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Week |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
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1 |
No class |
1/15
No class |
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2 |
1/20
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Introduction to the course
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1/22
Reading: BT pp. xiv-xxi, 6-23
Creative non-fiction
Description exercise |
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3 |
1/27
Reading: BT: pp1-5; ER: Tisdale
LP 11-19, 43-63
What makes good travel
Assignment 1 |
1/29
Reading: BT: 153-155
ER-Stern, Hansen
Place: Mary
è
Email query |
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4 |
2/3
Readings: ER- Hansen, Tsui,
èBring
3 copies of your draft
Format
Alan Dodd -guidebook writer |
2/5
èWorkshop
Assignment1
Reading: BT ?, LP: 65-76
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|
5 |
2/10
èAssignment
1 DUE
Sentence style
Discuss
Assignment 2
Readings: LP: pp 89 –
92,ER: Gross- Hawaii; Greenfield-Hong Kong |
2/12
Travel writing magazines: audience and kinds
of articles accepted
Readings:BT: 44-70, ER -Doonan |
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6 |
2/17
èEmail
query for Assignment 2 due by noon, please
Readings: BT:218- 224, 175-178
LP: 100- 105, 92-100
Narration: Kate |
2/19
Readings (Samples like
Assignment 2) :: Read these before you write the draft (we'll discuss
them briefly on 2/24
ER: Ohlson (Kabul) - Gormet
Vlahos (Iran) - NY Times Travel
Arnold (Australia SE) - Outside |
|
7 |
2/24
è
4 copies of A2 to distribute for workshop |
2/26
Reading
èWorkshop
A2 |
|
8 |
3/3
èAssignment
2 DUE
Sentence style
Discuss Assignment 3
Readings: BT 156-174
ER: Jenkins |
3/5
Reading: BT 211-217 (Turkey)
ER: Gilbert (France)
ore
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|
9 |
3/10
Reading: BT 77-92
Characterization: Stephanie
èEmail
query due/Assignment 3 -by
5PM |
3/12
Reading: BT
239-263 (Dubai) |
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|
3/17 Spring
Break |
3/19
Spring Break |
|
10 |
3/24
Reading: BT:291
(ski Korea), 193-211 (giant in Ukraine) ,
Kate's essay
about Sun Valley |
3/20
Reading: BT 264 (Sedaris)
Tone:
Tessa |
|
11 |
3/31
No Class
è4
copies of A3 to distribute for workshop |
4/2
èWorkshop
A3 |
|
12 |
4/7
Reading:BT 105-122 (sex trade/Costa Rica)
èASSIGNMENT
3 Due
Discuss Assignment 4 |
4/9
Reading: BT 105-122(sex trade/Costa
Rica), 135-153 (founder of
Lonely Planet)
Kate E. |
|
13 |
4/14
Reading:
The Border (P Chilson) > ER
Also read
BT 224-238 (Libya)
èQuery
for Assignment 4 due
Guest Speaker: Peter Chilson
(Stephanie
Russ) > to be
rescheduled. |
4/16
Readings: BT 224-238 (Libya)
271 (flying)
èQuery
for Assignment 4 due
Hadley and Jillian
Lindsay |
|
14 |
4/21
Readings:239-263
(Dubai)
Rob Haggart --photo editor
Photos and format
Becca
Colleen |
4/23
Readings:239-263
(Dubai) Mary: pacing, use of headings, ...
Revision of
Assignment 3 DUE (optional)
Eric
Emily |
|
15 |
4/28
Reading: Hessler (China) ER
èBring
4 copies of A4 to distribute for workshop
Tessa
Mary |
4/30
Reading:
èWorkshop
A 4 |
|
16 |
5/5
No class
Office hours 1-3:30 |
5/7
No class
èASSIGNMENT
4 DUE by 2PM
Turn in your work in a
file folder: Cover
letter + new article or
Cover letter (briefly explain what you revised) + Two thoroughly
revised articles |