8/26

523 Success Stories & Writing for a Readership.  Getting There:  Martin's Credit Slips. 

Introductions.  Syllabus. 

Being Brians.

9/2

• Hampl: Memory and Imagination. (e-reserve)

• Gornick:  The Situation & the Story (e-reserve)

• Ford's "Reading" (e-reserve)

• Oates' Introduction to Best American Essays of the Century

• Franzen's "My Father's Brain" (e-reserve)

• Reading Response (w) for Franzen

• Quotes on Writing (w)

• Craft Features:  Quotes, Ideas, Questions, Working Definitions (w)

• Feel Overwhelmed

• Workshop Schedule--in class

9/9

• Fadiman's THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN

• Reading Response

• Revising for the Middle Draft (w)

9/16

• Oate's "They All Just Went Away" (BAE)
• Reading Response

• Peer Responses (w)

• Workshops (w)

First Workshop (2)*

9/23

• Philip Lopate: "Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character" (e-reserve)
• Susan Sontag's "Read, Write, Rewrite (e-reserve)

First Workshop (4)

9/30

• Gawande's COMPLICATIONS
• Smiley:  What Stories Teach Their Writers:  The Purpose and Practice of Revision (e-reserve)

First Workshop (3)

10/7

• Gawande's COMPLICATIONS

• Girard's "Taking Yourself Out of the Story" (e-reserve)  

• Reading Response

First Workshop (3)

10/14

Fall Break

10/21

Lee Gutkind Visits

FOREVER FAT

Reading Response

10/28

• Dillard's "Total Eclipse" (BAE)

• Reading Response

Second Workshop (2)

11/4

• Gourevitch's WE WISH TO INFORM YOU...

• Reading Response

Second Workshop (1)

11/11

• Ehrenreich's "Cancerland"  (e-reserve)

Second Workshop (2)

11/18

• Gopnik's "Bumping into Mr. Ravioli" (e-reserve)

• Reading Response

Second Workshop (2)

11/25

12/2

•  Herr's "Illumination Rounds" (BAE)

Second Workshop (3)

12/9

• Rachel Pratt and Tani Arness visit with early and published drafts of "Negotiating Bride Price" and "Red Dirt Paths" all on e-reserve.

• Reading Response

Second Workshop (2)

12/16

 Party at My House