Below is a schedule of reading assignments and portfolio due dates.  A detailed schedule for weekly reading and writing assignments (including assigned weeks for blog posts) can be found on Moodle.  Please check there regularly.

Weeks 1 & 2 (Aug 25, 27, 29, Sept 1, 3, 5)
Introductions and Definitions
What is an essay?
Lopate, “The Essay, An Exercise in Doubt”
Montaigne, Selected essays
Writer’s Autobiography: working draft due

Week 3 (Sept 8, 10, 12)
Bascom, “Picturing the Personal Essay”
Macrorie, “The Poison Fish,” “Writing Freely,” “What is Good Writing?”
Edmundson, “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” (Best American Essays 2012)
Best American Essays 2013

Week 4 (Sept 15, 17, 19)
Best American Essays, cont.
Revised autobiography due
Conferences

Week 5 (22, 24, 26)
Kothari, “If You are What you Eat”
Sedaris, “SantaLand Diaries”
Wallace, Selected essays
Final autobiography due with Portfolio 1

Week 6 (Sept 29, Oct 1, Oct 3)
“Teen Study: Social Media is Positive Experience” and other NPR pieces
Audio Essay topics due
Conferences

Week 7 (Oct 6, 8, 10)
Audacity workshop
Emerson, “American Scholar”

FALL BREAK

Week 8 (Oct 15, 17)
Gass, “Emerson and the Essay”
Podcast drafts due
Conferences

Week 9 (Oct 20, 22, 24)
Baron, A Better Pencil (selected chapters)

Week 10 (Oct 27, 29, 31)
Branch, “Snowfall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”
Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Final podcast due with Portfolio 2
WordPress workshop
InDesign workshop

Week 11 (Nov 3, 5, 7)
Wilks, “Fitting the Pattern”
Self, Kafka’s Wound

Week 12 (Nov 10, 12, 14)
Drafts of final project due
Conferences

Weeks 13-14 (Nov 17, 19, 21, 24, Dec 1, 3, 5)
Course wrap-up and final project works-in-progress presentations