Family and Friends in the Santa Ynez Area
Instructor: James H. Donelan
Monday, Wednesday, 1:00-2:50 Enroll Code: 52589
Mondays: Girvetz 2108
Wednesdays: Miramar Lab, Phelps 1526
Email: donelan@writing.ucsb.edu
Web Site: http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/donelan
Environmental Studies 1 Home Page
Office: 1523 South Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 9:00-10:00, Wednesday 9:00-10:00 or by appointment.
Texts: All books are available in the UCen Book Store.
Carson, Silent Spring (Spring)
Frazier, Great Plains (Plains)
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (Ballads)
If you do not already own a basic writing handbook such as Hacker’s A Writer’s
Reference, you must purchase one. Handbooks are available at the
UCen Bookstore; choose one you like.
Computer Program:
ConnectWeb (purchase online for $20)
Program site: http://connectweb.com/ucsb.asp
This section is Writing 2LK, 6.
Course Description: A writing course focusing on developing analytical skills,
synthesizing multiple sources, sustaining coherent arguments, and revising for
clarity of style. Reading and writing assignments are drawn from topics addressed
in Environmental Studies 1. Students must be concurrently enrolled in ES1.
Drop Deadline: The drop deadline for Writing 2LK is Friday, September
26 at 4:45PM. Do NOT assume that you have been dropped from the course because
you have failed to attend class.
Requirements: The course requires regular attendance, active participation
in class discussion and activities, and timely completion of all assignments,
including preliminary writing exercises as well as formal, graded essays.
You will write short essays in science, social science, and the humanities,
and two in-class timed writings. Your course grade is determined as follows:
In addition:
Syllabus
I: Environmental Science: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
9/22
Introduction and Logistics
9/24
Class meets in the lab today.
Reading: Spring, Introduction and Chapters 1-3
Homework: Brief (two long paragraphs) statement of goals for Writing 2LK.
Have the assignment available in class as either a Microsoft Word or
html file.
In-class: Introduction to ConnectWeb; online discussion of goals.
9/29
Reading: Spring, Chapters 4-7
Homework: Method and Argument in Silent Spring.
In-class: Discussion of analysis; science and rhetoric.
10/1
Class meets in the lab today.
Reading: Spring, Chapters 8-12
Homework: Outline of Science Essay
In-class: Formal structure in scientific writing; on-line discussion
10/6
Yom Kippur—class attendance not mandatory.
Reading: Spring, Chapters 9-13
Homework: Draft of science essay, at least half-complete.
In-class: Film, Silent Spring
10/8
Class meets in the lab today.
Reading: Spring, Chapters 14-17
Homework: Full draft of science essay.
In-class: Peer review of science essay.
10/10 Final draft of science essay due by noon.
10/13
Class meets in Davidson Library.
10/15
Class meets in the lab today.
Reading: Plains, Chapters 1-4
Homework: Preliminary bibliography.
In-class: First in-class timed essay. Online discussion of social
science and journalism.
10/20
Reading: Plains, Chapters 5-8
Homework: Prospectus for social science essay.
In-class: Group discussion of topic development.
10/22
Class meets in the lab today.
Reading: Plains, Chapters 9-11
Homework: Outline and tentative thesis statement.
In-class: Thesis statement development.
10/27
Homework: Half of rough draft.
In-class: The writing process.
10/29
Class meets in the lab today.
Homework: Full draft of social science essay.
In-class: Peer review
11/3
Homework: Final draft of social science essay due.
In-class: Discussion of social science and the environment.
11/5
Class meets in the lab today.
Readings: "Introduction" 1, "Ancyent Marinere" 23, Ballads
Homework: A Defense of Poetry
In-class: Group discussion of defenses.
11/10
Veterans Day Observed! No class!
11/12
Class meets in the lab today.
Readings: "Yew Tree" 45, "Nightingale" 47, "Thorn" 73, Ballads
Homework: Prospectus of humanities essay.
In-class: Group discussion of prospectuses and poetry.
11/17
Readings: "Idiot Boy" 88, "Tables Turned" 104, "Tintern Abbey" 110,
Ballads
Homework: Outline and thesis statement.
In-class: Humanities writing, editing, and revising
11/19
Class meets in the lab today.
Reading: Rousseau, Excerpt from Discourse on Inequality 137,
Ballads
Homework: First three paragraphs of humanities essay.
In-class: Second in-class timed essay. Group discussion of introductions.
11/24
Group Meetings.
11/26
Happy Thanksgiving!
12/1
Homework: Full draft of humanities essay.
In-class: Discussion: the environment and the humanities.
12/3
Class meets in lab today.
Final class.
12/8
Final draft of humanities essay due.