An Enactment in the Creation of the Self
Students (and educators) too often regard the essay as merely an instrument of assessing learning, but the essay has a rich history as a creative genre. In this course we will approach the essay as the creative, dynamic, imaginative literary form that it actually is. Your approach to writing essays will never be the same! More specifically, in this course we will:
-Learn a little bit about the history of the essay as a literary genre.
-Read a variety of essays form a variety of essayists.
-Experiment with writing different kinds of essays, such as personal essays, op-eds, commentaries, and rants.
-Share writing with one another both for revision and entertainment.
-Play around with some multimodal forms of composition.
You will leave this course with a very different and improved understanding of the essay, and you will be better writers. The essays you write in the future may challenge some of your teachers’ more conventional expectations, but they will be better, more interesting, and more like the real writing professional essayists actually create. Your professors in college will be grateful.
Learn more at precollege-summer.uconn.edu/a...
6 авг 2024
