Extra Credit Opportunity

Another reading coming up... attend, do a write-up, and get extra credit!

April 15th @ Schaible Auditorium, 7 PM

Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel's newest book is Further Adventures in the Restless Universe. She is also the author of a novel, Carrying the Body and a previous collection, In the Year of Long Division. Her stories have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, Black Book, Fence, Open City, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, NOON and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She was a fiction editor for many years, followed by a seven-year stint as Executive Articles Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine and three years as Editor-at-Large at More magazine; she has also taught in the MFA program at Columbia University. She now works part time at Readers Digest as Editor at Large, Books, and is completing a memoir. She lives outside New York City with her husband and sons and can be reached at Dawn@​Raffel.name. For more information please visit www.dawnraffel.com

Wikipedia Videos

Extra Credit Opportunity

Daryl Farmer, an assistant professor in the English Department, will be reading from his book Bycicling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West.

Friday, March 25, 2011 - 7 PM
Reichardt 201

Extra Credit Opportunities

A few things coming up...

Tonight - Poetry Reading: Cecily Parks, 4 March, 7 PM, Schaible Auditorium, UAF

Saturday - Poetry Reading: Lance Twitchell and John Morgan, 5 March, 7 PM, Pioneer Park Bear Gallary

March 19 - Poetry Reading: Nuala Ni Dhomnaill (Irish Poet Laureate) 7 PM, Pioneer Park Bear Gallary

As always, if you attend any of these events just do a blog post about your experience for 10 points.

Have a great weekend!

Heads Up - Thursday 2/24

Hey 111ers,
A couple of changes in the syllabus to note... I'm removing "We Alaskan," from the reading list.  Instead, we'll be looking at a documentary today and preparing a critical review (to replace Reading Response #4). 

Please come to class on Tuesday ready to discuss "Killing Wolves," and "The Old Crow."

For Tuesday - Analysis Essay

Don't forget, as we talked about in our conferences, I'm going to be asking everyone to have the following ready for Tuesday's class:

1) Author selected, along with two pieces of writing by that author.
2) A source that provides biographical information. 
3) A theme that connects these three sources.

If you struggle with this over the weekend, let me know.  For this essay, it will be important that you get started on time, and make steady progress up to the deadline.  Finishing the work for this essay at the last possible minute will be disastrous for your grade.

See you Tuesday!

PS - we'll be discussing "Going Native," (on the blog) and "Salvation," (in your textbook). Reading Response #3 is due Tuesday at 11:59 PM.

Extra Credit Opportunity

There's another reading coming up... if you want to attend and give me a one page write-up, you'll get 10 extra points (the equivalent of one whole letter grade on your essays).


Friday, February 18, 2011 - 7:00 PM - Museum of the North
Jeanne E. Clarke

Jeanne E. Clark is the author of a collection of poems, OHIO BLUE TIPS, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. She regularly teaches creative writing classes with an emphasis in poetry as well as literature classes such as Women Writers and Modern American Poetry. She is interested in community-based education and taught for many years in prisons, nursing homes, homeless shelters, and public schools as an Artist in Education. She is at work on a second poetry collection, tentatively titled "The First Good Day of My Life."

Time Stamp Issue

One more thing... many of you have emailed me with concern about your blog post time stamps.  While it comes into my reader correctly, there is a quick way to remedy this problem.  Go into the "settings," tab and click on "formatting."  There will be a place a few lines down where you can indicate which timezone to use.  Select the one for "Alaska time," and you should be good to go.

Authors for Analysis Essay

Hey peoples:
A few of you have mentioned that you'd like to have the list of authors for the analysis essay again... well here they are!  Let me know if you have any questions.

                                             1.     Samuel Hubbard Scudder

                                             2.     Angela Carter

                                             3.     John Haines

                                             4.     Mark Doty

                                             5.     Judy Ruiz

                                             6.     David Sedaris

                                             7.     Grace Paley

                                             8.     Langston Hughes

                                             9.     Sherry Simpson

                                          10.     Margaret Murie

                                          11.     Jim Corder

                                          12.     Gretel Ehrlich

                                          13.     Paul Theroux

Conferences Schedule

Hey 111ers,
As promised, here is the conference schedule.  DO NOT miss your scheduled conference - it will cost you 2 absences and leave me feeling jilted.  So please be sure to show up, on time!

