Fall 2010

Syllabuses

Reading and Writing about Texts: Exploring the Gothic:
English 201.26 and 28 (Fri, 7:30-10:10 am, 4:30-710 pm, East Building 121)

Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Applied Technology:
English 302N16 (Friday, 10:30 am to 1:15 pm, Robinson A109)

Short Talk Schedules

Short Talks for English 201.26 and 28: Exploring the Gothic

Short Talks for English 302N16: Advanced Composition in the Natural Sciences and Technology

Bibliography and Notes Formats for All Students

• MLA Style (Modern Language Association): a list of entries with explanations (from Writers' Workshop).
• CBE Style (Council of Biology Editors): Chapter 6 of The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.
• APA Style (American Psychological Association): the Fifth Edition of the APA Publication Manual (from Writers' Workshop).

For English 201.26 and 28

The Format Students Must Follow to Write Essay-Journal Entries

The Essay-Journal Entry

Student Models for English 201.26 and 28

For Short Talk
• One Student Talk on Chretien de Troyes's Erec and Enide
• On Religion, Sex, and Suicide in J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country
• Two Short Talks on Last Orders, Novel and Film: "Shifting Points of View versus Ensemble Cast and Flashbacks"
Student Models for Essay-Journal Entries:
• Jennifer Klopsis, "The Class System in the Two Novels"
  
• Mariam Popal's A comparison of Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
  
• Jill De Witt's "Gothic Landscape in Trollope's An Eye for an Eye"
  
• Amy Johnson'sIllusions and Ghosts in three Ghost Stories
  
Student Models for Comparisons of Novel and Films:
• Marco Werlang's "Opening Scenes in A Month in the Country"
  
• Ashley Morgan's The Namesake: Father and Son
• Ashley Morgan's The Namesake: on the landscape, background and visual images in the movie; on the use of scenes in the novel
• Adam Gruendl's Alfred Shaughnessy, Simon Langton and June Wyndham-Davies's "Afterwards" (the series Shades of Darkness, adapted from Edith Wharton's ghost story
• Laura Rogers's Daisy Miller: More than a Faithful Film
• Lane Jones's Daisy Miller: Suggestive Uses of Landscape in the Film.
• Virginia Emery's "What Human Beings Treasure Most, from Last Orders, book and film
  
• Bart Hart's Social Stratification and Class Consciousness in 19th Century England: Stephen Frears's Mary Reilly

Online Materials for English 201.26 and 28:

• Our short story texts:
  • Wharton, Edith. Online etext of "Afterward", also at "Afterward" (read aloud) and "Mr Jones".
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis. Online text of "Olalla".
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan. Online text of "The Adventure of Abbey Grange" and "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"
  • Dickens, Charles. Online text of "The Signalman"
• For Edith Wharton's "Afterward"
  • Karen Jacobsen's Economic hauntings: wealth and class in Edith Wharton's ghost stories", College Literature, 35 (2008):100-28.
• For Susan Hill's Woman in Black
  • Val Scullion, "Susan Hill's The Woman in Black: Gothic Horror for the 1980s," Women: a cultural review, 14:3 (2003):302-3.
• For Valerie Martin and Mary Reilly
  • Brainard Dulcy's "Valerie Martin; after years when her career seemed stalled, her new novel has excited wide interest", Publishers Weekly, 237:6 (1990):41-2.
• For Suzy McKee Charnas's Vampire Tapestry
  • Kathy Davis's 'Beauty in the Beast: The 'Feminization' of Weyland in The Vampire Tapestry", Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 43:1 (2002 Spring), pp. 62-79.
  • Vrydolak's review of Vampire Tapestry, BC [Blogs critics] Books, January 7, 2009
  • Linda Suzane's Interview with Suzy McKee Charnas, May 27, 2005
• For Ian McEwan's Atonement
  • Brian Finney's "Briony's stand against Oblivion" in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Journal of Modern Literature, 27:3 (2004 Winter), pp. 68-82.
  • Hermione Lee's review of Atonement, "If your memories serve you well ...", The Spectator, 23 September 2001
• For Kate Summerscale and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher:
  • Janice M. Allen's review, "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House," Clues, 27:1 (2009):107-109.
  • Emily Wilkinson's "A Murder Most Mysterious", Virginia Quarterly Review: a national journal of literature and discussion, 85:1 (2009):231-40.
• For the movies we see Afterward, The Woman in Black, Mary Reilly, The Turn of the Screw, The Adventure at Abbey Grange, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, Northanger Abbey, The Signalman, Atonement

For English 302N15

For Use in Class

Learning to Write an Abstract for 302BN2

• Instructions
  
• Practice I
  
• Practice II

Student Models

• On "Richard Feynman's Definition of a Good Experiment"
• "Time and Space in the 17th Century:" on Dava Sobel's Longitude

• Proposal for Essay #1 on a musical instrument
• Proposal for Essay #2 memories of gardening and weeding
• Proposal for Essay #3 on financial models for hospitals

