ENGL 2880 - Expository Writing

(LA-AS)

Fall, winter. 4 credits.

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

S. Davis, staff.

This course does not satisfy requirements for the English major. ENGL 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.

Topics for Fall 2015 are:

Sem. 101	Secrets, Surveillance, and You	J. Reinhardt
Sem. 102	Creative Nonfiction: The Invented I	O. Akinsiku
Sem. 103	Creative Nonfiction: The Everyday is Extraordinary	J. Neal
Sem. 104	Post-Human Thinking: Beyond the Brain	M. Kibbee
Sem. 105	Patient Zero to Global Pandemic	K. Schlauraff
Sem. 106	Grassroots Politics	M. SoRelle
Sem. 107	Black Power, Yellow Peril	C. Yao