CSUN English 113-A: Fall 2014 Tentative Reading List

Required Texts

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

• Bullock, Goggin and Weinberg. Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook. 3E ed. Boston: Norton, 2013. aka NFG

• New Voices

• A college level dictionary.

Some texts (texts may include poems, magazine articles or other material) are available to students currently enrolled in 113-A through Oviatt Library course reserves. To access, go to Course Reserve Services. You will be asked for the instructor's name, your student ID and PIN. You will also need the course password which I will give you in class. You should print out readings as needed. If you do not want to print from the electronic database, you may go to the fourth floor of Oviatt library and request the hard copy in order to make your own copy.

Refer to the class schedule on Moodle for due dates.

• Progression One: Literacy Narrative
  • William Least Heat Moon. "West Texas."

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

  • Students' choice of literacy narrative from NFG

• Progression Two: Rhetorical Analysis - Seeing and Hearing Texts

  Tentative list is TBA and will change as class progresses.

  • "The King's Speech."

  • Bosch. "First Eat All The Lawyers" (NFG)

  • Students' choice of print advertisement

  • Saukko. "How to Poison Earth." course reserves

  • Music Video or commercial

• Progression Three: Textual Analysis: Ender's Shadow

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.

Last Revised Aug 15