ENGL 2890 - Expository Writing

(LA-AS)

Spring. 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. ENGL 2880–2890 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.

Spring 2013 Seminars: 1. Postmodern, Post-Body, Post-Human, M. Bucemi. Seminar 2. Coming of Age in the 20th and 21st Centuries, K. King-O’Brien. Seminar 3. Creative Nonfiction: Personal to Public, R. Coye. Seminar 4. Transitional Justice: Healing Broken Nations, M. Greco. Seminar 5. Crisis! Representing Disaster in Film and Fiction, S. Perlow. Seminar 6. Fieldwriting: Telling Community Stories, T. Carrick. Seminar 7. Visions of the City, E. Shapiro.