CSUN English 098: Spring 2010 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

• New Voices

• A college level dictionary.

Recommended online manual source:

This class does not have an anthology of readings. Rather we will read, discuss, and write about articles chosen specifically for this class, this semester. All materials (texts may include poems, magazine articles or other material) are available to students currently enrolled in 098 through Oviatt Library course reserves. To access, go to Course Reserve Services. You will 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 for due dates.

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

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

• Readings for "concept" paper:
  • Saukko. "How to Poison Earth."

  • Harris. "How Urban Legends Work." Retrieve from course reserves or you can read and print a copy from the web at: howstuffworks.

  • Shaheen. "The Media's Image of Arabs."
    Please choose one article from the following as your own choice article. You are responsible for a clear summary and response of your choice.
    • 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." The first chapter from the book, 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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