Writing 1E: Approaches to University Writing for Engineers
Readings
Please print all readings and bring to class. Weekly readings below indicate when you should have the reading done.
Week 1
Articles for Paper #1 (summary):
Joel Achenbach. "The Age of Disbelief," National Geographic. March 2015. pp. 30–47.
"English is not normal," John McWhorter, Aeon.com, 2019.
"The Rise of 'Logical Punctuation'." Ben Yagoda. Slate.com. May 12, 2011.
Starting Lines: An Anthology of Student Writing, 18th Ed. | 2019, edited by Ilene Miele and Christopher Dean. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 2019.
Browse "Interpreting Experience" articles, pp. 4–23. Select any two (2) to discuss and write about in class.
Weeks 2–3
"How to write the perfect sentence." Joe Moran. The Guardian. (2018 September 21)
"Logical Fallacies Reference Guide." N.D. Bradley & C. Dean. in Terra Incognita. (2012)
"Out of Touch: E-Reading isn't reading." Andrew Piper. Slate.com (2012 November 15)
"You Won't Finish This Article." Farhad Manjoo. Slate.com. (2016 June 06)
Starting Lines: An Anthology of Student Writing, 18th Ed. | 2019, edited by Ilene Miele and Christopher Dean. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 2019.
Browse "Responding to Texts" articles, pp. 26–44. Select any two (2) to discuss and write about in class.
Week 4
Starting Lines: An Anthology of Student Writing, 17th Ed., edited by Ilene Miele and Christopher Dean. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 201.
Browse "Posing Problems / Taking Positions" articles, pp. 45–72. Select any two (2) to discuss and write about in class.
Week 5
Articles for Paper #2 (critique):
"Can language slow down time?" James Harbeck. 2018 Aug. 03. BBC online.
"Hacking the Attention Economy." Danah Boyd. 2018 Jan. 05. Data & Society.
"Why Facts Don't Change Our Mind." Elizabeth Kolbert. 2017 Feb. 27. The New Yorker.
Starting Lines: An Anthology of Student Writing, 18th Ed. | 2019, edited by Ilene Miele and Christopher Dean. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 2019.
Browse "Reflecting on Places and Things" articles, pp. 73–97. Select any two (2) to discuss and write about in class.
Week 6
Starting Lines: An Anthology of Student Writing, 18th Ed. | 2019, edited by Ilene Miele and Christopher Dean. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 2019.
Preview articles intended for Writing 2, pp. 109–208. We will discuss the transition from Writing 1 to Writing 2.
Readings for Paper #3
NOTE: This article is published by the organization Speaking of Research, which actively champions the use of animals in experimental research; they rhetorically rebutt the cause of groups such as PETA.
"Here Come the Fake Videos, Too." Kevin Roose, The New York Times. 2018 March 04.
NOTE: The use of David Pierce's article should be more focused on what it suggests about the changing technological trends of computing in everyday life, not the commercial brand rivalry of one product or device versus another, etc.