Week 1 (Jan 17)  What makes good writing?  Elements of writing.  Models of the writing process.  Invention.
Week 2 (Jan 24)  Focus on thesis and organization.
Draft of essay 1 due.  Bring a total of 3 copies of your draft, for writing groups.
- Read Murray, chaps 1-3, 7, 9.
- Print out and read the following essays.  Bring the printouts to class:
    * Welcome to the World: A Baby is Born, by Victoria Smith, 1010 F03
    * Sex, Drugs, and Acoustic Pop: Coming to Grips with Groupie-dom, by Jewel Aldea, 3130 S05
    * Cooter Stew, by Carmen Brooks, 3130 F05
    *  from "Life in a New-York Market", one of Walt Whitman's New York Aurora Editorials, 1842
    * Worms, Germs, and Christmas, by David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 1 August 2005
- Read and bring to class the following, from the writing center web site at the University of North Carolina:  Responding to Other Peoples' Writing; Response Worksheet.

*  Special: click here for guidelines to cover memo for draft 1, Jan 24.

Week 3 (Jan 31)  Focus on style.
Essay 1 due.
- Read Harvey, chaps 1-3, 5
- Print out and read the following essays.  Bring the printouts to class:
    * Davy Crockett Truck Stop: A Great Place to Eat, Anytime of the Day or Night, by J. M., 3130 F05
    * Intimacy in a Strip Club: A Closer Look at "Closer", by Christi Jensen, 3130 S05
    * Revisiting Nirvana’s "Unplugged in New York", by Jeremy Arnold, 3130 S05
    * Review of Blackwater Chronicle, by K. E. O'Donnell, from Appalachian Journal 31, 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2004)
    * Web Writing Workshop: How to Make Writing Come Alive, by Ron Scheer (California-based web-design and writing consultant)

Week 4 (Feb 7)  Focus on development and support.
Draft of essay 2 due.  - Read Part One (p.1-95) in Lamott.  - Read Flanagan, p.148 in ASME collection.

Week 5 (Feb 14)  Focus on editing, grammar and proofreading.
Essay 2 due.  Bring the following to class:  your grammar handbook; essay 1 with comments; draft of essay 2 with comments.
Read Harvey chap. 5 and Murray chap. 10, and bring both those books to class.

Week 6 (Feb 21)  Focus on making assignments.
Draft of essay 3 due: college writing "mode" of your choice.
Read Horvath, "The Components of Written Response: A Practical Synthesis of Current Views," 1984 (handout)
Read Graff, parts I and II (p.1-112).

Week 7 (Feb 28)  Focus on academic writing.
Essay 3 due.
Read part III of Graff (p115-207), plus epilogue (p275-78).
In ASME collection, read the following: Boo (p.52), Hersch (p.167), Carlson (p.124).
Read excerpts from Pollan and Larsen (handouts).
Read the following four online editions of 19th-century poems, edited by students in my American lit class last fall.  Decide which one is your favorite and print that one out and bring it to class:  http://www.etsu.edu/writing/amlit1_f05/poems.htm

Week 8 (Mar 14)  Draft of essay 4 due: academic writing (writing from other texts).
Read the following, online (no need to bring the printout to class): "You Can Lead a Whore to Culture: A legal and social discussion of marriage and its relationship to the World’s Oldest Profession," by Alexis Miller [pseud.].
Print and read the following, and bring the printouts to class:
- "There's a Skeleton In A Trainyard In East Tennessee," by Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder, Blue Ridge Country magazine's online edition, 2000.
- Will the Circuit be Unbroken: Robert Moog and his Contribution to Modern Music, by Denise de Ribert

Week 9 (Mar 21)  Essay 4 due.
Shortened class period today.  We'll walk over to the dome at 6:45 to hear Maya Angelou.
Read the following, regarding documentation/ citation and plagiarism:
- "Something Borrowed: Should a Charge of Plagiarism Ruin Your Life?" from New Yorker Nov 22, 2004: 40-49.
- "What Helen Keller Saw" [review], by Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker June 16/23 2003. (This article explains the circumstances surrounding the Helen Keller plagiarism controversies.  Click on title to see the article as posted on the New Yorker website, or click here for cached version.)
- Letter to Helen Keller from Mark Twain, St. Patrick's Day, 1903, on plagiarism.  [Posted at an American Foundation for the Blind website.]

Also read the following short articles regarding the Davinci Code lawsuit now ongoing [these articles were posted here on Sat. March 18]:
- Associated Press [no author listed].  Passages Cited as Similar in 'Da Vinci,' 'Holy Blood' Books.  The Associated Press.  March 17, 2006.
- James Button. The Author, His Wife, Their Book & the Other.  Sydney [Australia] Morning Herald.  March 16, 2006.
- Jill Lawless.  Brown Acknowledges 'Reworking' Passages. The Associated Press. Wednesday, March 15, 2006.

Week 10 (Mar 28)  Draft of essay 5, Essay about teaching writing.
Continuing discussion of documentation/ citation and plagiarism.  Bring your grammar handbook to class.

Also bring to class your journal, along with a complete table of contents: for each entry, include 1) a title, 2) a one- or two- sentence description, 3) an approximate word count, and 4) page numbers.

The Future of Libraries, Part 1: The Technology of the Book;
The Future of Libraries, Part 2: The End of Books;
The Future of Libraries, Part 3: The Virtual Library.

Week 12 (Apr 11)  Grad students: bring drafts of your teaching materials.  Everybody: bring raw material that you'll begin sorting for your final portfolio.
Read Murray chaps 4-6 and 11-13.

Week 13 (Apr 18)  Grad students teaching materials due.  In-class presentations.
Read the following 8 articles, in ASME:  Wright (p.90), Hersch (p.166), Langewiesche (p.192), Trillin (p.330), Hillenbrand (p.358), Hadju (p.382), Wolfe (p.422), Junod (p.494).
For a copy of the photograph around which Junod builds his article, click here.

Week 14 (Apr 25)  Portfolio due.  More in-class presentations.
Read Lamott, parts II and III.

Final exam: Tuesday, May 2, 8:10-10:10pm