One reason I've been ignoring this blog is that I had to get my course syllabus nailed down for the English 119 course I'm teaching at Rocky this fall. Finally got that e-mailed off. All the readings I came up with (except one) are work related:
1. Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville.
2. Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell.
3. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich.
4. Working, Studs Terkel.
I'm also having them read a long article from Harper's magazine by David Foster Wallace on prescriptivist vs. descriptivist language. It's a bit dense, but well thought out and pretty darn funny, too.
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