• "The Great American Scream Machine" and "The Golden Gate Bridge"
  
• The Moving Scala"
• "The Eiffel Tower"
• "A Tool of Instant Artwork"
  
• "From Dictaphone to Disc: The Beginnings of the In-Home Concert"
  

• "The Scientific Method: A Review of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle and Mark Ridley's Darwin Reader"
  
• "Feynman's Assessment of the Bureacratic Culture at NASA"
  
• "Living Life to the Fullest"
• "A Half Composed Puzzle"
  
• "From One Country to Another"
  
• "Understanding Human History"
  
• "The Difficult Profession of Medicine"
  
• "Complicated Medicine"
  
• "The Modern Realities of Health Care"
  

• "Some Observations on the Orangutans," "The White-Tailed Deer"
  
• "The Hard Working Life of Cows: Making Diary Farms Make Money"
  
• "Night Life"
  
• "Observation of Colorful Trees in Autumn"
• "Still a Mystery: Ball Lightning"
  
• "The California Sea- Lion"
  
• "Deserts, Wind and Water"
  

• "Improving Life with Arthritis"
  
• The Uses of Leeches in Modern Medicine
  
• "Patients, not Prisoners: A Review of the Mentally Ill Prisoner in the US"
• "The Promise of Regenerative Stem Cell Research"
  
• "Organ Trafficking"
  
• Mutilating Women for Life"
  
• "The Real Aftereffects of Abortion"
• "Caesarean Childbirth: The Real Cons as well as Pros"
  

• Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener: "A brutally educational and moving story".
• Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener: "A visually stunning and excellent movie"
• John LeCarre's novel, The Constant Gardener compared with Meirelles, Simon-Channing and Caine's film, The Constant Gardener: "The presentation of the characters"
  
• John LeCarre's novel, The Constant Gardener compared with Meirelles, Simon-Channing and Caine's film, The Constant Gardener: "Africa"
  
• Mike Nichols' Wit: "On the borders of decency"
• Mike Nicols' Wit: "A poignant film"
• Raines's The Doctor: "A doctor who practices bad medicine"

Professional Online Materials: Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Applied Technology

• For Richard Feynman
  • A short list of books by and on Richard Feynman
    
  • Michael Swaine, Four Feynman Books, "Programmer's Bookshelf", Electronic Review of Books
    
  • Peter Weiss, "Dr Feynman's Doodles: How one scientist's simple sketches transformed physics", first published in Science News, 168:3 [July 16, 2005]:40-42, 44.
  • William Deresiewicz, "Who profits from scientific research,", The Nation, March 16, 2009, pp. 23-28.
• For Sy Montgomery: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Gildikas
  • The Jane Goodall Institute
  • Bettyann Kevles, review of The Chimpanzees of Gombe, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, 8 (Literature Resources from Gale, 7 January 2010.
  • Jane Goodall: Enormous strengths and some weaknesses in her study: a blog-essay from Dr Moody's lectures, together with a favorable review of Sy Montgomery's Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. [to be linke in soon]
  • Sue E Simon, "Living with Close Relatives", The American Biology Teacher, 47: 5, Neurobiology and Behavior (May, 1985):267-269
  • Recommended book on Dian Fosse: Farley Mowat, Woman in the Mists. New York: Warner, 1988.
  • Birute Galdikas: Orangutan Foundation International
  • Sy Montgomery: Official Publishers Website
  • Barbara King's "Is Fieldwork Feminine", Women's Review of Books, 8:9 (1991):19-20.
• For Steve Olson's Mapping Human History
  • Steve Olson's website
  • a short list of books and essays on archeaology, human genetic history, migration, language study, history, literature and memory
  • Linda Vigilant, review of Mapping Human History: "Moving and Mixing," Science, New Series, 297 (August 2002):775.
  • A NOVA Transcript: In Search of the First Language as aired by PBS
  • Nicholas Wade's "Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans",, New York Times, May 6, 2010
  • David Brown's "Ancient DNA shows interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal," Washington Post, Friday, May 7, 2010
• For Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science and all movies and writing about medicine:
  • 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 Angel "Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption", New York Review of Books, 56:1(January 15, 2009) The state of medicine in the US today
  • Marcia Angell, "Your Dangerous Drugstore", New York Review of Books, 53:10 (June 8, 2006).
  • 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.
    
  • Hilary Mantel, "Some Girls Want Out",, London Review of Books, 5:26 (2004).
  • Atul Gawande, "The Way We Age Now", The New Yorker, April 30, 2007.
    
  • Atul Gawande, "Sick and Twisted",The New Yorker, July 23, 2007
    
  • Atul Gawande, "Hellhole" an essay on medical and human rights about the torture of solitary confinement, The New Yorker, March 30, 2009
    
  • Wikipedia article on Atul Gawande
• A short list of books and essays on the science of medicine.