CSUN English 098: Fall 2007 Reading List

Required Texts

• Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Shadow. New York: Tor, 1999. aka ES

• Silverman, Hughes, and Weinbroer. Rules of Thumb. 6th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004. aka ROT

• A college level dictionary.

Recommended online manual source:

• Personal Narratives
  • William Least Heat Moon. "West Texas." Handout

  • Gail Godwin. "The Watcher at the Gates." Handout

• Readings for "concept" paper:

  Refer to the class schedule for due dates. The following articles will either be handouts or available through library services.

  • Saukko. "How to Poison Earth."

  • Shaheen. "The Media's Image of Arabs."

  • Baca. "So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americas."

  • Gates. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man"

  • Vonnegut. "A Final Word on Censorship from Kurt Vonnegut."

  • O'Brien. "The Things They Carried."

  Substitutions and changes will be announced in class as well as on the web. Readings from New Voices will be decided in class and posted to the web.

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