MAY 5, 1999
ENGLISH 791R , The New Yorker |
Spring 1999
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GOINGS ON ABOUT THE COURSE
Spacetime |
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Hagey Hall 247, x5362 |
Participation, twenty percent. |
Irons in the fire, John McPhee |
No late assignments will be accepted, no extensions will be granted, and no incompletes will be awarded, without very strong reasons. |
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May | Hello, good to meet you. | ||
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May | McPhee & The New Yorker | McPhee, Irons | |
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May | The Current Cinema | Book Review: Irons | |
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May | The Theatre | Movie Review | New Yorker 24/5/99 |
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June | Capsules | Drama Review | New Yorker 1/6/99 |
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June | Guest: Malcolm Gladwell | Capsule Reviews: Three Movies | New Yorker 7/6/99 |
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June | Talk of the Town | Capsule Reviews: Three Cultural Events | New Yorker 14/6/99 |
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June | Profile | Talk of the Town | New Yorker 21/6/99 |
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June | Annals of X | Profile | New Yorker 28/6/99 |
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July | Feature | Annals of X | New Yorker 5/7/99 |
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July | Shouts and Murmurs | Feature Outline | New Yorker 12/7/99 |
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July | Features redux | Shouts and Murmurs | New Yorker 19/7/99 |
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July | So long and thanks for all the fish | New Yorker 26/7/99 |
This is a component of the course I take very seriously, and you should enroll in this course only if you are prepared to contribute regularly to class discussions and to engage the job of peer reviewing very thoughtfully. Each of your assignments will be edited by a class member, and each week you will edit another class member's assignment. Notice that this is course participation, not simply class participation--that is, your success here will depend not just on how you perform during class time, but also on how fully you undertake the out-of-class peer review sessions.
Half of your participation
mark will come from my assessment of your classroom contributions, half
will come from your peers' assessments of how much help you've been to
them in their writing. Everybody will submit a memo to me evaluating all
of their peer reviewers; anybody who fails to submit such a memo will get
zero for course participation. I'm not kidding.
There will be ten writing assignments,
which I regard as a simple and straightforward obligation. Write them and
make the deadlines, and you'll get the full twenty percent here; miss one
deadline, and you'll get fifteen percent; miss two deadlines and you'll
get zero percent. I'm not kidding.
Seminar Presentation
We will be analyzing the magazine
section by section in seminar presentations. These may be individual or
group assignments, depending on class numbers. The idea is
for each of the discussion topics
to be student led, but again this depends on class numbers.
The Feature
You will be evaluated on choice of topic, depth of analysis, and elegance of construction.