Jim Donelan's Course Page

Hölderlin's Tower, Tübingen

These links provide information for courses taught at UCSB by Jim Donelan of the Writing Program.

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Course Syllabi and Information

Fall 2011

• Writing 2: Academic Writing
• Writing 109SS: Writing for the Social Sciences
• English 179: British Romantic Writers

Summer 2011

• Comparative Literature 186RR: Romantic Revolutions
• English 102: English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789

Summer 2008

• Writing 2: The Modern World (Session A)
• Comparative Literature 30A: Major Works of European Literature, Classical and Medieval (Session A)
• Comparative Literature 30B: Major Works of European Literature, Renaissance and Baroque (Session B)

Spring 2008

• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession
• English 179: British Romantic Writers

Winter 2008

• Writing 109SS: Writing for the Social Sciences
• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession

Fall 2007

• Writing 2: Academic Writing
• Writing 2LK: Academic Writing Linked to Art History 6A
• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities

Summer 2007

• Comparative Literature 30A: Major Works of European Literature, Classical and Medieval (Session A)
• Comparative Literature 30B: Major Works of European Literature, Renaissance and Baroque (Session B)
• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession (Session B)

Spring 2007

• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities
• English 192: Science Fiction

Winter 2007

• Writing 109SS: Writing for the Social Sciences
• Writing 2LK: Academic Writing Linked to Art History 6B

Fall 2006

• Writing 109EC: Writing for Business Economics
• Writing 2: Academic Writing

Summer 2006

• Comparative Literature 30A: Major Works of European Literature, Classical and Medieval
• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession

Spring 2006

• English 151JD: The Younger Romantics
• Writing 109SS: Writing for the Social Sciences

Winter 2006

• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities
• Writing 109SS: Writing for the Social Sciences

Fall 2005

• Writing 2: Academic Writing
• Writing 109SS: Writing for the Social Sciences

Summer 2005

• Comparative Literature 30A: Major Works of European Literature, Classical and Medieval
• Comparative Literature 186RR: Romantic Revolutions

Spring 2005

• Writing for the Legal Profession
• Writing for the Social Sciences--MW
• Writing for the Social Sciences--TR
  

Winter 2005

Fall 2004

Summer 2004

• Comparative Literature 30A: Major Works of European Literature, Classical and Medieval (Session A)
• Comparative Literature 186RR: Romantic Revolutions (Session B)

 

Spring 2004

• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities
• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession

Winter 2004

• Writing 109SS:Writing for the Social Sciences

Fall 2003

• Writing 2LK: Academic Writing Linked to Environmental Studies 1
• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession--MW
• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession--TR

Summer 2003

• Comparative Literature 30A: Major Works of European Literature, Classical and Medieval
• Comparative Literature 30C: Major Works of European Literature, Romantic and Modern

Spring 2003

• Writing 109L: Writing for the Legal Profession

Winter 2003

• Writing 50: Writing and the Research Process
• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities (MW)
• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities (TR)

Fall 2002

• Writing 50: Writing and the Research Process
• Writing 109SS: Writing for the Social Sciences

Spring 2002

• Writing 50: Writing and the Research Process (MW)
• Writing 50: Writing and the Research Process (TR)
• English 103b: British Literature from 1789 to 1900

Winter 2002

• Comparative Literature 186RR, Romantic Revolutions: Philosophy, History, and the Arts in Europe
• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities

Fall 2001

• Writing 109HU: Writing for the Humanities
• Writing 2LK: Academic Writing Linked to Political Science 1

Spring 2001

• English 192--Science Fiction

Winter 2001

•  Writing 2LK   Academic Writing Linked to Art History 6B
•  Writing 109HU   Writing for the Humanities
•  Writing 109L    Writing for the Legal Profession

Fall 2000

• Writing 109HU--Writing for the Humanities
• Writing 2LK
• Writing 50

Spring 2000

• English 181--Charles Darwin and the Nineteenth-century Novel
• Writing 109HU--Writing for the Humanities
• Writing 109L--Writing for the Legal Profession

Winter 2000

• English 192--Science Fiction

Fall 1999

• Writing 2 Syllabus
• Writing 2 LK Syllabus
• Writing 109HU, Writing for the Humanities

General Information

• Jim's Writing Program Link Farm
• Building a Thesis Statement
• A Brief Guide to Writing 2
• Eliminating Wordiness in Your Prose
• How to Be a Better Writer
• Some Notes on How to Format a Literature Essay
• The Virtues and Vices of Writing
• Common Sentence Problems
• The Introductory Paragraph
• Paragraph Transitions
• The Concluding Paragraph
• The Top Five Student Writing Problems
• The Top Four Student Essay Problems
• Crash Policy
• Comp/Rhet Conference Links

Jim Donelan's Curriculum Vitae

Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic, Cambridge University Press, 2008

• Cambridge University Press's Catalog Page
• Amazon.com Page

"Mozart and Enlightenment Thought," Karpeles Museum, September 26, 1999.

Comments? Questions? Email me:  donelan*at*writing.ucsb.edu (Replace "at" with the standard symbol and delete the asterisks. Writing the address this way helps keep it from spammers.)

Updated: 1/5/06