ENC 3310 Spring 2022 Odendahl

This class focuses on writing and reading nonfiction, wherever that pursuit leads us. To that end, we’ll be reading essays from various authors as well as composing our own. The class is centered around the workshop—everyone will compose one essay, which they will distribute to the class for feedback—as well as discussions about essays written by other authors.

This course is asking you to go beyond the easy, “I liked this, I didn’t like this,” and to be able to fully articulate your ideas of what makes a piece of nonfiction powerful or not. Essentially, this class will urge you to consider why you like the way you like and why you write the way you write.

This course meets the Upper-Division Writing Requirement.