Aug 28: Introduction, 4 Habits of Effective Writing
Sep 2: 2-3 Minute Introductions
Sep 4: Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense”; Style, Lesson 1; Writing Analytically, 12-24
Sep 9: Nietzsche; Style, 34-52
Sep 11: Freud, “On Dreams,” p. 5-32
Sep 16: Freud, p. 33-76
Sep 18: Freud; Thesis workshop
Sep 23: Poems by Wallace Stevens; Writing Analytically, Chap 2; Style, 152-155
Sep 25: Poems by Frost, Dickinson, Creeley
Sep 30: Writing Analytically, Chap. 3; exercise on binaries; PAPER 1 DUE
Oct 2: DuBois, “The Souls of Black Folk,” p. 1-35
Oct 7: DuBois, p. 36-50; Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Address”; Style, Lesson 5,
Oct 9: DuBois, p. 51-110
Oct 14: DuBois, p. 111-175; Style, pg 91-102
Oct 16: DuBois, p. 176-216
Oct 21: Poems by Hughes, Toomer, Brooks, Baraka
Oct 23: William Pope L., “The Black Factory”
Oct 28: Burnett, Killer of Sheep (film); Draft of Paper 2 Due (4 copies)
Oct 30: Peer Editing
Nov 4: Duras, “The Lover,” p.3-45; PAPER 2 DUE
Nov 6: Duras, p. 46-117; Style, Lesson 7
Nov 11: No Class – Veterans Day
Nov 13: Duras
Nov 18: Cortázar, “Blow Up” (maybe other stories, too); Writing Analytically, p. 120-136
Nov 20: Antonioni, “Blow Up” (film)
Nov 25: Cortázar, Antonioni; Writing Analytically, chapter 7
Nov 27: No Class – Thanksgiving Break
Dec 2: Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”
Dec 4: Woolf; Style, Lesson 12; Draft of Final Paper Due (4 copies)
Dec 9: Wrap up; Peer Edits
FRIDAY, Dec 12: FINAL PAPER DUE BY 3pm in MAILBOXES, 7408 Dwinelle
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Class description:
Reading the Present: Text and Meaning
The goal of this course is to develop the critical reading and argumentative skills necessary for writing college-level papers. Our overall focus will be on developing a rhetorical approach to textual analysis, which, briefly, means learning to attend not only to what a text says, but also to how it says - how the text’s language, pacing, structure and context (among other aspects) work to augment, counter, sustain or otherwise complicate the claims the text makes.
The centerpiece of this class will be a close reading of one of the most rhetorically interesting works of American letters: W. E. B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk, a book of numerous literary modes (philosophy, history, fiction, autobiography, sociology) that still bears enormous import on American discussions of race. In addition to the DuBois, we’ll also read some Nietzsche, some Freud, a number of poems, a novel (Marguerite Duras’ The Lover), and, if there’s time, a few shorter stories and essays.
As this is a 1A class, we’ll also be spending quite a bit of time working on writing, both on the general level of argumentative development and on the more concrete level of syntax, diction, sentence and paragraph construction. By the end of the class, you will be producing papers that are provocative, stylish, thoughtful and challenging.
The goal of this course is to develop the critical reading and argumentative skills necessary for writing college-level papers. Our overall focus will be on developing a rhetorical approach to textual analysis, which, briefly, means learning to attend not only to what a text says, but also to how it says - how the text’s language, pacing, structure and context (among other aspects) work to augment, counter, sustain or otherwise complicate the claims the text makes.
The centerpiece of this class will be a close reading of one of the most rhetorically interesting works of American letters: W. E. B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk, a book of numerous literary modes (philosophy, history, fiction, autobiography, sociology) that still bears enormous import on American discussions of race. In addition to the DuBois, we’ll also read some Nietzsche, some Freud, a number of poems, a novel (Marguerite Duras’ The Lover), and, if there’s time, a few shorter stories and essays.
As this is a 1A class, we’ll also be spending quite a bit of time working on writing, both on the general level of argumentative development and on the more concrete level of syntax, diction, sentence and paragraph construction. By the end of the class, you will be producing papers that are provocative, stylish, thoughtful and challenging.
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