Professor Hartley
Office: Ellis 316; Phone: 593-2812; E-Mail: hartleyg@ohio.edu
Website: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~hartleyg/hartley.html
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Description:
This course is for advanced and adventurous writers who are looking for challenging reading and writing experiences. It functions as a writing workshop in which we focus on specific texts, themes related to those texts, and questions about writing that grow out of our interaction with those texts.
The readings will center on the novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and work out from there to related sources and questions, including questions about Freshman Composition.
We will focus on two things: 1) the relationships between philosophy, literature, and composition; and 2) the relationship between a text and its "source" texts (other texts which it is addressing and reworking).
We will practice composing and revising expository essays which are well organized, logically coherent, and effective for their purpose and audience.
Schedule
Note: This schedule is subject to change by the professor.
WEEK ONE: September 8-10: Introduction
WEEK TWO: 13-17: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
WEEK THREE: 20-24: Zen cont.
WEEK FOUR: 27-October 2: Paper 1 rough draft due Monday; revision workshop; Paper 1 due Wednesday
WEEK FIVE: 4-8: Phaedrus
WEEK SIX: 11-15: Paper 2 rough draft due Monday; revision workshop; Paper 2 due Wednesday
WEEK SEVEN: 18-22: Snow Leopard
WEEK EIGHT: 25-29: Paper 3 rough draft due Monday; revision workshop; Paper 3 due Wednesday
WEEK NINE: November 1-5: Synthesis
WEEK TEN: 8-12: Synthesis cont.; Paper 4 rough draft due Wednesday; revision workshop
WEEK ELEVEN: 15: Last Day of Class—PAPER 4 due.