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Assignments

Critical Response Papers -- Everyone must complete at least 6 of the 10 possible short response papers; response papers for Week 1 and Week 5 are required of all students. All response papers are due on Friday by 5 PM. Papers are submitted electronically via Collect It: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/collectit/dropbox/changed/3187.

Readings Presentation & Critical Questions -- a 3 to 5 minute oral presentation on one of the week's readings. For the presentation, you must generate a critical question to get the class discussion going for the day. Everyone must sign-up for at least one presentation. Presenters are then required to generate a 1-page handout for everyone in the class and post their day's question to the class blog with the subject line: "[date] READINGS PRESENTATION: [topic or idea]."

The American Imagination Critical Review -- a 500-750 word analytical review of a text you would think could be or should be included in our class. Critical Reviews are to be posted to the class blog.

Mash-Up "Mixed-Paper" Final Project -- only for students seeking W Credit or extra credit in the class -- a collection where you will 1) identify a critical question, claim, or concept that will frame and organize your project; 2) write a paragraph of introduction, a kind of prologue to the project explaining your overall goals; 3) select and revise and order four of your Critical Response Papers, which fit, explore, or support your organizing analytic; 4) include between each part of the project an image, verse, or quote from the readings or outside research that provides transition and furthers your analytical ‘story’; 5) write a paragraph of conclusion, a kind of epilogue to the project.

Organizing the Mixed Paper -- suggestions and strategies for developing an organizational analytic and making connections in your "mixed-paper" final project.

Unless otherwise arragned, Response Papers are due Fridays by 5 PM and are turned in electronically via Collect It.

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Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

ENGL250 Student Info Sheet & Release Form

Lister & Wells' "Seeing Beyond Belief" Quotes

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

Readings

All of the short readings for class are available via the Course Reader (for sale at Ave Copy, 4141 Univ. Way @ 42nd), or through the university’s online course reserves (http://eres.lib.washington.edu), or directly from the web. There are four other required texts, which are available at the UW Bookstore (or through any reputable bookstore, many of which can be found at used bookstores). Consult the course syllabus for the week each reading will be covered in class. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward. New York: Dover Publications, 1996.

Bradbury, Ray. "2026: There Will Come Soft Rains." The Martian Chronicles. New York: Bantam Books, 1950. 166-172.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Briggs, Laura. "Science." Eds. Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 205-208.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic Monthly (July 1945). 17 Sep. 2006.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/194507/bush.

Butler, Octavia. Dawn. New York: Aspect, 1987.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Delany, Samuel R. "Aye, and Gomorrah." Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. 91-101.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Penguin, 1985.

Dickinson, Emily. "Selected Poems." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1 + 2. Shorter 7th Edition. Ed. Baym, Nina. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 1197-1219.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Doctorow, Cory. "0wnz0red." A Place So Foreign and 8 More. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003. 208-243.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Merlin." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1 + 2. Shorter 7th Edition. Ed. Baym, Nina. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 488-492, 566-569.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Gibson, William. Neuromancer. New York: Ace, 2000.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland. New York: Dover Publications, 1998.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "If I Were a Man." Landweber's WMST 102 (Women's Worlds) Home Page. Fall 2007. 23 Sep. 2007. http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~landwebj/ww/gilman.htm.

Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959.

Gruesz, Kirsten Silva. "America." Eds. Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 16-22.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Gustafson, Sandra M. "Literature." Eds. Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 145-148.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Jefferson, Thomas. "The Declaration of Independence." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1 + 2. Shorter 7th Edition. Ed. Baym, Nina. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 338-346.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Lister, Martin and Liz Wells. "Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual." Reading Contexts. Ed. Gail Stygall. New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005: 431-479.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1 + 2. Shorter 7th Edition. Ed. Baym, Nina. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 649-660.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Lovecraft, H.P. "Pickman's Model." The Best of H.P. Lovecraft. New York: Del Rey, 1963. 42-51.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Pease, Donald E. "Exceptionalism." Eds. Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 108-112.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Pynchon, Thomas. "Entropy." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1 + 2. Shorter 7th Edition. Ed. Baym, Nina. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. 1541-1552.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Rice, Elmer. The Adding Machine. In Three Plays by Elmer Rice. New York: Hill and Wang, 1965.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Singh, Nikhil Pal. "Liberalism." Eds. Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 139-145.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Ed. Allison R. Ensor. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1982. 4-53.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

Yudice, Geroge. "Culture." Eds. Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 71-76.      (Also available via UW e-reserve).

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