ENGL227

Students will receive an overview of the art and craft of the personal essay and memoir with focus on how to transform personal narrative into literary form and the understanding of how to employ literary fictive techniques such as voice, dialogue, point of view, description, pacing, rate of disclosure, etc. Students will read creative non-fiction essays and critique them with an eye toward developing the skills to employ the techniques used by the authors read and annotated. Students will write, workshop, and revise personal essays, memoirs, and other creative non-fiction writing products and develop a portfolio by the end of the semester.