Overview
Description
Advanced workshop in creative nonfiction. Students will write in various nonfiction forms, including personal narrative, literary profile, memoir, research-based first-person essays and lyric essays. Students will study individual works by established writers, considering questions of style, form, exploring ethical and aesthetic questions particular to creative nonfiction. Students will be expected to produce essays of high quality, demonstrating evidence of significant revision.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate skill in manipulation of elements of nonfiction craft and technique, both in composition and revision.
- analyze and describe their own and others’ nonfiction, via written and oral discussion, within the context of historical trends/movements and genres in fiction.
- demonstrate the ability to write successfully using one or more commonly-used forms of CNF: the memoir, the researched narrative essay, the lyric essay, and so on.