523 Creative Nonfiction Spring 2005
The Revision Workshop
Syllabus and Course Description
Essays On E-reserve at Zimmerman Library
Required:
An Interview with Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley's "What Stories Teach Their Writers
Susan Sontag's "Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed"
Suggested Reading:
Patricia Hampl's "Memory & Imagination"
Vivian Gornick's "The Situation & the Story"
Philip Lopate's "Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character"
To access use the following path:
- http://ereserves.unm.edu/courseindex.asp
- select English department and Greg Martin
- select Eng 523
- enter password: study523 (password is all one word)
- have at it Note on downloading adobe (pdf) files
Handouts (on website)
Craft Features: Quotes, Ideas, Questions, Working Definitions
Workshops (pdf)