WRIT

1000: Writing Style & Method

Reading Schedule
Semester 1 2015
Week
1

Textbook:

Rhetorical Situations pp. 48-57; Basic Grammar pp. 294-311

Reader:
Herrick, J. (2005). An Overview of Rhetoric. In The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An
Introduction, 3rd ed. (pp. 1-30). Boston: Pearson Education.

Week
2

Textbook:
Verbs pp. 311-322; Subject-Verb Agreement pp. 322-329; Parallelism pp. 279-
281

Reader:
Pullman, G. (2013). Style. In Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice (pp. 129-145).
Pre-Publication Preview. Forthcoming.

Pennebaker, J. (2011). Ignoring the Content, Celebrating the Style. In The Secret
Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (pp.18-38). New York:
Bloomsbury Press.

Week
3

Textbook:
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences pp. 347-351; Sentence Fragments
pp. 352 354

Reader:
Kolln, M. & Gray, L. (2010) Sentence Rhythm. In Rhetorical Grammar:
Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects. 6th Edition (pp. 105-122). Boston:
Pearson.

Week
4

Textbook:
Doing Research, Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes, Integrating Sources and Avoiding
Plagiarism pp. 180-211

Reader:
Lukin, A. (2005). The Grammar of Life in Dialogue with Don Watsons Death Sentence.
ARENA Journal 23: 111-127.

Fish, S. (2011). Its Not the Thought That Counts. In How to Write a Sentence and How to
Read One (pp. 22-33). New York: Harper.

Week
5

Textbook:
Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism pp. 211-220

Reader:
Buranen, L. (1999). But I Wasnt Cheating: Plagiarism and Cross-cultural
Mythology. In L. Buranen & A. Roy (Eds.), Perspectives on Plagiarism and
Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World (pp. 63-74). Albany: State
University of New York Press.

Week
6

Textbook:
Critical Reading pp. 123-136; Analyzing Arguments pp. 136-140; pp. 154-163

Reader:
Fahnestock, J. (1986). Accommodating Science The Rhetorical Life of Scientific
Facts Written Communication 18 (3): 275-296.

Week
7

Textbook:
Developing Paragraphs pp. 75-89

Reader:
Part 1 & Part 5 of Crossley, S.A., Dempsey, K., & McNamara, D.S. (2011). Classifying
paragraph types using linguistic features: Is paragraph positioning important? Journal of
Writing Research, 3(2), 119-143.

Week
8

Textbook:
Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis pp. 269-275; Consistency and
Completeness pp. 275-278; Writing in the Disciplines pp. 573-604

Reader:
Sword, H. (2012). Smart Sentencing. In Stylish Academic Writing (pp. 48-62).
Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press.

Vonnegut, K. (1980). How to Write with Style. IEEE Transactions of Professional

Communication, 24(2), 66-67. (Reprinted from New York: International Paper
Co.)

Week
9

Textbook:
Reviewing and Revising pp. 100-111; Editing and Reflecting pp. 112-120;
Sentence Variety pp. 281-290; Adjectives and Adverbs pp. 339-346

Reader:
Gordon, K.E. (1993). Words. In The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate
Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (pp. 8-29).
New York: Pantheon Books.

Strunk, W. & White, E.B. (2000). An Approach to Style. In The Elements of Style,
4th ed. (pp. 66-85). New York: Longman.

Week
10

Textbook:
Commas pp. 358-367; Semicolons pp. 367-369, Other Punctuation pp. 370-
399

Reader:
Lukeman, N. (2006). The Symphony of Punctuation. In A Dash of Style: The Art
and Mastery of Punctuation (pp. 192---201). New York: W.W. Norton &
Company.

Week
11

Textbook:
Language pp. 231-255

Reader:
Hyland, K. (2001). Bringing in the Reader: Addressee Features in Academic
Articles Written Communication 18: 549-574.

Ruben, A. (2012, March 23). How to Write Like a Scientist. Science Careers.
Retrieved from
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/article
s/2012_03_23/caredit.a1200033

Week
12

Textbook:

Academic Work in Any Discipline pp. 567-572

Reader:
Tang, R. & Suganthi, J. (1999). The I in identity: Exploring writer identity in
student academic writing through the first person pronoun. Journal of English
for Specific Purposes 18: S23-S39.

Williams, J. & Colomb, G. (2012). The Ethics of Style. In Style: The Basics of
Clarity and Grace, 4th ed. (pp. 124-143). Boston: Longman.