{"id":415,"date":"2013-10-11T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=415"},"modified":"2013-10-11T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:11:28","slug":"not-poetry-david-foster-wallaces-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Not Poetry: David Foster Wallace&#8217;s Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.openculture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Wallace_Syllabus_001_large.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">English 102 &#8211; Literary Analysis 1: Prose Fiction<\/p><\/div>\n<p>UT-Austin houses the archives of author and teacher David Foster Wallace. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.utexas.edu\/press\/releases\/2010\/dfw\/teaching\/\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;ve made public<\/a> some of his teaching materials from Illinois State University, including a syllabus and marked up copies of the texts he taught. The files are a bit small so it&#8217;s a little difficult to read, but I love the conversational tone of the syllabus &#8211; far more interesting than any syllabus I ever read or composed myself. There are a number of interesting lines. I&#8217;m struck by the emphasis on reading each text twice, &#8220;All reading assignments are two for one&#8221;. Perhaps my favorite: &#8220;Handwritten corrections on typed work (stuffed crossed out, added, words respelled) are not only accepted but encouraged, since they&#8217;re usually signs of sedulous proofreading. Better right than neat (as long as its readable).&#8221; If I were to go back into teaching I would have to at least try that rule out to see what results it brought.<\/p>\n<p>Link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/02\/david_foster_wallaces_1994_syllabus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Open Culture<\/a> where Josh Jones provides some of his thoughts on the materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT-Austin houses the archives of author and teacher David Foster Wallace. They&#8217;ve made public some of his teaching materials from Illinois State University, including a syllabus and marked up copies of the texts he taught. The files are a bit small so it&#8217;s a little difficult to read, but I love the conversational tone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-poetry","tag-david-foster-wallace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}