Fall 2008
Dr. Richard Nordquist

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NOTES

REPORTS

SYLLABUS

WRITERLY ADVICE
-Advice From Writers
-Dr. Seuss on Writing
-E.B. White on Writing
-Mencken on Writing
-Oates on Writing
-Orwell's Rules
-Overcoming Writer's Block
-Thurber on Writing
-Vonnegut on Writing
-What Is Style?
-Woolf on Journals
-Writers on Writing

27 August 2008
--Writing Project #1: Personal Essay. The basic guidelines for our first project appear at Essay Assignment: Personal Experience. See, in particular, the "topic suggestions" toward the end of the page: coming up with a good topic idea is the first step. Please check back here Thursday night (August 28) for a few more details regarding length and deadlines. On Thursday I'll also be posting reading assignments in our texts (in addition to the essays I handed out Monday) that should help to get you thinking. Stay tuned!

25 August 2008
--NOTES. Please read the postscript to this evening's class, posted at NOTES. Remember: September 1 is Labor Day, so our next class meeting will be on September 8. I'll post a brief preview of that class early next week.
--READING ASSIGNMENTS and WRITING PROJECT (all related to Project #1, a personal essay) will be posted by Wednesday evening (Aug. 27).
--EMAIL. I'll next be checking class email on Wednesday evening, Aug. 27.
--SYLLABUS. I've corrected the date for fall break on the syllabus: Oct. 13, not Oct. 11.

24 August 2008
--EMAIL. I caught up with class email late Sunday night--okay, early Monday morning. (I always take Saturdays off from the computer.) I'll see you all in class on Monday evening.

22 August 2008
--EMAIL ASSIGNMENT. Since Wednesday I've received emails from Roz, Anthony, and Tina. Thanks! I'll next be checking email on Sunday evening.
--NOTES: Please read the brief preview of our next class, posted at NOTES.

20 August 2008
--EMAIL ASSIGNMENT. Since yesterday I've received emails from Phillip, Tanya, Drayton, Jessi, and Debbie. Thank you for replying so promptly!
--READINGS. When I posted the reading assignments yesterday, I forgot to include the most important one: by Monday's class, please read the course syllabus and let me know if you have any questions.
--TEXTBOOKS. If you're still waiting for your textbooks to arrive, please get in touch with one of your class buddies (i.e., the people you exchanged phone numbers with on Monday evening) to see if you can borrow their books and/or make photocopies of the assigned readings before we meet on August 25.

19 August 2008
-READINGS. Reading assignments due on August 25 have been posted.
-WRITING PROJECTS. Three short writing assignments due on August 25 have been posted.
-EMAIL ASSIGNMENT. Don't forget to send me an email (see below). So far (it's Tuesday evening), I've heard from Jim, Bri, Alethea, Tawana, Angel, and Keith.
-NOTES. By this weekend, I'll post a brief preview of next Monday's class.


18/19 August 2008 (updated)
-EMAIL ASSIGNMENT: Please go to the WRITING PROJECTS page for guidelines on the brief email I've asked you to send me no later than this weekend. On Tuesday evening (Aug. 19), I'll post reading and (warm-up) writing assignments due for next Monday's class (August 25).
-NOTES: Please read the brief postscript to this evening's class, posted at NOTES.
-CLASS: Our first class meeting will be was at 6:00 this evening at the Brunswick Center, AB 113.