Course+Syllabus


 * Creative Nonfiction Workshop 3372 Dr. Stephanie Vanderslice **
 * 10:50-12:05 Thompson Hall 101 CRN 2379 **
 * Office Hours: TTh 12:15-1:15, 4-5, F 1-3 and by appointment **
 * Office: Thompson Hall 336 __Phone__: 450-3340 email: **stephv@uca.edu
 * (email is the best way to reach me) **
 * My blog: **[|www.wordamour.wordpress.com]
 * CLASS WIKI: **creativenonfictionworkshopspring12.wikispaces.com

Ellis, Sherri. //Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers//. New York: Penguin/Tarcher, 2009. Kramer, Mark W. and Wendy Call. //Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide//. New York: Penguin/Plume, 2007.
 * Class Texts: **

//Writers on Creative Nonfiction //

//The word “creative” refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction. Lee Gutkind //

//Creative nonfiction--what is it? It's my favorite __form__ for writing. You research a topic just as a journalist does, but you have all the artistic freedom of a fiction writer--not in regard to the truth, but in the way you construct the story. The goal is to communicate information, just as a reporter does, but using tools fiction writers rely on: literary patterns, themes, and shapes. //

[|//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxkDOOQ6D7o//]//<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> Dinty Moore //

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">So you’ve explored the multifaceted world of creative nonfiction in forms. Are you ready to dig a little deeper? I hope so, because Creative Nonfiction Workshop is the place where we’ll focus more intensely on this genre’s craft and on what you want to accomplish with it. We’ll also look closely at the work of other nonfiction writers and dissect their approach to craft. We’ll also do a lot of nonfiction writing—in class and out.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Course Assignments: <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> Point Value <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">First Essay 200 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Second Essay 200 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Portfolio (includes Portfolio Proposal) 300 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Workshop Comments 200 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Talking Points 100 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Digital Creative Nonfiction Book Study 200
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">1000 points total **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> A=900 or more points, B=800-899 points, C=700-799 points, D=600 -699 points.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Assignments: A= 90 points, B=80 points, C=70 points, D=60 points, F=50 points (when a grade is worth 200 points, double the grade for point value).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Important: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">All major assignments must be submitted in order to have an opportunity to pass the course.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Any required drafts must be submitted along with the final copy of each paper. Failure to include required drafts will lead to failure of the assignment.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">COURSE NARRATIVE **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Your first course task will be to decide what you want to focus on in this course and how you want to focus on this task in the two essays you’ll work on for the class andon what you read to support this focus. You’ll write about this in your Portfolio Proposal (2-4 pages, typed) where you answer the preceding questions and talk about your goals. You’ll then write and workshop two essays that support these goals (7-10 pages typed), including __cover letters__ (turned in to me only) that describe your process and goals in writing these essays.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">In addition to class discussions, we’ll do a lot of in-class writing. On the days that **//Telling True Stories//** readings are due you should also bring **//Now Write//** and your journal or __laptop__, because we’ll also do focused exercises from that book on those days as well.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">At the end of the semester, you’ll turn in a Portfolio that will not only include drafts of each of these two essays, **//revised//** drafts of these two essays, a copy of the best commentary you wrote and the best commentary you __received__, a copy of your best talking points, and finally a thoughtful, considered essay discussing: how well you realized your goals from the portfolio proposal, what steps you took (outside reading, etc.) to support realizing these goals, and your decisions in revising the pieces included.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">As the class schedule notes, you’ll workshop two essays and provide typed **//commentary//** on the essays of your peers throughout the semester (I will drop the two lowest grades on these so that you’ll have time to learn what I expect). You will create a page on the class wiki where you’ll post the essay **//four days//** before the workshop, to give your classmates plenty of time to read and respond to your work. This means if you are workshopping your essay on a Tuesday, your essay will be posted by 8 am on Friday morning; if you are workshopping your essay on a Thursday, you’ll post your essay by 8 am that Sunday morning. You’ll also write **//talking points//** for every assigned reading in class, due on the day the reading is due. Finally, you’ll select a nonfiction book (from a list I provide) to read and analyze for craft and present a digital discussion of this book (using Prezi or Glogster or another digital form approved by me) to the class.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Celebration is important in the life of the writer, so from 11-1 on Thursday May 3, we’ll have a potluck celebration and a portfolio party. Your portfolios will be returned and you’ll have a chance to look at your classmates work and end the semester with some post-it high fives. I cannot wait to get started!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Classes begin || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Portfolio Proposal Due, Nonfiction Book Title Due || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">ESSAY 1 DUE, COVER LETTERS TOO! <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 9 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 16 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">NO CLASS, ARKATEXT, <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You must attend two events. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 23 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">NO CLASS, ARKATEXT, <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You must attend two events. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 1 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">No Class. Comp Time for Rick Steves || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 8 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 1
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Tuesday **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> **Thursday**
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 17
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 3,6,10,14 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 19 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 24
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">19,22,24,28,30,34,35 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 26
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">39,45,46,48,51,54,55,59 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">January 31
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 97,98,100,103 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 2
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 104,107,109,111,112,116
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 7
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 70,71,73, 86,88,89 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 14
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 125-162 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">February 21
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 6
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telling **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 163-196 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 13 ESSAY 2 DUE, COVER LETTERS TOO!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Mid Term Grades due 14th || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 15 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 2 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Introducing Rick Steves || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 29 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">**Workshops** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 5 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Revision Packet (Available Online on Wiki) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Essay 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 12 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">No Class—Comp Time Fennelly/Franklin <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Arkansas Literary Festival this Weekend!!! || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">No Class || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 19 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">**Workshops** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workshops || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 26 Portfolios Due <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">DIGITAL AUTHOR PRESENTATIONS || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Final Examinations || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 3
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 20 (Spring Break) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 22 (Spring Break) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">March 27
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 3
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">April 24
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">May 1

