Advanced Nonfiction Writing Workshop

Catalog description

This course allows students to develop their habits and skills as critical readers and writers, reading extensively in contemporary nonfiction and writing in a variety of forms. This course is a writing workshop, requiring the production of polished prose for most class meetings, and a continuation of developing the ability to analyze nonfiction prose of all types. Working in a variety of forms, students refine their ability to consider the relationship between form, purpose and audience; working through a number of drafts, students further develop their skills as critical readers and thoughtful, careful writers.