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Reading guidelines

  • Readings are listed on the day they will be discussed in class. They are not assignments for the following class meeting. Do the readings by the day they are listed.
  • Please obtain access to the following books on writing, which are sometimes assigned as recommended reading:
    • They Say / I Say (or TSIS) is Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. “They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
    • The Craft of Research (or COR) is Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. FitzGerald. The Craft of Research. 4th ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
  • All assigned readings will be provided both as hardcopies (distributed in class) and in pdf form through links in the reading assignments. Please bring all hardcopies I give you (not just the ones listed that week) to every class until week 8. Due to my electronics policy, you will not be able to access the readings in class on your phones or laptops.
  • Recommended readings will not be provided in hardcopy. You do not need to bring hardcopies of these to class.
  • If you miss class, please arrange to have a classmate take a hardcopy of the reading to give to you later.

Assigned reading

Our assigned reading comes from these sources:

  • Ahn, D., Annie Jin, S.-A., & Ritterfeld, U. (2012). “Sad movies don’t always make me cry”: The cognitive and affective processes underpinning enjoyment of tragedy. Journal of Media Psychology, 24(1), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000058 🡕
  • Austin, Michael, Useful fictions: Evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature. University of Nebraska Press
  • Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. FitzGerald. The Craft of Research. 4th ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016
  • Boyd, Brian. “The Evolution of Cooperation”, in On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009
  • Dutton, Denis, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2009
  • Goldfinch, Andrew. Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
  • Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. “They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014
  • Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts, Second Edition. Second edition. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2017
  • Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. London, England: Penguin Books, 1999
  • West, P. M. (2005). The Lion’s Mane. American Scientist, 93(3), 226-235. https://doi.org/10.1511/2005.3.226 🡕