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Final Examinations <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11-1Portfolio Party ||

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">DIGITAL COMPETENCIES <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Because digital literacy is cross-curricular, digital competencies are the same for each of my classes. They are based on preparing you to live and work in the 21st century and taken from an article in Inside Higher Education ([|www.insidehighered.com]) on skills every college graduate needs to master. While the //content// of your assignments will be centered on reaching the objectives of the individual class, the //forms// these assignments may take will be based on these digital competencies.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">10 Digital Competencies for Every Graduate

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Graduates should be able to. ..

<span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">1.Start a Blog <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Buy an Audio Recorder and Learn to Use It <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Start Editing Audio <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Post an Interview (or Podcast) on Your Blog <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Learn How to Shoot, Crop, Tone, and Optimize Photos (And Add Them to Your Blog) <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Learn to Create Effective Voice-Over Presentations with Rapid Authoring Software <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Tell a Good Story with Images and Sound <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Learn to Shoot Video <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Edit Your Video with iMovie, Windows Movie Maker or Windows Storyteller <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Publish Your Video on Your Blog.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT AND COURSE POLICIES


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Disability Policy: ** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The University of Central Arkansas adheres to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you need an accommodation under this act due to a disability, contact Disability Support Services at 450-3613. They are located in room 212 of the Student Health Center. Please feel free to discuss this issue with your instructor, in private, if you need more information.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Sexual Harassment Policy: ** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Harassment by any faculty member, staff member, or student is a violation of both law and University policy and will not be tolerated. Please read the appropriate pages of your Student Handbook for the policies, definition, and procedures concerning harassment. If you have questions or concerns, please contact your instructor or the chair. Individuals who believe they have been subjected to harassment should report the incident promptly to their academic dean or to a departmental chair or directly to the university’s Affirmative Action officer, legal counsel or assistant vice president for human resources.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Other Policies: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">You should familiarize yourself with all academic policies in your //Student Handbook//.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Special Problems **//<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">: //<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">If, during any point of the semester, you find that personal problems are keeping you from completing your course work, you may find it beneficial to visit the counseling center. All students are entitled to free, confidential, professional counseling. Please contact the University Counseling Center at 450-3138. They are located in the Student Health Center, suite 327.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Attendance **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: If a student in the Department of Writing misses two weeks’ worth of classes—i.e., six classes of a MWF course, four classes of a TTH or MW course, or two classes of a one night a week course—and/or a student in a MWF or TTH class misses a week’s worth of classes consecutively without contacting the instructor, the instructor may drop the student from the course. When dropping a student for non-attendance, the instructor will assign a WF, WP, or W, as appropriate.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plagiarism **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: If a student in a Writing Department course turns in a paper that includes an extended passage that has been a.) written for him or her by someone else for pay or as a favor, or b.) copied from a print or electronic source written by another author, even if some of the words have been changed, that student will immediately be dropped from the course, receiving a WF grade. In addition, notification will be sent from the Writing Department office to the Office of the Provost documenting the student’s academic misconduct. This documentation will be retained permanently at the Office of the Provost.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If a student in a Writing Department course turns in a paper that has borrowed from other sources without giving complete and unambiguous credit to every source (e.g., quotation marks are not included around all direct quotations, in-text citations are missing, the bibliography is missing or incomplete), that paper will receive a grade of 0 (zero). If the instructor deems the plagiarism to be accidental, the instructor may allow the student to revise the paper for a higher grade.