Those registering for Summer 2007, B Session, English 302BN1 (TR 4:30-7:10 pm, 302BN2 TR 7:20-10:00 pm), and next Fall 2007, English 302N07 (Tues/Thurs, 10:45-11:30 am), 302N10 (Tues/Thurs, 3-4:15 pm), and 302N14 (Thurs, 4:30-7:10 pm) may want to have an idea of what we will read and watch, and what we will write about. I provide the following for anyone who registers for these sections for these coming terms and wants to read ahead. The lists do not contain all the online materials we will use.

Summer 2007

Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Technology

• B session: English 302BN1 (Tues/Thurs, 4:30-7:10 pm, Robinson A210).
• B session: Engilsh 302BN2 (Tues/Thurs, 7:20-10:00 pm,Robinson A210).

Required Books and Possible Online Reading

• Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the art of writing. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. Second edition. ISBN 0-13-025713-3.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! NY: Norton, 1997. ISBN 0-393-31604-1.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. "What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?" NY: Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32092-8.
• Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time. NY: Penguin, 1995. ISBN 0140258795
• LeCarre, John. The Constant Gardener. Pocket Star (July 26, 2005) or Scribner's. ISBN 141653900 or 034073339X (but any edition will do).

  Marcia Angell, "The Body Hunters", New York Review of Books, 52:15, October 16, 2005. A review of book and film and researched essay on politics and the pharmaceutical industry.
  Marcia Angell, "Your Dangerous Drugstore", New York Review of Books, 53:10 (June 8, 2006).

• Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. New York: Picador, 2002. ISBN 0312421702

  Atul Gawande, The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?", The New Yorker, December 6, 2004.
  Atul Gawande, "Piecework: Medicine's Money Problem", The New Yorker, April 4, 2005.
  Atul Gawande, "The Score: How childbirth went industrial", The New Yorker, October 9, 2006, 59-67.
  Atul Gawande, "The Way We Age Now", The New Yorker, April 30, 2007

• Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. ISBN 0- 571- 19877-5.

Optional Book

• Caine, Jeffrey. The Constant Gardener: The Shooting Script. NY: Newmarket Press, 2006. ISBN 155704712X.

Possible Films

• Ralph Leighton's The Last Journey of a Genius. A BBC/NOVA film, 54 minutes, January 1989. This is a film portrait biography of Richard Feynman.
• Peter Jones and David R. Axelrod's Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude. A 1998 NOVA film, 60 minutes. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, with Patrick Malahide as John Harrison.
• Longitude, adapted from Dava Sobel's book by Sobel and Charles Sturridge, who also directed. A 2000 A&E film. 2 parts of 250 minutes altogether. Jeremy Irons as Rupert Gould, Michael Gambon as John Harrison, Gemma Jones as Elizabeth Harrison, Nigel Davenport as Sir Charles Pelham, Liam Jennings as Young William Harrison and Ian Hart as William Harrison as an adult, Anna Chancellor as Muriel Gould, John Wood as Sir Edmund Halley, and Bill Nighy as Lord Sandwich.
• The Constant Gardener, from screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, directed by Fernando Meirelles, produced by Scion and UK Films, starring Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle, Hubert Kound as Arnold Bluhm, Danny Huston as Sandy Woodrow, Bill Nighy as Sir Bernard Pellegrin 129 minutes.
• Wit, HBO film, made for TV, from a screenplay by Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, produced by Simon Bosanquet, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson as Vivan Bearing, Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Kelekian, Eileen Atkins as E.M. Ashford, Audra McDonald as Susie Monahan, Jonathan M. Woodward as Jason Posner, Harold Pinter as Vivian's Father, and Rebecca Laurie as Vivian aged 5. 98 minutes.

Fall 2007

Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Technology

• English 302N07 (Tues/Thurs, 10:45-11:30 am)
• English 302N10 (Tues/Thurs, 3:00-4:15 pm)
• English 302N14 (Thurs, 4:30-7:10 pm)

Required Books and Possible Online Reading

• Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the art of writing. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. Second edition. ISBN 0-13-025713-3.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! NY: Norton, 1997. ISBN 0-393-31604-1.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. "What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?" NY: Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32092-8.
• Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time. NY: Penguin, 1995. ISBN 0140258795
• Sobel, Dava. The Planets. New York: Penguin, 2007. ISBN 01420011163.
• LeCarre, John. The Constant Gardener. The trade paperback is preferred: ISBN 13-9780743287203 or 10-0743287207. But any edition will do.

  Marcia Angell, "The Body Hunters", New York Review of Books, 52:15, October 16, 2005. A review of book and film and researched essay on politics and the pharmaceutical industry.
  Marcia Angell, "Your Dangerous Drugstore", New York Review of Books, 53:10 (June 8, 2006).

• Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. New York: Picador, 2002. ISBN 0312421702

  Atul Gawande, The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?", The New Yorker, December 6, 2004.
  Atul Gawande, "Piecework: Medicine's Money Problem", The New Yorker, April 4, 2005.
  Atul Gawande, "The Score: How childbirth went industrial", The New Yorker, October 9, 2006, 59-67.
  Atul Gawande, "The Way We Age Now", The New Yorker, April 30, 2007

• Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. ISBN 0- 571- 19877-5.

Optional Book

• Caine, Jeffrey. The Constant Gardener: The Shooting Script. NY: Newmarket Press, 2006. ISBN 155704712X.

Possible Films

• Ralph Leighton's The Last Journey of a Genius. A BBC/NOVA film, 54 minutes, January 1989. This is a film portrait biography of Richard Feynman.
• Peter Jones and David R. Axelrod's Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude. A 1998 NOVA film, 60 minutes. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, with Patrick Malahide as John Harrison.
• Longitude, adapted from Dava Sobel's book by Sobel and Charles Sturridge, who also directed. A 2000 A&E film. 2 parts of 250 minutes altogether. Jeremy Irons as Rupert Gould, Michael Gambon as John Harrison, Gemma Jones as Elizabeth Harrison, Nigel Davenport as Sir Charles Pelham, Liam Jennings as Young William Harrison and Ian Hart as William Harrison as an adult, Anna Chancellor as Muriel Gould, John Wood as Sir Edmund Halley, and Bill Nighy as Lord Sandwich.
• Christopher Hale's In Search of the First Language. A 1997 Horizon, WGBH, BBC-TV film. Narrated Peter Thomas. Editors include Adam de Van, Jana Bennet. 60 minutes.
• The Constant Gardener, from screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, directed by Fernando Meirelles, produced by Scion and UK Films, starring Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle, Hubert Kound as Arnold Bluhm, Danny Huston as Sandy Woodrow, Bill Nighy as Sir Bernard Pellegrin 129 minutes.
• Wit, HBO film, made for TV, from a screenplay by Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, produced by Simon Bosanquet, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson as Vivan Bearing, Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Kelekian, Eileen Atkins as E.M. Ashford, Audra McDonald as Susie Monahan, Jonathan M. Woodward as Jason Posner, Harold Pinter as Vivian's Father, and Rebecca Laurie as Vivian aged 5. 98 minutes.