English 291 - LAKES WORKSHOP: THE OTHER

An intermediate-level workshop in which writers develop their skills through intensive reading, writing, revising, and critique. Emphasis on narrative writing, broadly defined to include a variety of genres, depending on the interests of the current holder of the Lakes writing residency. Topic changes annually.: This course aims to strengthen students' relationship to their own curiosity in the world around them and to equip them with practical, ethical tools to fully engage that curiosity and to render their discoveries in engaging, literary, nonfiction prose. We will consider how to make contact with others whose experiences may be very different from our own, how to respectfully conduct reporterly research; how to listen; how to sustain connection; how to transcribe "data" in order to truthfully convey the meaning of the lives that you are learning about; and how to develop one's ear for "narrative." Writing sample required. Contact jroberts@smith.edu for details.

Writing Sample Required.