CW 110 - Advanced Composition: Challenging Writing
CW 110 - Advanced Composition: Challenging Writing
Description: This writing workshop will offer students an opportunity to write essays and other nonfiction prose that speak both personally and politically to the issues and audiences they wish to address. The readings will focus on the rhetorical strategies of writers who have used the essay as a cultural form to challenge the norms of the time and place in which they live(d).
Prerequisites: Fulfillment of both halves of the Reading and Composition Requirement or consent of instructor
Units and Format: 4 units - Four hours of lecture per week
Breadth Requirement: This course can be used toward satisfying the seven-course Breadth Requirement in Arts and Literature
Meeting time: TuTh 3:30-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 224 Wheeler
Course description: What pushes your buttons? Who's a fascinating person you'd like to know more about? Why should we write about the events and people around us? In this writing workshop, we will read a variety of historical and contemporary essays in order to see how writers use nonfiction as a form for challenging people and issues in society. Then, using these sources as inspiration, you will write a series of your own essays in different forms (for example: narrative journalism, ethnography, opinion essays, and more). Get ready to write about the moment you are living in.
Prerequisite: Fulfillment of the Reading and Composition Requirement or the instructor's consent.
Book list: Salvation on Sand Mountain (Dennis Covington),The Act of Fact (Ben Yagoda), Telling True Stories (Mark Kramer), In Fact (Lee Gutkind), Course Reader (online)
