ENGL 2880 - Expository Writing

(ALC-AS, LA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: completion of First-Year Writing Seminar requirement or permission of the instructor. This course satisfies requirements for the English minor but not for the English major. Taken with the instructor’s permission, it satisfies First-Year Writing Seminar requirements for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. If counted toward the First-Year Writing Seminar requirement, the course will not count toward LA-AS or ALC-AS. ENGL 2880 is not a prerequisite for ENGL 2890. For descriptions of each topic, please visit the university class roster.

Staff.

This course 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. Students and instructors will confer individually throughout the term. Topics differ for each section.

Topics for 2022-2023 may include:

Term	Course Topic	Instructor
Fall	Creative Nonfiction: Exploring the Personal Essay	C. Green
Fall	Diaspora Voices	B. Fried
Fall	The Speculative Self	T. Pryor
Fall	Our Shelves, Ourselves: Reassessing the Book in the Digital Age	J. Rabedeau
Fall	Wages for Dating? Emotional Labor, Gender, and Work	P. Chun