golden gate park (fall 2017)

ENVA 195: Golden Gate Park (First-Year Seminar)

Tues & Thurs 9:55–11:40 am, Lo Schiavo Science 303

Professor David Silver (dmsilver [ at ] usfca [ dot ] edu)

Office / hours: Kalmanovitz 141, Tues & Thurs 1–2 pm & by appointment

Golden Gate Park is a First-Year Seminar that explores the history, built environment, mixed uses, and popular narratives of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. As part of an accelerated writing seminar, students will read, research, write, and edit their ways through the park – with formal essays, informal reading responses, and significant contributions to Wikipedia. Through readings, class discussions, walks-in-the-park, and field trips, students will develop a broad and keen appreciation of Golden Gate Park.

 

Student Learning Outcomes

This course fulfills USF’s A2 Core requirement. As such, over the course of the term, you will develop capability in the following areas:

1.     Critical analysis of academic discourse: Students critically analyze linguistic and rhetorical strategies used in long and complex texts from a variety of genres, subjects, and fields. [Met primarily in essays 1 & 2 and in reading responses]

2.     Integrating multiple academic sources: Students incorporate multiple texts of length and complexity within a unified argumentative essay, addressing connections and differences among them. [Met primarily in essays 2 & 3]

3.     Academic research: Students develop sophisticated research questions and compose substantial arguments in response to those questions, incorporating extensive independent library research and demonstrating mastery of standard academic documentation modes. [Met primarily in essay 3 and Wikipedia project]

4.     Style: Students edit their own prose to achieve a clear and mature writing style in keeping with the conventions of academic and/or professional discourse. [Met in all three essays, in reading responses, and in in-class exercises]

5.     Revision: Students develop their own revision strategies for extending and enriching early drafts and for producing polished advanced academic writing. [Met in essays 2 & 3 and in Wikipedia project]

Course Texts and Costs

You are required to purchase Philip J. Dreyfus's Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco. We will begin reading it second week, so please purchase it immediately. All other readings are either free online or emailed PDFs. All field trip costs are covered by USF’s First Year Seminar Program.

Calendar

Week 1

Tuesday, 8/22: Introductions and expectations.

Thursday, 8/24: Read Chris Walker, “The public value of urban parks,” The Urban Institute (2004).

Week 2

Tuesday, 8/29: Read Philip J. Dreyfus, “Coyote’s Children,” from Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco, pp. 11-31.

Thursday, 8/31: Field trip to Golden Gate Park.

Week 3

Tuesday, 9/5: Read Dreyfus, “Urban Genesis,” Our Better Nature, pp. 32-49.

Thursday, 9/7: Read Dreyfus, “Urban Genesis,” Our Better Nature, pp. 50-66.

Week 4

Tuesday, 9/12: Read Dreyfus, “Greening the City,” Our Better Nature, pp. 67-86.

Thursday, 9/14: Read Dreyfus, “Greening the City,” Our Better Nature, pp. 86-101.

Week 5

Tuesday, 9/19: Essay 1 workshop.

Thursday, 9/21: Essay 1 due in class.

Week 6

Tuesday, 9/26: Prior to class, listen/read/walk with Marina McDougall, Alison Sant, Richard Johnson, and Kirstin Bach, “An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park,” a 7-part guided podcast (Studio for Urban Projects, 2008).

Thursday, 9/28: No class.

Week 7

Tuesday, 10/3: Field trip to Golden Gate Park: In search for hidden water with guest lecturer/tour guide Joel Pomerantz, writer, natural history educator, and founder of Thinkwalks.

Thursday, 10/5: Read James R. Smith, “California Midwinter International Exposition – 1894,” from San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks (Word Dancer Press, 2005): pp. 111-126.

Week 8

Tuesday, 10/10: Read Barbara Berglund, “The Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of ‘49”: Identity, History, and Memory at the California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894,” The Public Historian (Fall 2003): pp. 25-49.

Thursday, 10/12: Field/research trip to San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Main Public Library.

Week 9

Tuesday, 10/17: No class: Fall break.

Thursday, 10/19: Essay Two due in class.

