Week 04: Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey, "I Still Believe" (1999)

Week 04: Mariah Carey
Mo 09.09

• Read: BRAIN—“Anticipation” – “After Dessert, Crick was Still Four Seats Away from Me”
• Class: Lecture—“MLA Style: An Introduction”

Tu 09.07

• Read: BRAIN—“Anticipation” – “The Music Instinct”
• Class: Lecture—“MLA Style: An Introduction;” Watch—“Dr. Daniel Levitin: The World in Six Songs” (TEDxUSC); Lecture—“Citing Sources in MLA 101”

We 09.08

• Read: BRAIN—“What Makes a Musician?” – “The Music Instinct”
• Class: Watch—“Dr. Daniel Levitin: The World in Six Songs” (TEDxUSC); Lecture—“Citing Sources in MLA 101”
• Due: REFLECTION 03

Week 05: Patsy Cline
Mo 09.16

• Read: eR—“Writing about Music” (University of Calgary), “A Guide to Writing about Music, Pt. 2: Thinking” (Invisible Oranges), “The NPR 100: The Most Important American Musical Works of the 20th Century” (NPR)
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations
• Due: EXPOSITORY ESSAY (Annotated—instructions to be given in class prior to due date)

Tu 09.17

• Read: eR—“Writing about Music” (University of Calgary), “A Guide to Writing about Music, Pt. 2: Thinking” (Invisible Oranges), “The NPR 100: The Most Important American Musical Works of the 20th Century” (NPR)
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia presentations; Lecture—“On Wordiness: Exercises”
• Due: EXPOSITORY ESSAY

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Due by Tu 10.1:
LEARNINGCURVE GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1 & 2:

• ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
• COMMA SPLICES AND FUSED (RUN-ON) SENTENCES
• PARALLELISM
• FRAGMENTS
• PRONOUNS
• SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT