Engl
1010 Critical Reading and Expository Writing, sec 5, O'Donnell, Spring 2020
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Readings
last update: February 3, 2020
This
page pulls together in one list all the online readings we'll be doing this
semester. For reading assignment due dates, see the course calendar.
I. Open-Access
Textbook Chapters
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You,
Writing! A Guide to College Composition. By Alexandra Glynn, Kelli
Hallsten Erickson, and Amy Jo Swing. Text 2.0: 24 April 2019. Creative Commons
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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"How
to Read Like a Writer." By Mike Bunn. A chapter in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume
2, a peer-reviewed open textbook series for the writing classroom. 2011.
II. Student
essays, organized by assignment/ genre
A.
Narrative based on first-hand experience
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"An
Adventure I Will Never Forget: Grandfather Mountain." By Katie Chafin.
November 2016.
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"Histoplasmosis
Syndrome: My Experience with an Ocular Injection." By Kelsey Grubb.
January 2016.
- "Dancing
with the Dead: Recalling My Granddaddy, A Cemetery Caretaker in Webb,
Mississippi." By Jaden Erbs. December 2012.
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"Is
It Too Late to Start Drinking? Dealing with My Parents’ Divorce." By
A. N. Barnes. November 2017.
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"Walking
the Catacombs: Exploring Edinburgh's Underbelly--How One Skeptic Came to
Believe in Ghosts." By Brooke Bowers. December 2013.
B.
How-to (tech writing)
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"Cooking
Like Mamaw: A Guide to Cooking Biscuits and Gravy; Boston Roast with Brown
Gravy; and Blackberry Cobbler." By Kayla Welden. December 2017.
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"A
Five-Day Guide to Climbing in the High Country of North Carolina." By
Andrew Miller. April 2017.
- "How
to Pick Your Base Makeup Products: A guide to pick the right base makeup
products for your skin type." By Hoang K Nguyen. November 2019.
C.
Review/ criticism
- "I’ve
Waited a Long Time for This: A Review of a Marilyn Manson Concert (October
23, 2018 at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium)." By Cheri Barnes. December
2018.
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"Dawes’
Most Dawes Record Yet: A Review of All
Your Favorite Bands." By Kayla Hensley. April 2016.
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"Eastwood's
Sully: Investigations of a Pilot's
Forced River Landing." By Terri Cornett. April 2017.
- "The
Power in Emilio Villalba’s Paintings." By Sandra Kisluk. November
2019.
D.
Op-ed/ viewpoint
- "Why
LeBron James is Better Than Michael Jordan: The Numbers Are Not the Whole Story."
By Owen Kovacs. November 2019.
III. Professional
essays, available for free on line, organized by assignment/ genre
A.
Narrative based on first-hand experience
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"Active
Shooter: A trip to the firing range in a time of gun violence." By
David Sedaris. The New Yorker, July 9
& 16, 2018.
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"Girl
Meets Bluegill: How I (nearly) taught my daughter to love fishing." By
Bill Heavey. Field and Stream, August
1, 2005.
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"How
it Feels." By Jenny Zhang. Poetry
Magazine, July/ August 2015.
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"The Woman
on the Photograph." By Rebecca Skloot. Prologue to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Broadway Books, 2011.
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"Murder
on the Appalachian Trail: Twenty-five years ago, a grisly double homicide
on America’s most famous hiking route shocked the nation and forever changed
our ideas about crime, violence, and safety in the outdoors. By Earl Swift. Outside Magazine, September 2, 2015.
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"My
Family’s Slave: She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my
siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who
she was." By Alex Tizon. The
Atlantic Monthly, June 2017.
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"Ticket
to the Fair." By David Foster Wallace. Harper's Magazine, July 1994.
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"Total
Eclipse." By Annie Dillard. Teaching
a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters. 1982.
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"Under
the Influence: Paying the price of my father's booze." By Scott
Russell Sanders. Harper's Magazine,
November 1989, p68-75.
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"Why
Do Humans Talk to Animals If They Can’t Understand? The tendency to
converse with dogs, cats, and hamsters ultimately says more about people than
it does about their pets." By Arianna Rebolini. The Atlantic Monthly, August 18, 2017.
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"Working
at Wendy's." By Joey Franklin. Twentysomething
Essays by Twentysomething Writers. Random House, 2006.
B.
How-to (tech writing)
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"22
lessons from Stephen King on how to be a great writer." Business Insider, August 11, 2015.
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"36
Hours in Asheville, N. C." By Shaila Dewan. The New York Times online, Oct 13, 2016.
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"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.
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"How
to Pack a Suitcase." By Shivani Vora and Michelle Higgins. The New York Times online, no date.