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Incompletes **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: It is the policy of the Department of Writing that an incomplete (X grade) may be assigned only under extraordinary circumstances, such as a documented medical emergency, a death in the student’s immediate family, an unavoidable legal responsibility (e.g., jury duty, military service), a natural disaster that has affected the student’s own home or immediate family, or extended university closure. An incomplete grade may also be assigned for courses that extend beyond the regular end of term. However, an incomplete may be assigned only if the student remained in good standing for the first ¾ of the semester.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When assigning an incomplete grade, the instructor should establish a written contract with the student specifying exactly when the missing work must be turned in. However, the student may not turn in the missing work any later than the end of the first month of the following semester—excluding summer. Specifically, any student assigned an X grade for a fall semester class or a winter intercession class may not turn in the missing work any later than the end of the first month of the spring semester. Any student assigned an X grade for a spring semester class, a May intercession class, or a summer term class may not turn in the missing work any later than the end of the first month of the fall semester.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">When dropping a student for disruptive behavior, the instructor will assign a WF grade, specifying on the Drop for Non-Attendance form that the grade is assigned for “disciplinary action.” A record of this disciplinary action will remain permanently on file with the university and the instructor will keep permanent record of dropping the student for disruptive behavior. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Additionally, when dropping a student for disruptive behavior, the instructor is encouraged to submit to the Dean of Students a list of the problematic behaviors.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Disruptive Students **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">: Any student in a Writing Department class whose behavior regularly interferes with the instructor’s ability to conduct the class and foster student learning, or who exhibits a behavior so outrageous as to severely impede the conduct of a class, may be dropped by the instructor after the instructor consults with the department chair. Prior warning will be provided to the student when possible, but under extraordinary circumstances such warning may not always be possible.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Late papers **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">: Assignments, including drafts, are down graded one full grade for each day late (each day not posted on your blog), so an assignment deadline missed on Tuesday would result in a D by Friday.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Inclement weather **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">: If Conway schools are closed for inclement weather, we will not meet but will have an alternative assignment posted to the Wiki. If classes are cancelled you should immediately go to the wiki for instructions.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Academic Integrity **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The University of Central Arkansas affirms its commitment to academic integrity and expects all members of the university community to accept shared responsibility for maintaining academic integrity. Students in this course are subject to the provisions of the university's Academic Integrity Policy, approved by the Board of Trustees as Board Policy No. 709 on February 10, 2010, and published in the Student Handbook. Penalties for academic misconduct in this course may include a failing grade on an assignment, a failing grade in the course, or any other course-related sanction the instructor determinesto be appropriate. Continued enrollment in this course affirms a student's acceptance of this university policy.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Staying on Dr. V’s Good Side
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Stay focused, even with the laptop open. Give your teachers and your colleagues your respect.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Conversely, we will use the phrase “screens down” when we want to emphasize that we want everyone’s full attention. I and your fellow class members expect you to respect this.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Refrain from reading any outside material or doing any outside work from other courses during class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Except in cases of emergency (clear it with me before class, I understand these do arise) turn your cell phone off during class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">If you text in class or look at your cell phone texts, you will lose 10 points each time. If you repeatedly text, I will ask everyone to turn in their cell phones at the beginning of class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Be respectful of other class members. We all bring a range of knowledge, experience and interest to class. Let’s appreciate that.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Refrain from derogatory language or hate commentary. This class has the potential to produce provocative discussions that will make us all better writers but only if we approach it with an attitude of tolerance.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">You may bring drink and/or food, especially if you think it will help you stay awake and alert, particularly if you tend to get drowsy due to the length of the class or the time it meets (but not, of course, the subject matter or delivery J <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">).