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Syllabus (contact information, course requirements, and homework assignments with due dates: Revised October 2)

First-Day In-Class Writing topic and reading: Excerpt from Charles Leadbeater’s talk for TED (Technology, Education, and Design)

Reading for Monday, September 28: "Where Edison Went Wrong" (Excerpt from The Invisible Computer by Donald Norman)

Reading for Monday, September 28: "Creativity," by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Paper Format (Lab orientation, Wednesday, September 30)

Document: "Love at First Bite" (Lab orientation, Wednesday, September 30)

Reading (1 of 3) for Friday, October 2: "Brainstorming," by Gerard I. Nierenberg

Reading (2 of 3) for Friday, October 2: "Classifying Objects," by Gerard I. Nierenberg

Reading (3 of 3) for Friday, October 2: "Forced Connections," by Gerard I. Nierenberg

"Einstein"
(Please print this document and bring it to class on Friday, October 2. You do Not need to read it before class.)

Pre-tutoring checklist – print out and bring to each tutorial, beginning the week of October 5

Paper Topic 1 requirements – Due the week of October 5

Document: How to write your weekly Reflective Revising Log (Review this for lab, Wednesday, October 7)

Reading (1 of 3) for Friday, October 9: "The Creative Personality," by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Reading (2 of 3) for Friday, October 9: "Flow," by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Reading (3 of 3) for Friday, October 9: "A Bolt from the Blue: Sudden Musicophilia," by Oliver Sacks

How to Write a Vocabulary Log (due every Friday, beginning October 9)

Apple and the Environment (due Friday, October 16)

John Maeda and The Laws of Simplicity (due Friday, October 16)

"Meta-Language" and "In an Age of Gadgets, Life Gets Complicated" (Please print this document and bring it to class on Friday, October 16. You do Not need to read it before class.)

Answers to the cloze exercise of Friday, October 16 ("In an Age of Gadgets, Life Gets Complicated")

Paper Topic 2 requirements – Due the week of October 19

"Grammatical Function Words" and "Steve Wozniak" (Please print this document and bring it to class on Friday, October 23. You do not need to read it all before class, but please read the introduction.)

"Brain-Machine Interface" (due on Friday, October 23)

"Simplicity Sells" (due on Friday, October 23)

"Smart Clothing" and "Usability" (due on Friday, October 23)

How to prepare for the midterm or final in-class writing (please read before October 28)

"The Question of Where" (due on Friday, October 30)

"Why Working Less is Better for the Globe" (due on Friday, November 6)

"All Work and No Play" (due on Friday, November 6)

Reading for Friday, November 13: "Diploma at Hand, Japanese Women Find Glass Ceiling Reinforced With Iron"

Paper Topic 4 requirements – Due the week of November 16

Reading (1) for Friday, November 20: "Career Women in Japan Find a Blocked Path" By Martin Fackler

Reading (2) for Friday, November 20: "Are Women Happy Under the Glass Ceiling?" by Hannah Clark

Reading (3) for Friday, November 20: Three Interviews with Alice Wu

How to prepare your final evaluation portfolio, due Wednesday, December 2