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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
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
Vault: The Most Trusted Name
in Career Information