English 290 - WRITING ESSAYS NEW YORKER STYL

A writer's workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing, and critiquing. Admission by permission of the instructor. Organized as a writers' workshop, this course is designed to encourage students already proficient in writing to view their own and others' essays as works of art. Correctness in spelling, grammar, and punctuation will be assumed from the beginning. Much emphasis will be placed on the development of each student's personal voice and on the ripening of her own particular talents. Though the atmosphere of the meetings will no doubt be serious and intense, the instructor expects that the students will learn to have fun with words, that they will enjoy a greater sense of ease with writing as they come to realize that it is a process under their control and subject to their choices. Sample should be in prose, not verse. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor.

Writing Sample Required.