Connect a personal experience, an idea, or a memory to the world outside of yourself. Discover the keys to unlocking your potential in essay writing with an award-winning author.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Steal, Adopt, Adapt: Where Essays Begin
- 02: Memory Maps and Your Essay's Direction
- 03: Secrets, Confession, and a Writer's Voice
- 04: The Skeptical Essayist: Conflicting Views
- 05: The Reasonable Essayist: Artistic Proofs
- 06: The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony
- 07: The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion
- 08: When an Essayist's Feelings Face Facts
- 09: Unabashedly Me: The First-Person Essay
- 10: Essayists as Poets: Tapping into Imagery
- 11: The Visual Essay: Words + Pictures
- 12: Writing Inch by Inch: From Draft to Polish
- 13: Short Forms: Microessays and Prose Poems
- 14: The Memoir Essay
- 15: Lyric Essays: Writing That Sings
- 16: The Epistolary Essay: Letters to the World
- 17: Portrait Essays: People in Words
- 18: The Essayist as Public Intellectual
- 19: Polemical Essays: One-Sided Arguments
- 20: Historical Essays: Past as Present
- 21: Humor Essays
- 22: Nature Essays
- 23: Food Essays: My Grandmother's Recipe Box
- 24: Sharing Your Essays: From Blog to Book
Taught by
Jennifer Cognard-Black
