English 1A: Spring '20 Reading List

English 1A Tentative Reading List

Required Texts

Sustainability: a Reader for Writers. Ed. Carl Herndl. Oxford UP. New York. 2014. ISBN: 978-0-19-994750-8.
Bollock, Goggin, and Weinberg. The Norton Field Guide to Writing. 4th ed. NY: Norton, 2016.
Choose a novel from the Whole text booklist
various handouts. Most handouts (HO), videos and online sources are linked from this page and the schedule or as files on mahara.

Highly recommended Texts

A college level dictionary.

Please check the schedule for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and response of assigned readings are due within one week of in-class discussion unless otherwise stated in class. Any revision of reading assignments are announced in class and should be posted here or on the class schedule.

Online Communities: Social Networking

Jill Walker Rettberg. "Weblogs: Learning in Public"
Eli Pariser: Beware Online "Filter Bubbles." TedTalk
Amy Bruckman: "The Next Bison"

Research Project

Rachel Carson: "The Obligation to Endure." Excerpt from Silent Spring (SUS)
David Suzuki. "The Sacred Balance." (HO, PDF available on mahara.)
Diamond. "The World as a Polder: What Does it Mean to us Today?" (SUS)
Hardin. "Tragedy of the Commons." (SUS)
Student choice of article from SUS
Other texts for research project
- "The Gleaners and I." Varda. DVD Documentary.
- "The Story of Stuff" online video by Annie Leonard
- Royte. Garbage Land: the Trail of Trash various excerpts retrieved in Mahara or as HO.

Sample paper: "Rare Earth Elements: Economics of Waste and Recovery" (HO)

Textual analysis

Le Guin: genre theory (HO)
NPR Science and Culture Blog Site
science fiction novel (student choice) from novel list

Substitutions and changes will be announced in class as well as on the web.

Last revised Jan 2020.