Week 10

Tuesday, 10/24: Read Ray Oldenburg, “The Character of Third Places,” from The Great Good Place: Cafes, coffee shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars, hangouts, and how they get you through the day (1989), pp. 20-42.

Thursday, 10/26: Read Robert C. Cottrell, "From the human be-in to the summer of love," in Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture (2015): pp. 195-216.

Week 11

Tuesday, 10/31: Field trip to Golden Gate Park.

Thursday, 11/2: Topic selection workshop.

Week 12

Tuesday, 11/7: Field trip to Golden Gate Park

Thursday, 11/9: Essay Three due in class.

Week 13

Tuesday, 11/14: Read “Golden Gate Park” entry on Wikipedia at least 2-3 times. Read and be ready to discuss both its content (the information it contains) and structure (its outline, components, links, sources, and style).

Thursday, 11/16: Read/complete Wiki Education Foundation, “Online Training for Students.” This includes creating a Wikipedia account and a user page.

Week 14

Tuesday, 11/21: Read “Evaluating Wikipedia,” “Editing Wikipedia,” “Using Talk Pages,” “Citing sources on Wikipedia,” “Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia,” and “Illustrating Wikipedia.”

Thursday, 11/23: No class: Thanksgiving

Week 15

Tuesday, 11/28: Wikipedia workday

Thursday, 11/30: Final Wikipedia contributions due in class.

Week 16

Tuesday, 12/5: Pizza party in the park.

This class has no final.

Grading

Essay 1                                   15

Essay 2                                   20

Essay 3                                   25

Wikipedia Project               20

Reading Responses            10

Class Participation              10

Attendance Policy

Attendance is crucial. Missing class (or attending class unprepared) will significantly affect your final grade. If you do miss class, contact a classmate to find out what you missed and ask to borrow her or his notes. Then, do it again with a different classmate. After doing this, if you have questions email me.

Academic Integrity

Plagiarism is using another person’s words, works, and/or ideas without giving appropriate credit. Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic honor and personal integrity and can result in failing an assignment, being removed from this course, or even being asked to leave USF. Plus, it’s just lazy.

Rules

1. No late work accepted.
2. In class and on field trips, no drinking out of non-reusable containers.

golden gate park syllabus (fall 2015)

MS 195: Golden Gate Park (First-Year Seminar)

Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:55–11:40 am, Education 307

Professor David Silver

Office / hours: Kalmanovitz 141, Tuesdays & Thursdays 2–3 pm & by appointment

Contact: dmsilver [ at ] usfca [ dot ] edu

Golden Gate Park is a First-Year Seminar that explores the history, built environment, mixed uses, and popular narratives of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. As part of an accelerated writing seminar, students will research, write, and edit their ways through the park – writing in journals, using photography, and contributing on Wikipedia. Through readings, class discussions, park walks, and field trips, students will develop a broad and keen appreciation of Golden Gate Park.

Learning Outcomes

In this class, student will

1.    Learn how to read, analyze, and summarize multiple texts of varying lengths and complexities;

2.    Learn, practice, and become confident with the process of inquiry: identifying a topic, posing good questions, researching, evaluating, analyzing, synthesizing, and creating new knowledge;

3.    Learn how to search for, locate, evaluate, and use information;

4.    Learn how to put one’s scholarship in conversation and collaboration with other people; and

5.    Learn and appreciate how some sand dunes called the Outside Lands became Golden Gate Park.

Course Texts and Costs

1.    There are no required books to purchase for this class. All readings are either free and online or sent to you as PDFs. You are, however, required to print out all readings and bring printout to class.

2.    You also must purchase/make/barter for a journal and bring it to class on Tuesday, September 1. Be sure to spend some time to find the right journal.

3.    You are also required to purchase a map of Golden Gate Park. Maps range from $4-5 and can be bought at various gift stores located across the park.

4.    All admission fees and field trip costs are covered by USF’s First Year Seminar Program.

Calendar

Week 1:

Tuesday, 8/25: Introductions and expectations.

Thursday, 8/27: Read Chris Walker, “The public value of urban parks,” The Urban Institute (2004); and Project for Public Spaces, “Signature places: Great parks we can learn from” (March 14, 2014).

