English 230-001
Writing with Style
Instr: Ross, Carol
Office: CRT 524; 229-2971
e-mail: cross@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: TR; 11:00am-12:15pm; HLT G84
Please note prerequisite of C or better in English 102 or score at level 4 on EPT. English 230 fulfills a requirement for English majors in Rhetoric and Writing Track B.
Course Description
English 230 is an undergraduate course devoted to reading and writing a versatile, evolving genre known as creative nonfiction. Students will discover the styles or individual ways that writers of creative nonfiction express themselves. Students will discover
- how factual content and creative style work together
- the variety of forms available such as memoir, personal essay, portrait, essay of place, and literary journalism
- the variety of structures available such as chronological, segmented, framed, and epistolary
- the range of voice and language in creative nonfiction
Students will have the opportunity to do extensive writing so that they may develop and practice a creative nonfiction style.
Texts
Writing True by Perl and Schwartz
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
Attendance
Attendance is crucial to success in this course. Over three absences will affect the semester grade.
