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“NOT EVEN PAST:


IMAGINING INHERITED HISTORIES”
EXPO S-25—ACADEMIC WRITING AND CRITICAL READING
SUMMER 2020 SYLLABUS

Instructor: Lisa Gulesserian, PhD


Class Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Professor E-mail: lgulesserian@fas.harvard.edu
Professor Office Hours: via our virtual classroom by appointment

Course Website for Course Schedule,


Assignment Submission, and Virtual Classroom:
https://canvas.harvard.edu

This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and
writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence
and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process, from
prewriting exercises through rough drafts and revisions, forms a key part of the
curriculum. Students applying to the undergraduate program at the Extension School
must complete this course, but it is open to any student interested in gaining an
understanding of academic writing.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
--William Faulkner

Whether distant or recent, the past isn’t dead—it is alive and well in our present. By
vehemently criticizing “the dark ages” or merely telling a story that “is not a story to pass
on,” many authors keep the past alive. In this course, we will feel the pulse of painful
pasts in fiction, poetry, and graphic novels. Through close reading, we will uncover
versions of historical traumas (of the transatlantic slave route, Armenian Genocide, and
Holocaust). In our endeavor to analyze various imaginative restorations of the past from
around the globe, we will explore questions such as: How can writers represent difficult,
forgotten, or unwanted histories? Does the source material for memory affect the way we
remember and imagine the past? What role does collective memory play in fictional
narratives (and vice versa)? How can there be multiple versions of the same painful
history? What happens when we reimagine a distant past? Ultimately, we will see that
the past is “not even past” because literature continually resuscitates it for future
generations.

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REQUIRED BOOKS:
Gardner, Janet E. and Joanne Diaz. Reading and Writing about Literature. 4th ed. Boston
and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017. Print. [ISBN: 978-1319035365]
Marcom, Micheline Aharonian. Three Apples Fell from Heaven. New York: Riverhead
Books, 2001. Print. [ISBN: 978-1573229159]
Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. New York: Pantheon, 1986. Print. [ISBN: 978-
0679748403]
PDFs of various other readings to be posted on our course site.

MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS:
For each of the three units in our course, you will write two response papers (1-3 pages
each) and one longer essay (ranging from 4 to 8 pages, detailed below).

Along the way, you will turn in drafts of your longer essays, participate in peer review
workshops, and attend personal conferences with me.

NOTE: To pass this course, you must complete and submit EVERY assignment.

ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE WORTH


Response 1.1 6/25/2020 by 6:30 pm Completion grade
Response 1.2 6/27/2020 by noon Completion grade
Essay 1 Draft 7/5/2020 by noon Completion grade
Response 2.1 7/9/2020 by 6:30 pm Completion grade
Essay 1 Final
7/11/2020 by noon 20%
(4-6 pgs.)
Response 2.2 7/14/2020 by 6:30 pm Completion grade
Essay 2 Draft 7/18/2020 by noon Completion grade
Response 3.1 7/23/2020 by 6:30 pm Completion grade
Essay 2 Final
7/25/2020 by noon 35%
(5-7 pgs.)
Response 3.2 7/28/2020 by 6:30 pm Completion grade
Essay 3 Draft 8/1/2020 by noon Completion grade
Essay 3 Final
8/7/2020 by noon 45%
(6-8 pgs.)

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To do well in this course, keep the following course policies in mind:

ATTENDANCE:
Because Writing Program courses proceed by sequential writing activities, your consistent
attendance is essential. If you are absent without medical excuse more than once, you are
eligible to be officially excluded or failed. On your first unexcused absence, you will receive an
email from me warning you of your situation. For more details, please visit the Summer
School’s Student Responsibilities page: https://www.summer.harvard.edu/resources-
policies/student-responsibilities

TARDINESS:
This is a very fast-paced course, so we will be using every minute we have together. For this
reason, it is imperative that you join our class on time.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
You are responsible for understanding Harvard Summer School policies on academic
integrity (http://www.summer.harvard.edu/policies/student-responsibilities) and how to
use sources responsibly. Not knowing the rules, misunderstanding the rules, running out
of time, submitting the wrong draft, or being overwhelmed with multiple demands are
not acceptable excuses. If you have any doubts about your use of sources, ask me for help
before handing in the assignment.
To support your learning about academic citation rules, please visit the Resources to
Support Academic Integrity (http://www.summer.harvard.edu/resources-
policies/resources-support-academic-integrity) where you will find links to the Harvard
Guide to Using Sources (https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu) and two free online 15-
minute tutorials to test your knowledge of academic citation policy. The tutorials are
anonymous open-learning tools.

