English 302: N07 & N08
Week 1 (Jan 23-25): HTW "5 Steps" (xv-xxii).
Preparation: Purpose (434), Audience (46, 447), Context (97), Scope (496),
Medium (497)
Week 2 (Jan 30-Feb 1): HTW "Correspondence"
(100-113)
Letter Assignment due Feb 1.
Darwin:
National Academy of Sciences: Evolution and
the Nature of Science (289).
Week 3 (Feb 6-8): Darwin Origin Introduction, Chapters 3 and 4.
Week 4 (Feb 13-15): Darwin Origin Chapters
6, 9, and 14
HTW "Abstracts" (7) and "Executive Summaries" (182).
Week 5 (Feb 20-22): Summary
assignment due Feb 20. Darwin's Influence on Science
Bowler "The Evolutionary Synthesis" (319)
Gould "[On Punctuated Equilibrium]" (344)
Eldridge "The Great Stasis Debate" (349)
Week 6 (Feb 27-March 1): 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: Organization (360), Methods of Development (328), Writing a Draft (579)
Week 7 (March 6-8): HTW: Paragraph construction
(365), Effective Sentences (501), Sentence Variety (508), Research (458)
Essay 1 Due March 8
Week 8: Spring Break
Week 9 (March 20-22): Darwin: Social Thought
Hofstedter "The Vogue of Spencer" (389)
Nowak, et al "The Arithmetics of Mutual Help" (403)
Library research
assignment due March 20
Week 10 (March 27-29): Darwin: Social Thought
Wilson "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis" (409)
Gould "Biological Potentiality vs Biological Determinism" (415)
HTW: Unity (547), Coherence (72), Conciseness (90), logic (309)
Week 11 (April 3-5): Mini
Research Assignment April 3.
Darwin: Philosophy and Ethics
Pinker "How the Mind Works" (465)
Jones "The Set Within the Skull" (477)
HTW: Proposals (412)
Week 12 (April 10-12): 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 12
Week 13 (April 17-19): 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 19
Week 14 (April 24-26): HTW: Ethics in Writing
(178), biased language (49), copyright (99).
Grammar review (parallelism, subordination, comma usage).
HTW: Presentations (389)
Peer review in class April 26
Week 15 (May 1-3): Presentations.
Research
papers due May 3.
No Final Exam. Research papers returned during final exam period.
N07: Wednesday, May 10th at 1:00
N08:
Monday, May 15th at 12:00
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