Interdisciplinary Writing

Modality: Remote-Synchronous In our message-dense digital age, innovators must explain their ideas clearly and compellingly, and in various forms. This course is a craft / writing workshop in which students incorporate the art of storytelling to write creative researched personal essays, primarily, based on their own interests, or on their work in their individualized majors or courses of study. Here, you can sharpen your chops for explaining, illustrating, and illuminating your ideas in writing, and use the crucial tools of elemental analysis and the creative writing workshop to hone your skills for persuasion through storytelling. You will learn to report your findings in creative and compelling new ways that could work as or inform pieces of long-form journalism, as blog posts, as nonfiction book chapters, radio programs, podcasts, or some other new or not yet imagined form. In this first course in the sequence, we will work primarily in researched personal essay, and will study exemplars of the form, as well as strategies for basic argument, logic, and critical reading and thinking. Credit/evaluation: written assignments and revisions, written and oral critique of classmates' work, and regular attendance. Texts: Readings will be provided. Students will provide hard copies of their work for classmates.