Unit 1: Approaches to Golden Gate Park

Week 2:

Tuesday, 9/1: Journal assignment due in class. Read “Golden Gate Park” entry on Wikipedia at least 2-3 times. Read and be ready to discuss both its content (the information it contains) and structure (its outline, components, links, sources, and style).

Thursday, 9/3: Read Raymond H. Clary, “The Beginning of Golden Gate Park” and “The Visionary Plan of William Hammond Hall,” from Making of Golden Gate Park: The Early Years: 1865-1906 (1980), pp. 11-27. Park walk.

Week 3:

Tuesday, 9/8: Journals due in class. Read/complete Wiki Education Foundation, “Online Training for Students.” This includes creating a Wikipedia account and a user page.

Thursday, 9/10: Read Ray Oldenburg, “The Character of Third Places,” from The Great Good Place: Cafes, coffee shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars, hangouts, and how they get you through the day (1989), pp. 20-42. Park walk.

Week 4:

Tuesday, 9/15: Journals due in class. Read “Editing Wikipedia” and “Using Talk Pages.”

Thursday, 9/17: Read Dolores Hayden, “Contested Terrain,” from The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (1995), pp. 2-13.

Unit 2: A museum, a memorial, and a tea garden

Week 5:

Tuesday, 9/22: No class. Time pooled for later-in-the-semester evening field trip to Off the Grid.

Thursday, 9/24: Read “California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894” entry on Wikipedia; and James R. Smith, “California Midwinter International Exposition – 1894,” in San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks (2005), pp. 111-126. Field trip to the Music Concourse.

Week 6:

Tuesday, 9/29: Journals due in class. Read “Citing sources on Wikipedia” and “Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia.”

Thursday, 10/1: Park walk and workshop with Barbara Fister, librarian at Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Week 7:

Tuesday, 10/6: Journals due in class. Read “Illustrating Wikipedia.” Field trip to de Young Museum and de Young Café.

Thursday, 10/8: Read “AIDS Memorial Grove” entry on Wikipedia; and watch Andy Abrahams Wilson and Tom Shepard, The Grove: AIDS and the Politics of Remembrance (DVD), 2011.

Week 8:

Tuesday, 10/13 Journals due in class. Read “Evaluating Wikipedia” and “Moving out of your Sandbox.”

Thursday, 10/15: Read class-sourced readings on AIDS and AIDS in San Francisco. Field trip to National AIDS Memorial Grove.

Week 9:

Tuesday, 10/20: No class: Fall Break.

Thursday, 10/22: Read class-sourced readings about Japanese Zen gardens and San Francisco’s Japanese Tea Garden.

Week 10:

Tuesday, 10/27: Journals due in class. Read “Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco, California)” entry on Wikipedia.

Thursday, 10/29: Field trip to Japanese Tea Garden and Tea House.

Unit 3: Writing Golden Gate Park (with objects other than words)

Week 11:

Tuesday, 11/3: Journals due in class. Read “Human Be-In,” “Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival,” and “Hardly Strictly Bluegrass” entries on Wikipedia. Read Project for Public Spaces, “10 Tips for Taking Great Photos of Public Spaces.”

Thursday, 11/5: Prior to class, listen/read/walk with Marina McDougall, Alison Sant, Richard Johnson, and Kirstin Bach, “An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park,” a 7-part guided podcast (Studio for Urban Projects, 2008): http://www.anunnaturalhistory.net/podcast.xml

Week 12:

Tuesday, 11/10: Journals due in class. Prior to class, add 1-2 sentences of new information, backed up with an appropriate citation, to a Golden Gate Park-related article on Wikipedia.

Thursday, 11/12: Read William H. Whyte, “Food,” from The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (pp. 50-53). Evening field trip to Off the Grid.

Unit 4: Writing on Wikipedia

The last unit involves editing and adding to existing Wikipedia pages related to Golden Gate Park and/or creating new ones. Time management warning: You will be spending significant out-of-class time researching, reading, writing, and editing. Class-time will be spent on group work, reviewing and improving your classmates’ Wikipedia contributions, and visits from Wiki Education Foundation staff.

