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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Travel writing has a long and impressive history. This course will help writers to know that history and become part of it. The genre of travel writing, beginning with writers like Herodotus and Marco Polo has appealed to a wide range of fine writers, including Mary Montagu, James Boswell, Charles Darwin, Evelyn Waugh, Jan Morris, and Paul Theroux. In addition to reading such writers, students will compose their own travel essays based on travel experiences. Their descriptions of new experiences and sites may be heightened by irony, humor, cultural meditation, and a sense of a "mind in motion" that pushes toward larger meanings- ethical, political, and personal. Prerequisite: WRIT 221 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
This course will ask students to apply writing and thinking skills to the specific demands of business, from the varieties of business correspondence to the preparation of proposals and reports. Students will practice the modes of business writing and develop the rhetorical and stylistic skills necessary for effective business communication.
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4.00 Credits
This course helps students learn to write for an audience that wants factual information for practical use. This specialized information is usually directed to a specific audience which already has familiarity with the field. Professional technical journals provide the primary sources for this writing, as do technical reports written for business and government use.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare students in all disciplines to teach, tutor, and supervise the writing of high school students and college undergraduates. The course will offer an introduction to the major trends in composition theory and research, as well as practice. It will also develop the technical and interpersonal skills necessary for effective instruction. Students will closely examine their own writing process and style. To fulfill the required laboratory element of this course, students will spend time each week working with a mentor in the Writing Center. Prerequisite: First Year Seminar and permission. Also listed as EDUC 313.
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3.00 Credits
This is an intensive writing course. The combination of reading and writing will inspire student insights into science and nature. The course will cover such topics as evolution, genetic research, and the romantic lure of the natural world. We have the daunting yet vitally important task of writing about scientific issues in a manner that is accessible to a popular audience. Class assignments will reflect that goal. Course books will acquaint students with scientific and environmental issues from historical, aesthetic, and medical perspectives. Students will learn to write summaries and analyze articles about science and nature and to synthesize historical scientific information-e.g., the findings of Darwin.--with current scientific and ecological issues and thought. While the class concentrates on scientific issues, it will be crucial to speculate on what these issues mean for our society. Therefore, students will deepen their understanding of how scientific issues intersect with our democracy and culture-at-large. A 4-hour version of this course is offered as WRIT 324. A student may receive credit for only one of these courses. Prerequisite: WRIT 221 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore the craft of metafiction, fiction that deliberately undermines and resists the conventions of traditional fiction. Students will read examples of metafiction, a genre marked by great humor and invention, and write carefully constructed metafiction of their own. Prerequisite: WRIT 221 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
Memoir, with its roots in the personal essay, uses the techniques of fiction and other literary genres to allow writers to remember and discover their lives through a specific theme or lens. Students will be asked to read and review several contemporary memoirs and to write a short memoir of their own. Workshops will be central, and students must be willing to read their own work as well as comment on the work of others. Prerequisite: WRIT 221 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
Literary journalism has its roots in the early work of Daniel Defoe, but in the last few decades has come into its own-a genre marked by distinct conventions of style, form, and sensibility. Students will read samples of work by several generations of literary journalists who have shaped (and continue to shape) the genre-work by writers like George Orwell, Stephen Crane, Norman Mailer, Lillian Ross, Tom Wolfe, Mark Singer, Lauren Slater, Annie Dillard, Mark Kramer, John McPhee, Joan Didion, Michael Pollan, Robert Sullivan, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, and Ian Frazier, as well as new voices emerging every day. They will write a long piece of immersion journalism themselves, joining the ongoing conversation nonfiction writers are having about this inventive and important form in American letters. A 4-hour version of this course is offered as WRIT 321. A student may receive credit for only one of these courses. Prerequisites: WRIT 221 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers training in the role and craft of the professional editor, with special focus on copyediting skills and preparation of book manuscripts. WRIT 221 or permission. Also listed as COMM 320.
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4.00 Credits
Literary journalism has its roots in the early work of Daniel Defoe, but in the last few decades has come into its own-a genre marked by distinct conventions of style, form, and sensibility. Students will read samples of work by several generations of literary journalists who have shaped (and continue to shape) the genre-work by writers like George Orwell, Stephen Crane, Norman Mailer, Lillian Ross, Tom Wolfe, Mark Singer, Lauren Slater, Annie Dillard, Mark Kramer, John McPhee, Joan Didion, Michael Pollan, Robert Sullivan, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, and Ian Frazier, as well as new voices emerging every day. They will write a long piece of immersion journalism themselves, joining the ongoing conversation nonfiction writers are having about this inventive and important form in American letters. A 3-hour version of this course is offered as WRIT 319. A student may receive credit for only one of these courses. Prerequisites: WRIT 221 or permission.
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