ENG 5910 - Writing Nonfiction

This course focuses on the writing of creative nonfiction in the following genres: memoir; biography; travel writing; literary journalism; and lyric, personal, spiritual, and hybrid essays. Students will learn the techniques of creative nonfiction by reading and analyzing essays by major contemporary authors, including Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, John McPhee, David James Duncan, Jo Ann Beard, and others. The majority of class time will be devoted to work-shopping student essays. Workshopped essays will be revised and submitted in a final portfolio.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 3000 or permission of department chair.

Credit Hours: 3

Term Offered: Fall of odd years

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