ENG 423  Calendar of Readings & Responsibilities*

Week 1                                                                       

1/16

Syllabus.  Injection.

 

 

1/18

 

 

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

1/23

 

 

Read: "Somehow Form a Family"  Tony Early

Read: Vivian Gornick's "The Situation & the Story"  (e)

Write:  Reading Response #2  (Web Handout)

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Week 3 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Week 4    

2/6

Read:  "Maintenance" Naomi Shihab Nye                     Read:  An Interview with Jane Smiley"                         Write:  Reading Response #6

WS #1

Write: Peer Response

 

 

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

 

Week 5     

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

 

 

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

 

Week 6     

2/20

WS 5&6

 

 

2/22

WS 7&8 #s9-12 Distribute to Class

Week 7

2/27

WS 9&10  

 

2/29

WS 11&12

 

 

Week 8

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?

 

 

 

 

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

3/13 & 3/15

Spring Break

 

 

Week 10

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

 

3/22

WS 1 & 2

3-6 Distribute

 

Week 11

3/27

WS 3 & 4

 

 

3/29

WS 5 & 6

7-10 Distribute

 

Week 12

4/3

WS 7 & 8

 

 

4/5

WS 9 & 10

11 & 12 Distribute

 

Week 13

4/10

WS 11 & 12

 

 

4/12

TBA

1 - 4 Distribute

 

Week 14

4/17

WS 1 & 2

 

 

4/19

WS 3 & 4

5-8 Distribute

 

Week 15

4/24

WS 5 & 6

 

 

4/26

WS 7 & 8

9-12 Distribute

 

Week 16

5/1

WS 9 & 10

 

 

5/3

WS 11 & 12

 

 

Week 17

5/8

Portfolios & Treadmill Journals Due in my office by 5PM

 

 

* Assignments Due on the Date Listed