This page will be updated over the course of the semester.
General course resources
- Course reserve readings (via Canvas)
- Supplementary materials
for the Kaplan (2016) textbook
- VassarStats statistics resources, by Richard Lowry
Writing for an audience
- "Audience" handout, from the UNC Writing Center
Kaplan Ch 1 | On myths, science, and trust
- Podcast - Naomi Oreskes on "Why should we believe in science?" (TED Radio Hour; 0:30-2:10 | transcript available at same link)
Kaplan Ch 2 | On dialects and language diversity
- Video - "Hark the Sound of Dialect Diversity"
(dialect diversity at UNC-CH)
- Materials related to the Oakland school board resolution on "Ebonics"
- The full text of the 1996 Oakland school board resolution, plus amendments | Journal of English Linguistics 26(2): 170-172, June 1998
- The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) resolution on the "Ebonics" issue (1997)
- A collection of writings on the Oakland "Ebonics" controversy, written and/or compiled by John Rickford, Stanford U. (1996--)
- NYU linguist John McWhorter writing on the fictional use of Black English in the novel James