| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introductions Course Overview | Letter to me due |
| 2 | Voice and Sensibility Audience Analogy and Argument | Homework 1 due |
| 3 | Food and Memory, Family and Culture What Makes Good Writing? | Homework 2 due |
| 4 | Share Journals "Starving Children": The Meaning and Value of Shared Meals Elements of the Essay | Homework 3 due |
| 5 | Discuss Fisher and Dillard What is an Essay? Ideas for Essay 1? | Homework 4 due Draft of essay 1 due |
| 6 | Workshop Essay 1 | Homework 5 due |
| 7 | Writing Clinic re: Essay 1 Bourdain and Bilger: Cooking As a Profession | Homework 6 due Revise essay 1 due |
| 8 | Introduce Research Project Watch Julia Child Episode and Discuss | Homework 7 due |
| 9 | The Book Review As an Essay Gopnik and Acocella: Food and History | Homework 8 due Journal entry on fast food nation due |
| 10 | Discuss Fast Food Nation, Part 1 | Homework 9 due |
| 11 | Discuss Fast Food Nation, Part 2 | Homework 10 due Proposal for essay 3 due |
| 12 | Share Proposals and Refine Them "Java Man": Food As Science and Symbol | Homework 11 due Journal entry: link two readings due |
| 13 | Discuss Readings: Solutions to the Fast Food Culture? The Economics of Our Food Supply | Homework 12 due Proposal for essay 2 due |
| 14 | Work on Ideas for Essay 2 | Homework 13 due Draft of essay 2 due |
| 15 | Workshop Essay 2 in Small Groups | Homework 14 due Essay 3 revised proposal and annotated bibliography due 5 days after Lec #15 |
| 16 | Writing Clinic: Issues From Essay 2 | Homework 15 due Revise essay 2 due on Lec #17 |
| 17 | Library Visit | Homework 16 due Work on essay 3 due |
| 18 | Meetings re: Essay 3 | Homework 17 due Draft of essay 3 due |
| 19 | Workshop Essay 3 in Small Groups | Homework 18 due Work on revising essays as needed due |
| 20 | Writing Clinic: Issues From Essay 3 Alice's Restaurant | Homework 19 due Proposal for oral presentation due 3 days after Lec #20 |
| 21 | Meetings re: Essay 3 As Needed | Homework 20 due Revise essay 3 due |
| 22 | Writing Clinic As Needed | Homework 21 due Re-revise essay 2 due Essay 3 due one day after Lec #22 |
| 23 | Edit and Polish Essay 2 Re-revisions | Homework 22 due Work on oral presentation due |
| 24 | Oral Presentations | Homework 23 due Work on revision for portfolios due |
| 25 | Oral Presentations (cont.) | Homework 24 due Work on revision for portfolios due |
| 26 | Evaluations | Homework 25 due Portfolios all work due |