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The Art of Fact:
Contemporary Literary Journalism

Fall Term 2010-11
TTh 2:30
Russ Hunt

[Moodle site]

The following material is available here:

The Prompts outlining the class activities and assignments, available as we need them
The Records of tasks completed
Table of minimum marks
An explanation of how I read learning reflections
Links to students' learning journals
Links to students' final learning reflections
All the responses to the final course feedback questionnaire

Below is material no longer immediately relevant, but preserved as an archive:

A short description of the course
The full description of the course
The scan of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (the quality gets a bit better after the nearly unreadable first page)
The PDF of the first part of In Cold Blood. (If you're on a slow connection, it will take a while. I'd download the whole thing and save it, so you can read it in parts without having to wait again. Or take a memory stick to the lab, and download it there. It's 35 megabytes; quick in the lab, slow lots of other places).
The "Assignments" forum
The Forum for posting your choice of a background book and your reasons for choosing it
Direct links to reports on background texts
Reading assignments as of 28 October (see Prompt #19):

John Hersey, Hiroshima (two copies of the 1946 book are in the HI Library; I'll put one on two-day reserve. There is a full text of the book on line, but in a not-very-readable courier typeface, here. I've also put the first three sections of the article as it appeared in The New Yorker (August 31, 1946) on the Web site, here.
John McPhee, "Oranges," part one, as published in The New Yorker (May 7, 1966), as a *.pdf That volume of the magazine may be available in the library; if it is, I'll have it put on reserve on Friday.
Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (I could not find an accessible copy of Rolling Nowhere, and since this one, which we agreed was an alternative, was right there in the library as an e-text . . . I'm also putting the hard copy on two-day reserve (it will be there Friday).
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (from the "scribd" site; the library hard copy will be on two-day reserve on Friday)

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