Supplementary Readings
| Title | File | Comments & Description |
| Jean Anyon, "From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work" | anyon.pdf | Shibboleths in education |
| Wendell Berry, "Economy and Pleasure" | berry.pdf | Critique of capitalism and competition |
| Cornell West, "Introduction to Race Matters" | west.pdf | Race |
| William Deresiewicz, "The Dispossed" | Deresiewicz.pdf | Class difference |
| Sydney Shanberg, "Six Cents an Hour" | sixcents.pdf | Complicates child labor |
| John Milton, "Areopagitica" (selections) | areopagitica.htm | My own selections of Areopagitica |
Grammar & Style
| Title | File | Comments & Description |
| Top 25 Errors | 25errors.htm | List of the top 25 errors in student writing |
| Appositives | Appositives.htm | Introduction of appositives and exercises in sentence combining |
| How to Start an Essay | anecdote.htm | Starting essays by evaluating and consciously crafting anecdotes |
| Gerunds | gerunds.htm | Gerund phrases (including exercises). More elaboration needed on this handout |
| Clear writing & the consequences of language | orwell.htm | Specific for George Orwell, but also has good exercises on language and writing clearly |
| The Dangers of Addressing the Second Person "You" | secondperson.htm | Second person information |
| Writing about Film | thoreau.htm | Information on writing critically concerning film |
Lecture Information
| Title | File | Comments & Description |
| Evaluating Advertising Campaigns | adslecture.htm | Introduces ways of thinking about advertising campaigns. Works with Geico, SUVs, Beer, and Holiday Inn ads |
| Brainstorming | brainstorming.htm | "Write to your Audience," "Tell all the Truth..." and introduces Penguin ideas on brainstorming |
| Revision | revising2.htm | My own process of revising an essay on the pharmaceutical industry |
| Rhetorical Triangle | triangle.htm | Rhetorical triangle information and exercises |
| Rhetoric | rhetoric.htm | Includes a "toolbox" of information. Doesn't include the rhetorical triangle |
Research Information (Including Plaigairism)
| Title | File | Comments & Description |
| Further Strategies of Including Quotation | blockquote.htm | Block quotations (more advanced points and exercises. The examples work with Elisha's "God is in the Retails," so this must be updated and replaced with "They Say, I Say" style material (Use earlier than research unit?) |
| Citing (and the answers) | citing.htm
roberts.htm |
A basic exercise on citing. Students rank order how well quotations of Paul Craig Roberts are written |
| Plagiarism | Plagiarism.htm | Basics of plagiarism. Supplement with the Penguin introduction |
| Research Strategies | research2006.htm | Comprehensive research strategies. Always check before delivering this lecture |
Miscellaneous Handouts