F, 1/9: Introduction

M, 1/12: What is good writing? Better–how do we get there?
    Read Making Your Case, chapter 1
W, 1/14: Intro to the Library and Library Research
    Discussion of plagiarism and turnitin.com

Saul Bellow
F, 1/16: Saul Bellow, Seize the Day
    **Brief Writing Due (assignment on next page)

M, 1/19: No Classes: Martin Luther King’s Birthday
W, 1/21: STD
F, 1/23: STD

M, 1/26: STD
W, 1/28: STD
F, 1/30: STD

M, 2/2: STD
W, 2/4: Film: Seize the Day
F, 2/6: Film: Seize the Day

M, 2/9: Grammar Review and Conventions of Essay Writing
    Read Making Your Case, chapter 3

Ann Beattie (all stories in The Burning House)
W, 2/11: "Learning to Fall"
    **Essay One Due

Write a brief essay of no fewer than 2 full pages. Your work should be typed, double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, with one inch margins. This is due Friday, January 16.

A current American phenomenon is the sentiment that you’re nobody unless you’re on television. We witnessed the explosion of this idea in the late 1980s and 1990s with shows such as Jenny Jones and Jerry Springer. These have now morphed into so-called "reality shows." Given the opportunity, would you appear on a "reality television show"? If so, why? And if not, why not? Try to avoid money as the motivating factor.