ENC 4311 Fall 2023 Kirby

This course will feature short papers and a long one. It’ll also be conference-driven, so expect to sit knee-to-knee with your professor and work closely with him as the two of you pull out every sentence, make sure it’s the right size and shape, and put it back in like artists making a mosaic on the ceiling of one of those Byzantine churches of the Eastern Roman Empire. This same professor has published hundreds of essays in magazines and newspapers, and every one of them only appeared after undergoing some of the most excruciating copy editing imaginable, so you should expect the same. On the reward side, he’ll do his best to help you get your work published.

We’ll be reading two required texts, Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story and Ned Stuckey-French’s One By One, The Stars (see order information on the scheduling web site and get these books early, as local stores don’t always stock them). The prerequisite for this class is ENC 3311. There you will have learned the basics. Here we’ll be making custom art works, durable and beautiful to the eye.

Course Pre-Requisites: ENC 3311