Interdisciplinary Writing II

Fairhaven students are studying to be leaders in fields that they are sometimes inventing themselves - pioneering, innovating, and revolutionizing how we do the business of being human. All leaders, especially those whose ideas challenge existing paradigms, must learn to communicate their ideas clearly, passionately, and persuasively. And human brains resonate to story. So leaders must advance arguments with good storytelling skills. We will work to sharpen our ability to write in new forms that suit our own academic interests, fusing high-level interdisciplinary research, potent persuasive argument structure, and compelling storytelling arts, and work toward developing our own distinct voices and styles for bringing written work to bear. (Interdisciplinary Writing I is the ideal preparation for this course.) This course will be, effectively, a Creative Writing workshop in researched and reported creative nonfiction. We will work on one or two core projects across the quarter, and will continue to focus on understanding how to fuse essay and story to persuade a reader or listener; on deep and thorough revision; and on developing our own unique voices as writers and thinkers, innovators and popularizers, visionaries and revolutionaries, persuaders and leaders.

Credit/evaluation: regular homework assignments, major written works and revisions, written and oral critique of classmates' work.

Texts: Readings will be provided. Students will provide hard copies of their work for classmates.