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Connect a personal experience, an idea, or a memory to the world outside of yourself. Discover the keys to unlocking your potential in essay writing with an award-winning author.

Syllabus

  • 01: Steal, Adopt, Adapt: Where Essays Begin
  • 02: Memory Maps and Your Essay's Direction
  • 03: Secrets, Confession, and a Writer's Voice
  • 04: The Skeptical Essayist: Conflicting Views
  • 05: The Reasonable Essayist: Artistic Proofs
  • 06: The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony
  • 07: The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion
  • 08: When an Essayist's Feelings Face Facts
  • 09: Unabashedly Me: The First-Person Essay
  • 10: Essayists as Poets: Tapping into Imagery
  • 11: The Visual Essay: Words + Pictures
  • 12: Writing Inch by Inch: From Draft to Polish
  • 13: Short Forms: Microessays and Prose Poems
  • 14: The Memoir Essay
  • 15: Lyric Essays: Writing That Sings
  • 16: The Epistolary Essay: Letters to the World
  • 17: Portrait Essays: People in Words
  • 18: The Essayist as Public Intellectual
  • 19: Polemical Essays: One-Sided Arguments
  • 20: Historical Essays: Past as Present
  • 21: Humor Essays
  • 22: Nature Essays
  • 23: Food Essays: My Grandmother's Recipe Box
  • 24: Sharing Your Essays: From Blog to Book
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Jennifer Cognard-Black

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