Accessed August 2019.
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"How to Make LEGO
Gummy Candy!" The King of Random
YouTube channel. Posted May 2015. 37 million views as of January 2020. Running
time--6:18.
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"How to Do What You Love."
By Paul Graham. January 2006.
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"Some
Practical Thoughts on Suicide." By Tim Ferris. Blog, May 6, 2015.
C.
Review/ criticism
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"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.
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"Five
Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War." By Ta-Nehisi
Coates. Atlantic Magazine, November
1, 2017. (Click here
for a cached version.)
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"How
'When They See Us' and 'Chernobyl' Make Us Look: These new true-story
series manage to make depressing, traumatic material not merely watchable but
mesmerizing." By Emily Nusbaum. The
New Yorker, June 17, 2019. (Click here
for a cached version.)
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"Cancel
All Your Weekend Plans and Binge-Watch Aziz Ansari’s Unbelievably Excellent
Netflix Series ‘Master of None’." By Pilot Viruet. Flavorwire, November 6, 2015.
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"‘Taylor
Swift: Miss Americana’ Review: A Star, Scathingly Alone--Self-critical,
grown up and ready, perhaps, to deliver a message beyond the music." By
Wesley Morris. The New York Times,
January 30, 2020. (Click here
for a cached version.)
D.
Op-ed/ viewpoint
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"An
Animal’s Place." By Michael Pollan. The New York Times Magazine, November 10, 2002.
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"The
Enduring Power of Print for Learning in a Digital World." By Patricia
A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer Trakhman. The
Conversation, October 3, 2017.
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"Consider
the Lobster: For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing
crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that
the celebration involves a whole lot more." By David Foster Wallace. Gourmet Magazine, August 2004. Pages
50-64.
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"Get
a Dog, Get a Knife, But Get Rid of Guns." By Molly Ivins. Nothin' But Good Times Ahead: Essays.
Random House, 1993.
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"The Riddle of the
Gun." By Sam Harris. January 2, 2013.
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"Sam
Harris Neglects The Most Important Evidence About Guns." By Sean
Faircloth. Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, January 4, 2013.
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"Black
Exhaustion." By Pilot Viruet. Matter
[the original flagship publication of Medium],
April 28, 2015.
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"Putting
Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer: By raising levels of the
stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our
long-term health." By Catherine Price. The
New York Times, April 24, 2019.
E.
Essays that are hard to categorize
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"The Incredible True
Story of the Henrietta C.: From miles out in the storm-ravaged Chesapeake
Bay, the Tangier Island crab boat radioed a mayday, then fell silent." By
Earl Swift. Outside Magazine, June
20, 2018.
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"The
Insect Apocalypse Is Here: What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?"
By Brooke Jarvis. The New York Times
Magazine, November 27, 2018. 7,500 words.
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"The
Stranger in the Shelter: Told here in full for the first time, this is the horrifying
story of the first murder on the Appalachian Trail, the kidnapping that
followed, and how one woman learned to survive." By Earl Swift. Outside Magazine, November 5, 2018.
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"An
Unbelievable Story of Rape: An 18-year-old said she was attacked at
knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins."
By T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong. Co-published by ProPublica and the Marshall Project, December 16, 2015.
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"Unfriendly
Climate." By Sonia Smith. Texas
Monthly, May 2016.
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"The
Improvisational Oncologist: In an era of rapidly proliferating, precisely
targeted treatments, every cancer case has to be played by ear." By
Siddhartha Mukherjee. New York Times
Magazine, May 12, 2016.
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"The
Teen Whisperer [Profile]: How the author of 'The Fault in Our Stars' built
an ardent army of fans." By Margaret Talbot. The New Yorker, June 2, 2014. (Click here
for a cached version.)
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"Most
dominant athlete of 2018: Simone Biles--This was the year that the greatest
gymnast of all time showed that not a damn thing will ever stand in her
way." By Danyel Smith. ESPN The
Magazine [RIP!], December 11, 2018.
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"The
Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal
Northwest. The question is when." By Kathryn Schulz. The New Yorker, July 13, 2015.
- "Can
the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Be Found in Cuba? A birder, ornithologist,
writer, and photographer set off on an extreme adventure through the muck and
memories of eastern Cuba." [Republished under the title, "Delusion is
the Thing with Feathers."] By Mac McClelland. Audubon Magazine,
May-June 2016.
- "Annotation
Tuesday! Mac McClelland and 'Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers': The
writer talks about her hilariously awful trip with extreme birders for Audubon,
and her bold choice of having a paragraph consisting of a single exclamation
point." By Katia Savchuk. Nieman Storyboard (a publication of
the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard), June 13, 2017.