ENG 277 Creative Nonfiction Essay Writing

3 Credits

Designed as a writing workshop, this course improves each writer’s prose style, structure, and content as well as challenges each student to develop nonfiction essays about topics of personal interest. Models of nonfiction essays in the creative nonfiction genre are examined to see how published writers develop and execute their ideas. Structural patterns for organizing several types of nonfiction essays, such as the memoir, personal essay, literary journalistic essay, critical essay, and segmented essay are studied.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 102 (with a minimum grade of C).