COMPLETION OF WORK:
Because this writing course is a planned sequence of writing, you must write all of the
assignments to pass the course, and you must write them within the schedule of the
course—not in the last few days of the summer term after you have fallen behind. If you
fail to submit work when it is due, you will receive an email from me reminding you of
these requirements. The email will specify the new due date by which you must submit
the late work. If you fail to submit at least a substantial draft of the piece of writing by
this new due date, you are eligible to be excluded from the course or failed. Please note
that all graded assignments that you turn in late (on the new date that you have arranged
with me) will be lowered by a ⅓ of letter grade for every day that it is late.

PEER REVIEW REQUIREMENT:


You will regularly use our class site to comment on your peers’ work. Before you submit
your final versions of longer essays, you will also participate in peer review workshops. I
expect you to be prepared for this workshop. Before coming to class on peer review day,

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upload a copy of your draft to our class site’s “Peer Review” section.

PAPER FORMATTING:
All papers and assignments must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced,
with one-inch margins on all sides. Make sure to include your name, the course name,
and the date in the upper-left corner of the first page. If you have more than one page,
page numbers and your last name should appear in the upper right hand corner of all
pages. Finally, make sure to include a creative title, centered, on your first page.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION AND ASSESSMENT OF PAPERS:


You are required to submit your papers and assignments electronically through our
course site by uploading an electronic copy of your work to the “Assignments” section.
Please use the following convention to name your uploaded assignments:
LastName_AssignmentName.doc. Here’s what my first Response Paper would
look like: Gulesserian_Response1.1.doc. I will comment on your assignments using
Word—these edited documents will be uploaded to our course site. Make sure to check
my comments to improve your next paper!

EMAIL COMMUNICATION:
Email is an official means of communication at the Summer School, and I will use this
medium to communicate class information. Please check your Summer School email
account on a daily basis. Though email is our main means of communication
outside the classroom, please allow me at least a 24-hour turnaround time for
replies.

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES:
The Summer School is committed to providing an accessible academic community. The
Accessibility Office offers a variety of accommodations and services to students with
documented disabilities. Please visit http://www.summer.harvard.edu/resources-
policies/accessibility-services for more information.

HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL WRITING CENTER:


I strongly encourage you to use the Writing Center at 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center,
Garden Level, Room 019. The Writing Center offers free, individualized, expert help with
writing for any summer school student with any writing project. Their services are not
just for writing with “problems.” Getting feedback from an informed audience is a
normal part of a successful writing project. Just remember that the Writing Center can
help you at all stages of writing, from brainstorming and drafting to the final product.
Make an appointment at https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu.
If you do not live near the Harvard campus: When booking your appointment, please
make sure to indicate that you are a distance learner by writing “online” or “Zoom” in the
topic box of the appointment form. The Writing Center will email you a link to a Zoom
room before your appointment. At the same time, please also email your paper to the
Writing Center at dcewriting@gmail.com.

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COURSE SCHEDULE:
Readings and in-class activities are subject to change with notice on our class site’s “Course Schedule” page.
Please check this page for the most up-to-date version of the course schedule. Assignment due dates are not
subject to change without prior notice in class.

How to use and read this schedule:


v All assignments are due on our class site (as a .doc or .docx file) by 6:30 pm on the date listed, excepting
Saturday due dates (due by noon).
v All readings are due on the date listed; I expect you to have completed all reading assignments before
the beginning of class.
v All reading assignments refer to our course’s required books, except for those readings provided as PDFs
on our class site.

DATE IN-CLASS ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENTS/READINGS DUE

Introduction
Course Policies
Canvas Course Site Tutorial
Zoom Troubleshooting
Tu 6/23 In-Class Close Reading / Writing None! We just started!
Assessment
Close Reading Tutorial with Transatlantic
Slavery Poetry (with Lucille Clifton)
Response Paper 1.1 Guidelines

Read Syllabus
Complete two tutorials on using sources:
• “Using Sources, Five Scenarios”
• “Using Sources, Five Examples”
Read Janet E. Gardner’s “Asking Questions of
the Text” (pages 14-15)
Academic Argument Discussion Read Mortimer J. Adler’s “How to Mark a
Response Paper 1.2 Guidelines Book”
Th 6/25
Essay 1 Guidelines Read “Close Reading of a Literary Passage”
Discussion of Lose Your Mother Read “Elements of Academic Argument”
Read Katherine O. Acheson’s “The Purpose of
an Essay about Literature”
Read Katherine O. Acheson’s “Research in the
Text”
Read Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother
DUE: Response Paper 1.1

