ENC 3310 - Fall 2025 - Jemison
Spring
2026
ENC 3310
Article and Essay Technique: Creative Nonfiction Writing
Jade Jemison
| This course introduces students to the art and practice of creative nonfiction: a genre that blends storytelling techniques with lived experience, research, and reflection. Together, we’ll read essays, memoir excerpts, profiles, and experimental forms by a diverse range of contemporary and classic writers. Throughout the semester, students will keep a personal journal, using it as both a private space for reflection and a place to practice ethnographic note-taking: documenting daily life, observing cultural and personal moments, and gathering details that can later be transformed into essays. Emphasis will be placed on writing as a process as we workshop original pieces: generating, experimenting, critiquing, and rewriting to strengthen drafting skills. Students will explore forms such as the personal essay, braided essay, and cultural critique, while also learning strategies for research and reflection. By the end of the semester, students will have produced a portfolio of original nonfiction pieces, grown more confident in their writing voice, and developed the tools to see their lived experience as material for meaningful art. |