Links, Engl 3130 Advanced Composition, Summer 2012, O'Donnell, ETSU

Advanced Composition, Summer I, 2012

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last update: May 31, 2012

This page contains links to good writing that is freely available on the web, arranged here under various headings. Some--but not all--of these selections will be assigned during the semester. Click on "Calendar," above, for specific assignments and due dates.

I. Narrative / Personal Experience

- "The Healing Season." By Selena Roberts. Sports Illustrated , September 01, 2008. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1144559/index.htm

- "Girl Meets Bluegill: How I (Nearly) Taught My Daughter to Love Fishing." Bill Heavey. Field and Stream 2005. www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/columnists/article/0,13199,1086747,00.html

- "Journey Into Night: Business-class emotions [Reflections]." By David Sedaris. The New Yorker, December 17, 2007. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/17/071217fa_fact_sedaris. Click here for a cached version.
- "My bra’s too tight. Is that cellulite on my biceps? I might be having a heart attack. And why does everybody in here have a tattoo?” By Paige Williams. O, the Oprah Magazine. January 2010. www.paige-williams.com/stories/Bikram.pdf

- "Top Ten State Fair Joys: Be hypnotized! Gawk at cows! Indulge in fried Coca-Cola! By Garrison Keillor. National Geographic Magazine, July 2009. ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/state-fairs/keillor-text

II. Tech Writing ("How-to"-- Expository/ Explanatory)

- "36 Hours in Asheville, N. C." By Shaila Dewan. New York Times, Oct 21, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/travel/24hours.html
- "The Bacon Explosion" ["Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog."] Food article and recipe, NY Times online, January 27, 2009
- "Bacon: The Other White Heat." You know bacon is delicious, but did you know it contains enough energy to melt metal? By Theodore Gray. Popular Science, April 15, 2009. www.popsci.com/bacon

- "Beyond Cute Babies: How To Make Money On YouTube." By Tamara Keith. National Public Radio--All Things Considered. April 11, 2011. www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2011/04/11/135316299/beyond-cute-babies-how-to-make-money-on-youtube

- "Death of a Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Leveling of Appalachia." By Erik Reece. Harper's Magazine, April 2005: 41-60.

- "Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine." Saul Hansell. NY Times online, June 3, 2007. www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03google.html

- H. Melville, from Moby Dick, Chapter lxvii CUTTING IN; Chapter lxviii THE BLANKET

- "Learn More about Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Frequently Asked Questions." ilovemountains.org, Appalachian Voices, Boone NC. No date. www.ilovemountains.org/resources

- "Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?" By Susan Casey. Originally from Best Life Magazine, Feb 20, 2007. Online at Men's Health magazine web site, www.menshealth.com/best-life/water-pollution

III. Reviews and Criticism

- "Brain Candy: Is Pop Culture Dumbing Us Down or Smartening Us Up? [The Critics: Books]", by Malcom Gladwell, The New Yorker May 16, 2005 [1800 words].

- "The Courthouse Ring: Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism" [Department: "Politics and Prose"], by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, August 10, 2009. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/10/090810fa_fact_gladwell

- "The Charms of Wikipedia," by Nicholson Baker. New York Review of Books 55, 4 (March 20, 2008). Click here for a cached version.

- "Don and Betty’s Paradise Lost" [on the AMC TV series, Mad Men], by Bruce Handy, Vanity Fair, September 2009. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/09/mad-men200909

- "The Expanding Range of Mountaintop Removal Literature: Two New Books," by Kevin E. O'Donnell. Journal of Appalachian Studies 15, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 2009): p213-18.
- "Going Deep: How Gary Smith became America's best sportswriter," by Ben Yagoda, slate.com, Monday, June 30, 2003. http://www.slate.com/id/2085059/

- "Home Alone: It's all too easy to deride Martha Stewart, but the attacks on her often point up how much there is to admire" [book review]. Caitlin Flanagan. The Atlantic Monthly, September 2002. www.theatlantic.com/doc/200209/flanagan

