ENGL 2880 - Expository Writing

(LA-AS)

Fall, winter. 4 credits.

Students must have completed their colleges’ first-year writing requirements or have the permission of the instructor. Each section limited to 18 students. Website: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/engl2880-2890/.

S. Davis and staff.

This course does not satisfy requirements for the English major. ENGLISH 2880 offers guidance and an audience for students who wish to gain skill in expository writing—a common term for critical, reflective, investigative, and creative nonfiction. Each section provides a context for writing defined by a form of exposition, a disciplinary area, a practice, or a topic intimately related to the written medium. Course members will read in relevant published material and write and revise their own work regularly, while reviewing and responding to one another’s. Since these seminar-sized courses depend on members’ full participation, regular attendance and submission of written work are required. Students and instructors will confer individually throughout the term.

Fall 2012 Seminars: 1. Postmodern, Post-Body, Post-Human, M. Bucemi. Seminar 2. Creative Nonfiction: Personal to Public, R. Coye. Seminar 3. War, Peace, Terror, and the Law, O. Ince. Seminar 4. Rights in Conflict in American Democracy, M. Greco. Seminar 5. Creative Nonfiction: The Essay as Memoir, K. Gottschalk. Seminar 6. Crisis! Apocalyptic Films and Fictions, S. Davis.