I forgot to walk you up to my office on Thursday but it is pretty easy to find.  Take the elevator up to the 8th floor.  To your left will be the Writing Center.  Head to the right toward the main English office.  My cubicle is in space 12 (take a right again once you enter cubeland).

Things to prepare for our conference:
1) Please have your chosen author (for the analysis essay) in mind.  We will be talking about strategies for selecting your two other sources.
2) Come prepared with any questions you might have about the analysis essay.  You'll be expected to use our conference week to nail down your three total sources and do some pre-writing.

See you next week!

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
8:20 - Elina
8:40 - Whitney
9:00 - Bria
9:20 - Kyle
9:40 - Lee Ann
10:00 - Tommy
10:20 - Kaisa
10:40 - Jessi
11:00 - Eztra
11:20 - Jenna
11:40 - Adam

Thursday, 17 February 2011

9:00 - Brianna
9:20 -Tanya
9:40 - Joe
10:00 -Mica
10:20 -Tyler K.
10:40 - Jacob
11:00 -Brad
11:20 -Aiza
11:40 -Ruby
12:00 - Nathan
1:00 - Jesse
1:20 - Tyler H.
1:40 - Nicky
2:00 - Cory

How to Use a Semicolon

How to Use a Semicolon

Extra Credit Opportunity

Just a heads up - here is an extra credit opportunity coming up:

E.G.O. reading - English Graduate Organization is hosting a reading of poetry (Cody Kucker), non-fiction (John Messick), and fiction (Mollie Murphy). See your ENGL111 & 211 teachers in action!

Friday, February 11, 2011 - 7:00 PM - Bear Gallery, Pioneer Park

Write up approximately 250 words in response (photos would be great!), post it to your blog, and you'll earn 10 points extra credit.

Museum Post - my favorites

A Place to Go to Listen

"Silent Forest V" by Todd Sherman

"Great Alaska Outhouse Experience," by Craig Buchanan (Mica for scale)

Creepy.

"Willow," by Kate Salisbury Wool

 

 

 

 

"Ravens," photograph by Hoshino

What about you?  What was your favorite piece at the museum (other than the one you wrote about)?

Museum Day

Remember... we'll be meeting for class in the Museum of the North today.  See you there!

Ten Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

Documents now accessible!

After a little finagling, I was able to finally make the course documents and readings accessible on the blog.  If you have any other problems using the blog, please let me know right away. 

All of your blogs look fantastic!  I've linked your pages under "Class Blogs," here, so if you're curious to see what your classmates are writing about, go take a look! 

See you Thursday!

Course Documents

Many of you have reported that you can't download the PDFs in Course Documents for the course on this blog.  Until I get it figured out, you can always access the course readings on the library's e-res. 

Just go to their site (http://eres.uaf.edu/eres/), click on e-reservations and course pages, and then you can search by the course number or my name.  The password is edharris. 

If you have any further difficulty, let me know.

People as Pictures

Here are a couple of examples of Irezumi tattoos of the Japanese tradition.  

Welcome!

Welcome to ENGL111 - Introduction to Academic Writing.

As we will discuss in class today, this blog will serve as your home base for this course.  Your syllabus, writing assignments and selected readings (outside of the essays in Occasions) can be accessed and downloaded here. I will occasionally post relevant content here, as well as information pertinent to our progress through the semester. You will also be given the opportunity to post content on the class blog for extra credit.

Your first assignment will be handed out in class today.  By next Tuesday, you will be asked to:

• Create your own personal blog (using the instructions posted in "Course Documents" and email me your address.  These addresses will be posted in a blogroll on the class blog.
• Post an introduction on your blog that includes your name, class standing, major, a brief biography and a piece of writing that has had an impact on your life.
• Read the syllabus (posted in "Course Documents"), "People as Pictures," (posted in "Selected Readings"), and "Look at Your Fish" (p. 100 in Occasions). 

Writing for the web and Web 2.0 interactivity will be a focus of this course.  If you feel challenged by the use of technology, please come see me as soon as possible.