Course details

Name: ENWR - 220

Title: WRITING IN THE MAJOR

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Organized around individual instructors’ chosen topic or theme, this course will focus on the development of students’ skills in writing a thesis-driven analytic essay. Students will work with literary and cultural texts to strengthen their reading and analytic abilities, using those skills to construct sophisticated arguments. Because the course is designed for English majors, students will learn and apply the vocabulary, writing conventions, research methods, and documentation practices of the discipline. Students will write 5000-6000 words of formal prose and regularly revise their essays with feedback from peers and the instructor. ENWR220 meets the Graduation Writing Requirement. Recommended but not required as a precursor to Pursuits of English. For English majors only.

In this section students will read and write analytic papers on "confessional" literature, from several genres -- personal narrative/memoir, drama (the monologue), and poetry. Focus will be entirely on the 20th and 21st centuries and we will read many new and likely unfamiliar authors, including Andrew Burroughs, John Edgar Wideman, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and David Sedaris.

Last updated on 2013-10-18 By Isaacs Emily (isaacse)

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

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Teaching Faculty: Isaacs Emily (isaacse)

Is course canceled: No