) |
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1/25 |
Read: "My Father's Brain" Jonathan Franzen Read: "Linear Design" & "Modular Design" Madison Smartt Bell Write: Reading Response #3
In Class: Reading Response--examples |
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1/30 |
Read: "Biography of a Dress" Jamaica Kincaid Read: Philip Lopate's "Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character" Write: Reading Response #4 |
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2/1 |
Read: "Consider the Lobster" David Foster Wallace Read: "Taking Yourself Out of the Story" Philip Gerard Write: Reading Response #5 |
#s 1 & 2 Distribute to Class |
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2/6 |
Read: "Maintenance" Naomi Shihab Nye
Read: An Interview with Jane Smiley"
Write: Reading Response #6 WS #1 Write: Peer Response |
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2/8 |
Read: "Being Brians" Read: "Jane Smiley's "What Stories Teach Their Writers" Write: Reading Response #7
WS #2 Write: Peer Response |
#s 3 & 4 Distribute Drafts to Class |
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2/13 |
Read: "Bags in Trees" Ian Frazier Read: Stephen Koch's "Working & Reworking: Early Drafts & the Techniques of Revision" Write: Reading Response #8
WS #3 Write: Peer Response |
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2/15 |
Read: "The Solace of Open Spaces"
Gretel EhrlichRead: Sontag's "Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat
Steps 2 and 3 as Needed"
Write: Reading Response #9 WS #4 |
#s 5-8 Distribute Drafts to Class |
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2/20 |
WS 5&6 |
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2/22 |
WS 7&8 | #s9-12 Distribute to Class |
Week 7
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2/27 |
WS 9&10 |
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2/29 |
WS 11&12 |
Week 8
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3/6 |
Read: Melody Gee's 3 Drafts of "Back Home" Read: Revising for the Middle Draft (website handout) Write: Reading Response #6: Eliminations, Additions, Developments.
(A) Eliminations: Make a list of 5 eliminations across the 3 Drafts. (B) Additions: Make a list of 5 additions in the second and third drafts. (5 things that weren't in the first draft at all but were added in the second or third drafts.) (C) Developments: Make a list of 5 developments across the second and third drafts. (5 things that were present in the first draft and developed substantially in subsequent drafts.) (D) What can you emulate in these drafts?
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3/8 |
Read: Dana Salvador's 3 Drafts of "After the Harvest" Read: Stephen Koch's "Working & Reworking: Early Drafts & the Techniques of Revision" Write: Reading Response #8: Eliminations, Additions, Developments.
(A) Eliminations: Make a list of 5 eliminations across the 3 Drafts. (B) Additions: Make a list of 5 additions in the second and third drafts. (5 things that weren't in the first draft at all but were added in the second or third drafts.) (C) Developments: Make a list of 5 developments across the second and third drafts. (5 things that were present in the first draft and developed substantially in subsequent drafts.) (D) What can you emulate in these drafts? Collect Treadmill Journals |
Week 9
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3/13 & 3/15 |
Spring Break |
Week 10
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3/20 |
Read: Molly Cooney's 3 drafts of "Missing Pieces" (e) Write: Reading Response #7: Eliminations, Additions, Developments.
(A) Eliminations: Make a list of 5 eliminations across the 3 Drafts. (B) Additions: Make a list of 5 additions in the second and third drafts. (5 things that weren't in the first draft at all but were added in the second or third drafts.) (C) Developments: Make a list of 5 developments across the second and third drafts. (5 things that were present in the first draft and developed substantially in subsequent drafts.) (D) What can you emulate in these drafts? |
#1 & 2 Distribute |
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3/22 |
WS 1 & 2 |
3-6 Distribute |
Week 11
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3/27 |
WS 3 & 4 |
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3/29 |
WS 5 & 6 |
7-10 Distribute |
Week 12
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4/3 |
WS 7 & 8 |
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4/5 |
WS 9 & 10 |
11 & 12 Distribute |
Week 13
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4/10 |
WS 11 & 12 |
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4/12 |
TBA |
1 - 4 Distribute |
Week 14
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4/17 |
WS 1 & 2 |
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4/19 |
WS 3 & 4 |
5-8 Distribute |
Week 15
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4/24 |
WS 5 & 6 |
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4/26 |
WS 7 & 8 |
9-12 Distribute |
Week 16
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5/1 |
WS 9 & 10 |
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5/3 |
WS 11 & 12 |
Week 17
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5/8 |
Portfolios & Treadmill Journals Due in my office by 5PM |
* Assignments Due on the Date Listed