ENG 183 - Creative Non-Fiction

Institution:

Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This workshop, in which students present their original writing and learn how to give and receive feedback on their work, explores nonfiction genres such as biography, autobiography and memoir, travel writing, and journal writing but particular emphasizes the essay and its elastic form governed by an aesthetic and epistemology distinct from traditional academic writing and argument. Academic writing often teaches students to defend assertions through logical appeal and to establish authority by eliminating the word "I." The creative nonfiction essay, on the other hand, relies on the subjectivity of an enquiring persona that tentatively explores questions and ideas. In this class, we will consider the value of this latter sensibility and how to cultivate it in our writing as well as the history that enabled and the theory that explains this genre. We will also give attention to the role/form of creative nonfiction in the evolving Web 2.0 environment. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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