English 143N

Prose Nonfiction

Book List

The only assigned text will be a Class Reader of published essays.

Description

This will be a course in the essay, and it is designed to help students who are writing an undergraduate thesis-length paper. We will begin by getting acquainted with various kinds of essays (narrative and descriptive, personal and research-based, critical and analytical, etc.) and finding the forms that would best suit the individual students' projects. Class time for most of the semester will be devoted to workshops, in which we read and respond to students' work as they complete their prospectuses, organizational plans, and various drafts. Students will learn how to recognize and rectify stylistic, organizational, logical, and rhetorical problems. Various short exercises will be required during the semester, and a twenty-page paper will be due at the term's end.

To be considered for admission to this course, please submit 5-10 photocopied pages of your original nonfiction, along with an application form, to Professor Gallagher's mailbox in 322 Wheeler BY 4:00 P.M., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, AT THE LATEST.

Be sure to read the paragraph concerning creative writing courses on page 1 of this Announcement of Classes for further information regarding enrollment in such courses!

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