Memoir & Research as Writing's Motivation

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In this course, you will explore writing projects that begin with the first-person "I" as a point of departure for creative and capaciously researched composing projects that, ultimately, exceed the first-person perspective. Beginning with first-person experiences, you will develop a research agenda that will further inspire and compel your investments in this course's project. (For authors who do this type of writing, think of Claudia Rankine, Cherrie Moraga, Carmen Kynard, Allison Bechdel, or Alisse Waterston.) By using combined methods of self-exploratory writing, primary/secondary source research, and analytic introspection, students will produce writing projects that inter-navigate hybrid forms of creative and academic writing.