- "How Close to Catastrophe?" by Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 18 · November 16, 2006. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19596

- "Hosed: Is there a quick fix for the climate? [review of Levitt and Dubner's SuperFreakonomics and Al Gore's Our Choice]." By Elizabeth Kolbert. The New Yorker, November 16, 2009. www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/16/091116crbo_books_kolbert

- "Lead Us Not Into Debt: Finance guru Dave Ramsey wins followers with a simple message: find God and lose your credit cards." By Megan Mcardle. Atlantic Magazine, December 2009. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/12/lead-us-not-into-debt/7751/

- "Like Boiling a Frog" [review of The Wikipedia Revolution, by Andrew Lih]." By David Runciman. London Review of Books, May 28, 2009 (Vol. 31 No. 10), pages 14-16. 5011 words. www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n10/david-runciman/like-boiling-a-frog
- "A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book? [Annals of Reading]." By Nicholson Baker. The New Yorker, August 3 2009. www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker

- "One Stop a 'Super' Chicken Choice," by Fred Sauceman. Kingsport Times-News, January 29, 2004.

- "Review of the must-read book: Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from smoke to global warming," by John Atcheson. Posted July 14, 2010, at the liberal climate change blog, climateprogress.org, edited by Joe Romm. climateprogress.org/2010/07/14/merchants-of-doubt-naomi-oreskes-review/

- "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute." By Tom Carson. GQ Blog, Oct 29, 2009. www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2009/10/theres-a-sucker-born-every-minute.html

IV. Academic Writing/ Writing from Sources

- Blogs:

- climatedepot.com - A blog that "aims to redefine global warming reporting."

- climateprogress.org - "A liberal blog on the science, solutions, and politics of climate change."

- "'Clean' Coal? Don't Try to Shovel That." The Washington Post, Sunday, March 2, 2008. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022903390_pf.html

- "You Can Call Him Al ... But Al Won't Call You Back." By Gene J. Koprowski. FOXNews.com February 26, 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/26/inconvenient-truth-for-al-gore/

- We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change [Op-Ed Contributor]. By Al Gore. New York Times, February 27, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html

- "Myths or Facts in Feminist Scholarship? An exchange between Nancy K.D. Lemon and Christina Hoff Sommers." The Chronicle of Higher Education online, August 10, 2009. chronicle.com/article/Domestic-Violence-a/47940/. (Click here for a cached version.)

- "Brain Candy: Is Pop Culture Dumbing Us Down or Smartening Us Up? [The Critics: Books]", by Malcom Gladwell, The New Yorker May 16, 2005 [1800 words]. (Click here for the cached version.)

- ''Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?: The creation of an anti-environmental myth.'' Aaron Swartz, ''Extra!'' [F.A.I.R.--Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting], September/October, 2007.

- "Sex and the Married Man: How Helen Gurley Brown inspired a generation of home-wreckers, and brought down John Edwards" [Book Review]. Caitlin Flanagan. The Atlantic Monthly, September 2009. www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/sex-married-man

- "There's a Skeleton In A Trainyard In East Tennessee," by Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder, Blue Ridge Country magazine's online edition, 2000.

V. Reportage

- "All You Can Eat: A journey through a seafood fantasy." By Jim Carrier. Orion Magazine, March/ April 2009. www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4395/

- "Bleak houses: Digging through the ruins of the mortgage crisis." By Paul Reyes. Harper's Magazine, October 2008. www.harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082199

- "Blowing away King Coal: Can a scrawny young wind-power activist topple the biggest, dirtiest industry in West Virginia?" Salon dot com, Thurs Jan 29, 2009. www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/01/29/mountaintop_removal/

- "A Boy's Life." By Hanna Rosin. The Atlantic Magazine. November, 2008. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/a-boy-apos-s-life/7059/

- "The Falling Man," by Tom Junod. Esquire Magazine, September 2003. http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN

