Reading -- Personal Essay Why I Write - Joan Didion Why I became an architect, part 1 - Lebbeus Woods Why I Became an architect, part 2 - Lebbeus Woods On Writing Shitty First Drafts - Anne Lamott I design with words - Eli Madden Outlining/Structure Structure - John McPhee Meeting a request for advice on outlines Studio Practice 9: Destroy Habit, Synthesize Knowledge and Take Action - Elliott Earles Essay The Five-Paragaph Essay - David Labaree On the future of the American Essay - Tobias Carroll What Makes an Essay American? - Vinson Cunningham Energy and Rue - Brian Dillon Poetry Poetry in Action: Six contemporary poets share the process behind their poems Newspaper Blackout Poems - Austin Kleon The Sunday Poem - Mary Ruefle The Tree of Codes - Jonathan Safron-Foer Sweethearts - Emmett Williams Design/Typography The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan The Shape of Words - Bruno Munari Electric Information Age - Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michael Writing and Design If You Are Writing an Essay or Thesis - Chappell Ellison Now in Color - James Langdon Writing as a design discipline - David Oswald and Christiane Wachsmann Writing is design's unicorn skill - Katharine Schwab Writing is Design, too - Alice Twemlow and Steven Heller Designers Who Play With Words - Melody Quintana Criticism What Do We Want From Design Criticism - Jarrett Fuller Tense Relations - Rob Giampietro Writing about Architecture - Alexandra Lange What is this thing called graphic design criticism? - Michael Rock and Rick Poynor Design Discourse is in a state of arrested development - Khoi Vinh Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism - Sara M. Watson On reading Reading Effectively - Shannon Mettern The Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem Recommended Books Six Memos for the Next Millennium - Italo Calvino The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell On Writing - Stephen King Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott Several Short Sentences About Writing - Verlyn Klinkenborg The Elements of Style - William Strunk and E.B. White Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss --