Freud “Jokes and their Relationship to the Unconscious”

John Morreal “Taking Laughter Seriously”

Morreal “The Social Value of Humor”

Gordon Harvey “Elements of Academic Writing”

Ma […]

Chuck Palahniuk “Coping with Crisis”

Excerpts from the Writer’s Notebook II:

The NonLinear Narrative by Adam Braver

Story and Dream Jim Krusoe

Dont’t Write What You Don’t Know Johnston

David Foster […]

Ta-Nehisi Coates “The First White President”

A Short introduction to Afro-Pessimism

Andrew Marantz “Birth of a Supremacist”

“Imperium” by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Rebecca Solnit “80 books no women shoul […]

Essay Readings

“Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
“Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising” by Jack Solomon
“Black Monsters/White Corpses: Kanye’s Racialized Gender […]

Reading Response assignment (blog posts) and supplementary Close Reading handout.

Essay One assignment  (Due 2/28)

Essay Two assignment (Due 4/9)

Final Paper assignment (Due 5/21)

Here you will find links to articles, reports and other background material that will inform our research

List of Spring 2018 Urban Studies studies courses:

Sp 2018 classes and counts

Research/resources […]

Note: Schedule and/or documents are subject to change at any time

Class Documents (all in PDF form)

English 110 Syllabus

Essay #1 Handout

Getting Started on QWriting

Help Page for QWriting

Unit […]

For extra credit reading synopses, create a post as a comment below including the date of the reading, the reader(s) who presented, and your brief synopsis of the piece(s) read.

The course involves the following responsibilities and assignments

Response papers: 25%

Report on archive visit: 10%

Journal historiographies: 10%

Final project: 30%

Class participation: […]

Annotations Assignment Guide

242 short essay assignment

242 research paper assignment

Letter Requirements

Meeting Schedule

The class is organized into three units or progressions, each culminating in a graded essay assignment. You will also complete in-class and homework exercises throughout each progression; this work will contribute […]

Please remember: All assignments must be PRINTED and brought to class the day they are due! Additionally, when assignments are required for in-class use (for workshop, for example), you must also bring the […]

Annotated Bib Format Example

Essay Two

Essay 3

Annotated Bib Format Example

Assignment Overview
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Essay 1: Close reading of a text using selected literary terms. 4-5pp.

Focus on one of the poems we’ve read. Raise an i […]