ENG 301 - Creative Nonfiction

The core of this class is the writing workshop, in which students review of one another’s work develops objectivity on their own writing and essential editorial skills. In preparation for drafting each writing assignment, students read and discuss model essays representing such approaches as description, scene-setting, interviewing, analysis, argumentation, story-telling, personal narrative, and art reviewing. At the end of the semester, students craft longer essays on topics of their choice. The course also features attention to style, voice, and key choices that constantly face a working writer.

Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
First-year students require permission of the instructor.
Course may be repeated for credit if taught by two different professors.