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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 "You want Fries with That?" by Michael Pollan

Paper Format (Lab orientation, Wednesday, September 30)

Reading for Monday, September 28: Excerpt from "Unhappy Meals" by Michael Pollan

Reading for Monday, September 28: Excerpt from "Hunting Whales in West L.A." by Susan Salter Reynolds

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

Document: How to write your weekly Reflective Revising Log (Lab orientation, Wednesday, September 30)

Reading (1 of 2) for Friday, October 2: Excerpt from "To Die For" by Adam Platt

Reading (2 of 2) for Friday, October 2: Excerpt 2 from "Unhappy Meals" by Michael Pollan

Paper Topic 1 requirements – Due the week of October 5

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

Reading for Friday, October 9: Excerpt from "The Oil We Eat" by Richard Manning

How to Write a Vocabulary Log (Due every Friday beginning on October 9)

Reading for Friday, October 16: "Our Good Earth: The Future Rests on the Soil Beneath Our Feet," By Charles C. Mann

Paper Topic 2 requirements – Due the week of October 19

Reading (1 of 3) for Friday, October 23: Excerpt from "Dirt Poor" by Joel Bourne

Reading (2 of 3) for Friday, October 23: Excerpt from The Tyranny of Oil by Antonia Juhasz

Reading (3 of 3) for Friday, October 23: Excerpt from "Some Convenient Truths" by Gregg Easterbrook

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

Reading for Friday, October 30: "Recession Road Trip" by Christina Davidson

Reading for Friday, October 30: "Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, " by Barbara Ehrenreich

Presentation Guidelines, Your Topics, and Presentation Times for Friday, November 13

Reading for Friday, November 20: "Inside a Poultry Processing Plant: An Ethnographic Portrait" by Steve Striffler

Presentation Guidelines, Your Topics, and Presentation Times for Wednesday, December 2

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