Readings

The following are links for all of the texts that we will be reading throughout the semester.  Any changes will be announced and posted as well.  Please be sure to contact me if there are any questions.  Please PRINT each reading before class.  Questions and handouts about texts that we are reading will be given out in class or posted throughout the semester.

 

Here is a link to the text “Active Reading” by Brogan Sullivan

Here is the link to Malcolm X’s “Learning To Read”

Here is a link to Ursula K Le Guin’s “Death of the Book”.  Please be sure to scroll down.

This is the link to Chuck Klosterman’s text

Here is the link to the Friedrich Nietzsche excerpt

Here is the link to Sherry Turkle’s article

Here is the link to Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”

Here is the link to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”

Here is the link to Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”

Here is the link to Martin Luther King Jr’s Speech

Here is the link to Jessica Guerra’s “Williamsburg Renaissance”

The following are all the links to reading assignments from In Conversation and Writing Commons on the syllabus and assignments calendar in order of assignments:

Assignment 1:  Introduction to Writing as a Process

Assignment 2: Understanding Rhetoric

Assignment 3: Summary Writing

Assignment 4: Read about Description

Assignment 5: Read about claims, reasons, and evidence

Assignment 6: Read about structures: the thesis statement

Assignment 7: Comparison and Contrast

Assignment 8: Using Transitional Language

Assignment 9: Introduction to College Research

Assignment 10: Writing a Research Paper

Assignment 11: How to cite others’ works: citation and plagiarism

Assignment 12: Evidence, Documentation, and MLA formatting