- "Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus." By Sy Montgomery. Orion Magazine, November/December 2011. www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/

- "The Last Abortion Doctor." By John H. Richardson. Esquire Magazine, August 5, 2009. www.esquire.com/features/abortion-doctor-warren-hern-0909
- "Kanye West Has a Goblet: An all-access, totally non-exclusive interview with the would-be king of hip-hop." By Jonah Weiner. Slate Magazine, Aug. 25, 2010. www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2010/08/kanye_west_has_a_goblet.html

- "Marc Dreier’s Crime of Destiny." By Bryan Burrough. Vanity Fair, November 2009. www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/11/marc-dreier200911

- "The Rape of Appalachia [Department: Politics and Power]," by Michael Shnayerson. Vanity Fair, May 2006. www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/05/appalachia200605
- "Still Blue: Off the shores of Costa Rica, scientists study a stronghold of whales that once hovered near extinction." By Ken Brower. Photographs by Flip Nicklin. National Geographic, March 2009. ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/blue-whales/brower-text

VI. Columns and Commentary

- "A Nation of Scofflaws: The end of law in America." [Monthly Column: A Thousand Words about Our Culture.] By Stephen Marche. Esquire Magazine, May 30, 2012. www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/end-of-law-in-america-0612

- "Miss Manners And the Big C." By Christopher Hitchens. Vanity Fair, December 2010. www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/12/hitchens-201012

VII. On Various Topics Related to Advanced Composition

A. On Borrowing and Plagiarism
- Lawrence Lessig interview with Charlie Rose--on copyright, video remixes, etc. November 21, 2008. Video link to Charlie Rose website, plus commentary by Matt Rutherford, posted at TechCrunch, a weblog about new internet developments. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/21/larry-lessig-defends-copyright-loves-charlie-rose-remixes/

- Letter to Helen Keller from Mark Twain, St. Patrick's Day, 1903, on plagiarism. [Posted at an American Foundation for the Blind website.]

- "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age." By Trip Gabriel. New York Times online, Sunday, August 1, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/education/02cheat.html
- "What Helen Keller Saw" [review], by Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker June 16/23 2003. (This article explains the circumstances surrounding the Helen Keller plagiarism controversies.)

B. On Wikipedia

- "Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People." Naom Cohen. NY Times online, August 24 2009. www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html

- "The Charms of Wikipedia," by Nicholson Baker. New York Review of Books 55, 4 (March 20, 2008). Click here for a cached version.

- "Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries." Irish Times online, May 6 2009. www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html

C. On Writing
- "How News Happens--A Study of the News Ecosystem of One American City: Where does the news come from in today’s changing media?" Journalism.org: Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, January 11, 2010. www.journalism.org/analysis_report/how_news_happens

- "Plain English Is the Best Policy" [Op-Ed Contributor]. John Aloysius Cogan, Jr. NY Times online, August 19, 2009. www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/opinion/20cogan.html

- "Oaf of Office" [an MIT Linguist's critique of language pedants' "split-verb myth"], New York Times, Jan 22, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/opinion/22pinker.html

- "Plain English Is the Best Policy" [Op-Ed Contributor]. John Aloysius Cogan, Jr. NY Times online, August 19, 2009. www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/opinion/20cogan.html

- "Rules No-one Teaches But Everyone Learns," by Ruth Walker, posted on the "Verbal Energy" blog at the Christian Science Monitor online, May 17, 2007. 700 words.

- Style guidelines from "Wikipedia: Manual of Style":
    Neutral Point of View
    Avoid "Weasel Words"
    Avoid "Peacock Terms"
    Captions
- Handouts from The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
     http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html

- The Writing Center Guide to Writing Groups: Resources," materials posted by the Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill:

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/WritingGroups/index.html
- Using Headings in APA Style, at Purdue University online writing lab, accessed March 2009

- Wikipedia "Outline" article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_(summary)

- Headings: Six Levels Deep, a page explaining how levels of headings are established in html, from Maricopa Community College, accessed March 2009