MALA 70693 - Writing Life: Autobiography as Creative Nonfiction

Students who take this course will write three full-length pieces (8-12 pages each) of creative nonfiction based on incidents that have occurred in their lives. Students will read selected works of creative nonfiction and from three textbooks on writing (Ann Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Phillip Lopate's The Art of the Personal Essay, and Mary Catherine Bateson's Composing a Life). The work of the course will revolve around writing the three pieces, reading and responding to fellow students' pieces online, and analyzing reading assignments from the textbooks.





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