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English 103
Workshop in Advanced Writing/Special Focus on the Personal Essay
Professor Harriet Malinowitz
This course will focus on writing the personal essay. The
first few class meetings will be devoted to reading personal essays
by established authors and analyzing their form, their style, the
rhetorical strategies they employ, and their use of language.
This examination should help us understand the ways personal essays
present and interrogate the self and subjective experience.
Our reading of published essays will continue, though less intensively,
as we move on to a workshop format in which students' essays are
read and discussed in detail. The goal of the workshop critique
is to help the writer move effectively toward revision; each student
will be expected to produce two developed 10-15 page personal essays
(or one longer piece) by the end of the course. Students are
encouraged to make as many appointments for individual conferences
as they wish.
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