ENGL 282 - The Crafts of Writing: Creative Nonfiction

This advanced workshop course focuses in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing creative nonfiction, building on the work done in ENGL 150. Depending on the instructor, it may approach the creative process through, for example, translating lived experience into the personal essay, or developing narrative journalism, the lyric essay, or a variety of other forms. It will involve extensive readings and discussion of nonfiction in addition to regular nonfiction writing assignments. Course may be taken twice for credit, so long as it is with a different instructor or subtitle. Prerequisite(s):

ENGL 150

taken at Macalester. Alternate years. (4 Credits)