Sa 6/27 NO CLASS DUE: Response Paper 1.2

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Read Janet E. Gardner’s “The Explication
Essay” (pages 60-63)
Read Janet E. Gardner’s “Sample Paper: An
Explication” (pages 111-114)
Read Janet E. Gardner’s “Writing about
Close Reading Essay Models Stories” (pages 76-79)
Paragraphs and Organization Read Janet E. Gardner’s “Writing about
Tu 6/30 Poems” (pages 100-106)
Peer Review Guidelines
Peer Review Workshop Read Edgar V. Roberts’s “The Close Reading
Paper”
Read Janet E. Gardner’s “Peer Editing and
Workshops” (pages 42-44)
DUE: upload your peer review work to our
class site’s “Peer Review” section

Read Janet E. Gardner’s “The Writing Process”


Self-Directed Revision Strategies (pages 25-33)
More Peer Review Read Janet E. Gardner’s “Tips for Writing
Introduction to Armenian Genocide with 60 about Literature” (pages 44-50)
Th 7/2
Minutes Read Katherine O. Acheson’s “Editing and
Reading Guide to Three Apples Fell from Proofreading Your Essay”
Heaven Begin reading Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s
Three Apples Fell from Heaven: pages 1-97

Su 7/5 NO CLASS DUE: Essay 1 Draft

Sign up for a personal conference with Lisa on


Calendly
Sign up for a Writing Center appointment
Discuss “Andranik” Read Janet E. Gardner's “Revising and Editing”
Tu 7/7 (pages 36-41)
Response Paper 2.1 Guidelines
Read Susan Barba’s “Andranik”
Read Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Three
Apples Fell from Heaven: pages 98-145

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Read Janet E. Gardner's “Comparison and
Contrast Essays” (pages 67-70)
Read Janet E. Gardner's “Sample Paper: An
Initial Discussion of Three Apples Fell from Essay that Compares and Contrasts” (pages
Heaven 96-99)
Th 7/9 Response Paper 2.2 Guidelines Read Edgar V. Roberts’s “Writing Essays of
Essay 2 Guidelines Comparison-Contrast and Extended
Comparison Contrast Essay Models Comparison Contrast”
Read Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Three
Apples Fell from Heaven: pages 145-184
DUE: Response Paper 2.1

Sa 7/11 NO CLASS DUE: Essay 1 Final

Sign up for a personal conference with Lisa on


Calendly
Sign up for a Writing Center appointment
Tu 7/14 Discuss Three Apples Fell from Heaven
Finish Three Apples Fell from Heaven: pages 184-
270
DUE: Response Paper 2.2

Discuss Three Apples Fell from Heaven DUE: upload your peer review work to our
Th 7/16 class site’s “Peer Review” section
Peer Review Workshop

Sa 7/18 NO CLASS DUE: Essay 2 Draft

Paper 3 Guidelines
Response Paper 3.1 Guidelines Read Marianne Hirsch’s “The Generation of
Scholarly Sources Postmemory”
Research Workshop: how to find literary Read Steven Lynn’s Texts and Contexts
analysis articles with Harvard Libraries
Read Janet E. Gardner’s “Literary Criticism
Tu 7/21 Secondary Sources and Research Group
and Literary Theory” (pages 170-183)
Work
Summarizing Secondary Sources: with They Read Katherine O. Acheson’s “Research about
Say, I Say the Current Critical Assessment of Literary
Discuss Texts and Contexts Works”
Discuss Postmemory

Literary Research Essay Models Read “Graphic Novel Vocabulary”


Response Paper 3.2 Guidelines Read Art Spiegelman’s Maus (Volume I) in its
Graphic Novel Analysis Overview entirety: pages 1-159
Th 7/23
Rebuttal Arguments Read articles from your research of your
Putting Rebuttals to Work with Hirsch choosing
Initial Discussion of Maus DUE: Response Paper 3.1

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Sa 7/25 NO CLASS DUE: Essay 2 Final

Read articles from your research of your


choosing
Essay 3 Worksheet
Tu 7/28 Read Art Spiegelman’s Maus (Volume II) in its
Discuss Maus
entirety: pages 1-136
DUE: Response Paper 3.2

Sign up for a personal conference with Lisa on


Discuss Maus Calendly
Peer Review Workshop
Th 7/30 Sign up for a Writing Center appointment
Course Evaluations
Course Wrap-Up Discussion DUE: upload your peer review work to our
class site’s “Peer Review” section

Sa 8/1 NO CLASS DUE: Essay 3 Draft

Tu 8/4 Individual conferences with me Individual conferences with me

Fri 8/7 NO CLASS DUE: Essay 3 Final

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