Not all of these are required readings.  Some are posted here for reference only.  See "Calendar of Assignments" for specific reading assignments and due dates.

I. Essays by ETSU Students
Students wrote these for my composition courses in recent semesters.  I've arranged them here according to the mode or genre of the assignment for which they were written.  -- KOD

A . Narrative / Personal Experience
- Awaiting A Miracle: The Day My Son Was Born, By M.S., 1010, F04
- Brainwash Training, by J. Leonard, 1010 F99
- A Change Of Heart: I’m Keeping My Baby, by Anita Shell, 1010 S04
- Daddy’s Girl: Growing Up with an Alcoholic, by Lucy Diamond (pseudonym), 1010 S05
- My Poppop’s Last Days, by Lindsay Preskenis, 1010 F04
- Untraditional Love: One Girl’s Journey to Happiness When a Straight Girl Falls in Love with a Lesbian, by C.A.T. (pseudonymn), 3130 S05
- Welcome to the World: A Baby is Born, by Victoria Smith, 1010 F03
- Indian Chants: Revelations from the Deathbed, Carmen Brooks, 3040 F05
- What Your Lamaze Class Doesn’t Teach You: Survival Tips for Hosting a Party During Childbirth, by C. R., 3130 F05

B. Review / Criticism
- American Idol: Leaving Most Hopefuls with Nothing More than Shattered Dreams and Empty Pockets, by Mandy Coward, 1010 F04
- 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
- Would You Like Some Cheese With Your Whine?: "Sideways" Delivers, by Mary Fortune (pseudonymn), 3130 S05
- Working for Peanuts:  How Charles Schulz’s Characters Created a Holiday Tradition, by S. W., 3130 F05
- Supernatural and Just Plain Super: How "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Has Captured the Hearts of a Generation, by Lindy Russell, 3130 F05

C. Writing from Sources
-  Azerbaijan:  Land of Everlasting Flame, by Samuel Barry, 3130 F05
- Will the Circuit be Unbroken: Robert Moog and his Contribution to Modern Music, by Denise de Ribert, 3040 F05
- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Finding Nourishment in Fasting, by Kathryn Shanks, 3130 F05
- Faking It: The Fake Louis Vuitton Phenomenon, by Jewel Aldea, 3130 S05
- A Wealth of Wheat History that Leaves Wonder Bread® Wonderless, by Allyssa Chamberlain, 3130 S05

D. "How To" -- Expository/ Explanatory Writing
- A Beginner’s Guide to Bass Fishing, by P.H., 1010 F04
- How to Take Care of a Bearded Dragon Lizard, by JMC, 1010 F04
- How To Tame A Siamese Fighting Fish: Basic Upkeep of a Beta, by Megan Gilchrist, 1010 S05
- Romance in a Glass: Selecting Wine, by Anita Shell, 1010 S04
- Cooter Stew: A Southern Appalachian Family Tradition, by Carmen Brooks, 3130 F05
- Slinging Discs:  A Beginner's Guide to Frisbee-Golf for ETSU Students, by Chris East

II. Miscellaneous Professional Writing
Arranged in alphabetical order.  We may have occasion to refer to some of these, during the semester.
- "Absolute PowerPoint: Can a Software Package Edit Our Thoughts?," by Ian Parker, The New Yorker May 28, 2001.
- "Big and Bad: How the S.U.V. Ran Over Automotive Safety ["Commerce and Culture"]," by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker January 12, 2004: 28-33.  (Click on title to see the article as posted on Gladwell's website, or click here for cached version.)
- 'Blink': Hunch Power [a 2,000-wd review of Malcolm Gladwell's new book], by David Brooks, New York Times Review of Books, January 16, 2005
- "Book and Periodical Illustration [in America, 1820-1870]," by K. E. O'Donnell, in American History Through Literature, 1820-1870, ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert D. Sattelmeyer, Charles Scribner's Sons, forthcoming 2005
- Excerpt from "City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan."
- "http://www.when_is_enough_enough?.com: Putting Microcomputers in Their Place," by Paul De Palma, The American Scholar Winter 1999.
- from "Life in a New-York Market", one of Walt Whitman's New York Aurora Editorials, 1842.
- "The Moral-Hazard Myth: The Bad Idea Behind Our Failed Health-Care System," by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker 29 August 2005.
- "Of Smels and Odors [Chapter LV]," from Montaigne's Essays, Florio's translation (1603).
- "One Stop a 'Super' Chicken Choice," a food review by Fred Sauceman, posted at the WETS web site, Johnson City.
- "Red Mike (Lost and Found New York)," by James Stevenson, from New York Times Online, August 2005.
- Review of Blackwater Chronicle, by K. E. O'Donnell, from Appalachian Journal 31, 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2004).
- "Search and Deploy:  The Race to Build a Better Search Engine." by Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 29 May 2000: 88-100.
- "Something Borrowed: Should a Charge of Plagiarism Ruin Your Life?" from New Yorker Nov 22, 2004: 40-49.
- "There's a Skeleton In A Trainyard In East Tennessee," by Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder, Blue Ridge Country magazine's online edition, 2000.
- "Worms, Germs, and Christmas," by David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 1 August 2005.

III.  Writing about Writing
- "The Fine Art of Getting It Down on Paper, Fast" [editorial], New York Times, May 15, 2005.
- Letter to Helen Keller from Mark Twain, St. Patrick's Day, 1903, on plagiarism.  [Posted at an American Foundation for the Blind website.]
- Handouts from The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
     http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html
- From California-based web-design and writing consultant, Ron Scheer:
    "Web Writing Workshop: How to Make Writing Come Alive"
- From writing consultant and business management teacher, Michael Harvey:
    "Style: Unlearning"; "Style: Clarity"; "Style: The Plain Style"; "Style: Concision"
    "Plagiarism"; "Effective Quoting"
- "SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator."  This is a computer program, written by computer science students at M.I.T., that automatically generates computer-science academic essays.