Week 13:

Tuesday, 11/17: Journals due in class. Begin work on individual and group Wikipedia projects.

Thursday, 11/19: Continue work on Wikipedia projects.

Week 14:

Tuesday, 11/24: Journals due in class. Wikipedia projects, con’t. Field trip to the Downtown SF Public Library.

Thursday, 11/26: No class: Thanksgiving.

Week 15:

Tuesday, 12/1: Journals due in class. Wikipedia projects, con’t.

Thursday, 12/3: Complete individual and group Wikipedia projects.

Week 16:

Tuesday, 12/8: Reflective essay due in class. Field trip to Haight Ashbury, Escape From New York Pizza, and the Children’s Playground.

Projects and Grading

Participation – 20%. Participation includes regular, on-time class attendance; useful and frequent contributions to classroom discussions; and quizzes, homework, and in-class assignments.

Student Journals – 30%. Journals are due in class each Tuesday and I will return them on Thursdays. Journal entries will range from informal reflections to research findings to polished essays, with sketches, doodles, and collages in between.

Wikipedia Project – 30%. Working individually and in groups, students will contribute to existing Wikipedia pages related to Golden Gate Park. In some cases this will include adding a single sentence and source, in other cases it will include adding a new paragraph, section, and, if necessary, page.

Field Trip Tour Guide – 10%. We will take multiple field trips into Golden Gate Park. During each field trip, a small group of students will work together to research our pathways and destination and share their findings creatively.

Reflective Essay – 10%. Finally, students will reflect upon and write a short essay about their experiences with Golden Gate Park, Wikipedia, and their first semester at USF.

Attendance Policy

Attendance is crucial. Missing class (or attending class unprepared) will significantly affect your final grade. If you do miss class, contact a classmate to find out what you missed and ask to borrow her or his notes. Then, do it again with a different classmate. After doing this, if you still have questions about missed material, visit me during office hours or schedule an appointment via email.

Academic Integrity

Plagiarism is using another person’s words works, and/or ideas without giving appropriate credit.  Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic honor and personal integrity and can result in failing an assignment, being removed from this course, or even being asked to leave USF. Plus, it’s just lazy.

Rules

1. No late work accepted.
2. In class and on field trips, no drinking out of non-reusable containers.

twitter assignment

twitter assignment for golden gate park first-year seminar and making food, making media class:

1. if you have not yet joined twitter, join twitter.

2. create a profile. you are not required to use your real name in your profile but you certainly can.

3. make your profile public. if you already have a twitter account that is private and wish to keep it that way, create a new account for this class.

4. find and follow all members (students and professor) of our class.

5. if you're in golden gate park class, also follow @GoldenGatePark, @GleesonLibrary, @itweetUSF, and @usfca. if you're in making food, making media, also follow @USFSeedLibrary, @GleesonLibrary, @itweetUSF, and @usfca.

6. get into the habit of checking twitter at least once a day.

golden gate park (spring 2015)

MS 195: Golden Gate Park (First-Year Seminar)

Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:55–11:40 am, Kalmanovitz 167

Professor David Silver

Office/hours: Kalmanovitz 141, Tuesdays & Thursdays 2–3:00 pm & by appointment

Contact: dmsilver [ at ] usfca [ dot ] edu

Golden Gate Park is a First-Year Seminar that explores the history, built environment, mixed uses, and popular narratives of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Through readings, class discussions, and library workshops, students will develop a broad and keen understanding of the park; through field trips and park walks, students will gain valuable on-site experience in and with the park. An accelerated writing seminar, Golden Gate Park fulfills USF’s Core A2 requirement.

Learning Outcomes

In this class, students will learn:

1. How to read, analyze, and summarize multiple texts of varying lengths and complexities; 
2. How to develop interesting research questions based on extensive research and individual interests; 
3. How to use both library and online tools to find relevant material from a range of sources and disciplines; 
4. How to write, edit, revise, and polish clear and compelling essays that, when necessary, keep with the conventions of academic writing; and 
5. How some sand dunes called the Outside Lands became Golden Gate Park.

