English 302: N15
Week 1 (Jan 23): HTW "5 Steps" (xv-xxii).
Preparation: Purpose (434), Audience (46, 447), Context (97), Scope (496),
Medium (497)
Week 2 (Jan 30): HTW "Correspondence"
(100-113)
Darwin:
National Academy of Sciences: Evolution and
the Nature of Science (289).
Week 3 (Feb 6): Darwin Origin Introduction,
Chapters 3 and 4.
Letter Assignment due Feb 6
Week 4 (Feb 13): Darwin Origin Chapters
6, 9, and 14
HTW "Abstracts" (7) and "Executive Summaries" (182).
Week 5 (Feb 20): Darwin's Influence on Science
Bowler "The Evolutionary Synthesis" (319)
Gould "[On Punctuated Equilibrium]" (344)
Eldridge "The Great Stasis Debate" (349)
HTW: Organization (360), Methods of Development (328), Writing a Draft (579)
Summary
assignment due Feb 20.
Week 6 (Feb 27): Darwin's Influence
on Science (continued)
Hull "Cladistic Analysis" (361)
Padian and Chiappe "[Cladistics in Action: The Origin of Birds and Their
Flight]" (363)
HTW: Paragraph construction (365), Effective Sentences (501), Sentence Variety
(508).
Week 7 (March 6): Darwin: Social Thought
Hofstedter "The Vogue of Spencer" (389)
HTW: Research (458)
Essay 1 due March 6
Week 8: Spring Break
Week 9 (March 20): Darwin: Social Thought
Nowak, et al "The Arithmetics of Mutual Help" (403)
HTW: Unity (547), Coherence (72), Conciseness (90), logic (309)
Library research
assignment due March 20
Week 10 (March 27): Darwin: Social Thought
Wilson "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis" (409)
Gould "Biological Potentiality vs Biological Determinism" (415)
Week 11 (April 3): Darwin: Philosophy and
Ethics
Pinker "How the Mind Works" (465)
Jones "The Set Within the Skull" (477)
HTW: Proposals (412)
Mini Research Assignment April 3.
Week 12 (April 10): Darwin and Religion
Mainstream Religious Support (527)
Scott "Antievolution and Creationism in the US" (534)
Institute for
Creation Research "Tenets of Creationism" (555)
HTW: Avoiding Plagiarism ( 381), Documenting Sources (134)
Research Proposal due April 10
Week 13 (April 17): Darwin and Religion
Johnson "Darwin on Trial" (581)
Scott "Review of Johnson" (586)
Behe "Darwin's Black Box" (592)
Dorit "Review of Behe" (601)
Annotated
Bibliography due April 17
Week 14 (April 24): HTW: Ethics in Writing
(178), biased language (49), copyright (99).
Grammar review (parallelism, subordination, comma usage).
HTW: Presentations (389)
Peer review in class April 24
Week 15 (May 1): Presentations.
Research
papers due May 1.
No Final Exam. Research papers returned during final exam period.
Monday, May 15, 4:30.
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