ENGL162 - Writing Creative Nonfiction

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Academic Year 2003/2004

Writing Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 162 FA

This course offers practice in a variety of nonfiction forms, including the narrative essay, profile, and memoir. Students are invited to write nonfiction narratives, profiles, memoir, family sketches, reviews, commentary, travel pieces, or other forms of literary nonfiction, shaping the assignments to suit their own interests. The readings serve as models for these exercises, suggesting a range of designs and voices the student writer might try.

MAJOR READINGS

Readings include selections from BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING, and BEST...SCIENCE WRITING and pieces by such writers as Annie Dillard, George Orwell, Joan Didion, Philip Gourevitch, William Finnegan, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Fadiman, Chang-rae Lee, Pico Iyer, and W.G. Sebald.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly writing assignments.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

The course meets twice a week. One meeting is devoted to discussion of the readings and to questions of form and style. In the second meeting, students work in small groups and edit work-in-progress.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Greene,Anne F.

Times: ..T.R.. 09:00AM-10:20AM; Location: FISK210

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 27)

SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 2

SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 5 SO: 10 FR: X

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Writing

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004