 

Required Text

You are required to purchase a map of Golden Gate Park. The map, which costs between $2-3, can be found at the gift shops of the De Young Museum and the Botanical Garden.

All readings will be made available for free – online, outside my office, or via Gleeson Library. Until notified otherwise, students are required to print out readings, which can be done inexpensively at Gleeson Library.

Course Schedule

Cluster 1: Golden Gate Park and its many uses

Tuesday, 1/27: Introductions

Thursday, 1/29: Read: Gary Kamiya’s “The Park,” from Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco (Bloomsbury, 2013): pp. 202-207.

Tuesday, 2/3: Field trip to Golden Gate Park

Thursday, 2/5: Read: Terence Young, “Romantic Golden Gate Park,” from Building San Francisco’s Parks, 1850-1930 (John Hopkins University Press, 2004): pp. 70-97.

Tuesday, 2/10: Prior to class, listen/read/walk with: Marina McDougall, Alison Sant, Richard Johnson, and Kirstin Bach, “An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park,” a 7-part guided podcast (Studio for Urban Projects, 2008): http://www.anunnaturalhistory.net/podcast.xml

Thursday, 2/12: Read: Philip J. Dreyfus, “Greening the City,” from Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008): pp. 67-100.

Tuesday, 2/17: In-class writing workshop.

Thursday, 2/19: Paper 1 due in class.

Cluster 2: California Midwinter International Exposition

Tuesday, 2/24: Read: James R. Smith, “California Midwinter International Exposition – 1894,” from San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks (Word Dancer Press, 2005): pp. 111-126; and Mae Silver, “1894 Midwinter Fair: Women artists, an appreciation,” FoundSF (March 17, 1994): http://bit.ly/1EscQKv

Thursday, 2/26: Library workshop with Gleeson librarians Joe Garity, Sherise Kimura, and Carol Spector.

Tuesday, 3/3: Read: Barbara Berglund, “The Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of ‘49”: Identity, History, and Memory at the California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894,” The Public Historian (Fall 2003): pp. 25-49.

Thursday, 3/5: Read: Kendall H. Brown, “Rashômon: The multiple histories of the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park," Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (April-June 1998): pp 93-119.

Tuesday: 3/10: Field trip (with Shawn Calhoun, Gleeson Library) to Music Concourse and the Japanese Tea Garden.

Thursday, 3/12: Paper 2 due in class.

SPRING BREAK (March 16-20)

Cluster 3: Playland Pop-Up

Tuesday, 3/24: Read: Selections from James R. Smith, San Francisco’s Playland at the Beach: The early years (Craven Street Books, 2010).

Thursday, 3/26: Read: Selections from James R. Smith, San Francisco’s Playland at the Beach: The golden years (Craven Street Books, 2013).

Tuesday, 3/31: Field trip to the de Young Museum.

Thursday, 4/2: Guests: Marjorie Schwarzer, administrative director of USF's graduate museum studies program, and Glori Simmons, director of USF's Thacher Gallery.

Tuesday, 4/7: Pop-up workshop. Class meets in Thacher Gallery.

Thursday, 4/9: Guest: Anne-Marie Deitering, Franklin A. McEdward Professor for Undergraduate Learning Initiatives, Oregon State University. From 12-1 pm: Playland Pop-Up in USF's Thacher Gallery.

Cluster 4: The Park and You

Tuesday, 4/14: Read: Gary Kamiya’s “If you were a Bird,” from Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco (Bloomsbury, 2013): pp. 312-317; and selected readings/media about the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park.

Thursday, 4/16: Read: Selected readings on The Diggers. Guest: Morgan Fitzgibbons, Environmental Studies, USF and member of the Wigg Party. Class meets at the panhandle.

Tuesday, 4/21: Read: Class-sourced readings about Soup Kitchens in Golden Gate Park during the 1906 Earthquake and Victory Gardens during WWI and WWII.

Thursday, 4/23: NO CLASS. Instead, we meet that evening at Off the Grid http://offthegridsf.com, at Stanyan and Waller, for dinner.

Tuesday, 4/28: Read: Jacqueline Hoefer, “Ruth Asawa: A Working Life,” in The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air, edited by Daniell Cornell, pp. 10-29.

Thursday, 4/30: Read: Josh Sides, “The Unspoken Sexuality of Golden Gate Park,” in Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco, pp. 123-140.

Tuesday, 5/5: Student Presentations in the Park

Thursday, 5/7: Student Presentations in the Park (continued)

Tuesday, 5/12: Class party in the park

Thursday, 5/14: Final Project due in class

There is no final exam in this class.

Grading

10%   Homework, in-class assignments, and quizzes

10%   Class/field trip participation

20%   Paper 1

20%   Paper 2

20%   Playland Pop-Up Project

20%   The Park and You Project

Attendance Policy

Missing class, or attending class unprepared, will significantly affect your final grade. If you do miss class, contact a classmate to find out what we discussed in class and ask to borrow her or his notes. Then, do the same with a second classmate. After doing this, if you still have questions about missed material, visit me during office hours or email me.

Academic Integrity

Plagiarism is using another person’s words and/or ideas without giving appropriate credit.  Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic honor and personal integrity and can result in failing an assignment, being removed from this course, or even being asked to leave USF.

Rules

1. No late work accepted. 
2. In class and on field trips, no drinking out of non-reusable containers.

homework assignment for golden gate park first-year seminar

Homework assignment for Golden Gate Park first-year seminar

Last week, we read the preface and two chapters of Gary Kamiya's Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. In one of the chapters, we learned that the Human Be-In took place in Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967.

For class on Tuesday, please research some element of the Human Be-In and be ready to share your findings in class. Also, please tweet your findings, or a portion of your findings, prior to class. Be sure to use our class hashtag #fysggp in your tweet.

Finally, bring a typed draft of your paper one - at least one page, more if you got it - to class and be ready to share it with classmates.

twitter assignment

twitter assignment for golden gate park first-year seminar students:

1. if you have not yet joined twitter, join twitter.

2. create a profile. you are not required to use your real name in your profile but you certainly can.

3. make your profile public. if you already have a twitter account that is private and wish to keep it that way, create a new account for this class.

4. find and follow all members (students and professor) of our class.

5. also follow @GoldenGatePark, @GleesonLibrary, @itweetUSF, and @usfca.

6. get into the habit of checking twitter at least once a day.

paper 1 for golden gate park first-year seminar

Paper 1 for Golden Gate Park

1. For the last five weeks, we have been reading about, discussing, and visiting Golden Gate Park. We have learned about the park's history and early hurdles, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, and the Japanese Tea Garden. We have taken field trips to the Horseshoe Pits, The Conservatory of Flowers, the de Young Tower, the Fuchsia Dell, and the Japanese Tea Garden.

 
2. Now it's time to write. Select an aspect about the history of Golden Gate Park, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, or the Japanese Tea Garden. Write a 3-4 page, typed, and double-spaced paper about it.

3. In your paper, you must use three sources. Two of these sources must be readings assigned in class. The third source must come from you.

4. Think a bit about that third source. Do not select the first one you find. Do not select one that does not interest you. Take some time with this third source.

5. What I am looking for more than anything in this paper is your ability to summarize and quote from readings. In other words, I am looking for your successful application of the ideas found in Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein's chapters, "'Her Point Is': The Art of Summarizing" and "'As He Himself Puts It': The Art of Quoting," both found in They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing.

6. Pro tip: Although you will have plenty of opportunities this semester to explore creatively and in depth the past, present, and future of Golden Gate Park, the purpose of this paper is less about the park and more about highlighting your understanding and mastery of the writing moves discussed in They Say/I Say.

7. I expect and require you to thoroughly edit your paper. If I find three or more errors - spelling, grammar - I will stop reading your paper, return it to you, and ask you to re-edit and re-submit. When editing your paper, please consider reading it out loud. Also, consider swapping your paper with another student or students and edit each others' work.

8. It is extremely important to follow directions. Please consider reading this paper assignment a second time. Go crazy and read it a third time.

9. Paper 1 is due in class on Thursday, March 6. No late work accepted.