The Language of Composition
Must-reads
Chap.
Gender
Tamara
Ryan
Marie
Language
Hannah
Sami
Michaela
Sci. & Tech.
Caitlin
Julian
Brydie
Kelly
Emily
Sam
Robyn
p. 347
Justin
Jackie
Jessie
Bella
p. 507
Daniel
Tanner
T.J.
1.
~1
dialectical
journal
entry per
full page of
text; no
more than
6 entries
total
Stephen J.
Gould
Women’s
Brains =
9 pages
George Orwell
Politics and
Language
=10.5
Loren Eiseley
The Bird and
the Machine
=6.5
2.
Virginia
Woolf
Professions
=4
Thiong’o
“Decolonizing
the Mind”
=7.5
Thomas
Huxley - Sci.
Investigation=
5
Mark Twain
“Corn-pone
Opinions”
=4
Emerson,
from “Nature”
=7
3. “
Ehrlich
“About
Men”
=2
Theroux,
“Being a
Man”
2.5
Berkowitz
“Studying
Islam”
=2
Hayakawa,
“English the
Official
Language”
=5
Pinker “The
Blank Slate”
= 8.5
Brent
Staples
“Godzilla”
=2
Deloria Jr.,
“We Talk
You Listen”
=6.5
Chief Seattle
=1
Sven Birkerts
“Into the
Electronic
Millennium”
=7.25
Aldiss, “SuperToys” (fiction)
6.25
Danyel
Smith,
“Dreaming
America”
=1.5
McCloud
(graphic
essay)
=13
Joyce Carol
Oates
=6.25
Conv.
Duncan “DNA
as Destiny”
=7.25
Conv.
Stephen
Johnson
“TV Makes
Goklany,
Climate
Change
3.5
4. “
5. “
Stephen
Lewis
=5
6. “
Tannen,
“No
Unmarked
Woman”
=4
Conv.
7. “
Conv.
All 5 pieces
Nunberg “How
Much
p. 599
Ursula
Franklin
4.25
Pop
Culture
Paul
Talia
Lauren
Nature
Megan
Claire
Lizzie
Alexa
Lauren
Lena
Val
Alyssa
p. 707
David
Denby
Teen
Movies =
10
Louis
Olivia
Pupo
p. 797
Rachel
Carson
Silent Spring
= 12
Wendell
Berry
=9
Conversation
Bill McKibben
= 4.5
The Language of Composition
Must-reads
{26} + {?}
*fewer
pages but
Gender
presents
first
Some big
names
Wallop….” up
to pg. 589
= 9 pgs
{34} + {?}
{45}
Neil Postman
You
Smarter”
=10
{47*} *13
pages are
comic
strips
Andy
Warhol
{43.5}