readings for winter quarter

week 1
essay #1: 10%
revision: 5%
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/george-orwells-5-rules-for-effective-writing/
http://www.mamohanraj.com/Writing/twain.html
http://www.kabedford.com/archives/000013.html
Which of the writing "rules" from these three sources apply to your chosen field?
Overall, how is writing used in your major field(either as a scholar or in the occuption itself[meaning, for instance, as a nursing student or as a nurse])?

week 2...restaurant review
week 3
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/8654/

week 4
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/

week 5
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30feminism.html?pagewanted=all

week 6
http://users.drew.edu/~sjamieso/Synthesis.htm
Write a synthesis of the three articles from the previous weeks.

face to face meeting around here?

week 7
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

week 8 and 9   tipping point

week ten...final reflections