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FOR THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS AND THE MINI-ESSAY:

Peter Dizikes, "Our Two Cultures.New York Times, March 22, 2009

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Links from a previous instance of this class.

For readings on library reserve: Go here.  Username:  reserve   Password:  Fd73gb

Sandra Steingraber, "The Fracking of Rachel Carson: Silent Spring's Lost Legacy, told in fifty parts."  Orion, Sept/Oct 2012

Links to science journals.

Poets who write about science/nature.

The Wellcome Trust (funding behind Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Evolution)

Guidelines for leading class discussion

An interview with Ian McEwan
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INTERESTING SITES

Mark C. Taylor, "End the University as We Know It," New York Times, April 27, 2009
Willam Chace, "The Decline of the English Department" American Scholar Autumn 2009 
Interview with Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Airlines, New York Times, April 26, 2009
Advice to graduate-school applicants, University of Michigan
Grammar/usage/diction tests
MLA Style information (Purdue University)
AFTER DEADLINE: The New York Times Grammar Blog
Facebook: I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar

Text Encoding Initiatives (TEI)
Fortune Magazine: "Zappos Know How to Kick It" (Feb 2009)
An Interview With Buddy Levy -- Current Intelligence

Electronic Literature: What is it?
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Nobody Here--Just Me
New River Journal
Electronic Poetry Center
Ctheory Multimedia
|--links--| (Lance Olsen's website)
SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES at Cornell; Digital Humanities Scholars
Literary Theory - Audio - Download free content from Yale University on iTunes

Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
The National Commission on Writing: Report on Writing in the Business World
craigslist.org
Craigslist Foundation 

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