ANALYTICAL WRITING
WRIT 275/0.5
This seminar course is based upon a premise articulated by the authors of Writing Analytically: "We explore – and we hope, explode – the myths that artificially separate analytical from creative writing. All good writing, we believe, is both" (20).
Students in WRIT 275 read and discuss articles by authors in various fields (medicine, philosophy, journalism, and economics, to name a few). They also write informal and formal papers, each of which serves four objectives: to dwell longer than customary with the evidence; to make the thesis evolve in response to the evidence; to converse with sources; and to share their thought processes with readers (Writing Analytically, xv - xvi). The focus is on memoirs, by such authors as Joan Didion, Bruce McCall, Anne Carson, and Richard Rodriguez,
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Required Texts
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard (Random House 1993)
Glass, Irony & God by Anne Carson (New Directions 1992)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Alfred A. Knopf 2005)
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez (Bantam Dell 1982)
The Writing Centre, Stauffer Library
Queen's University
Kingston, Ont. K7L 5C4
(613) 533-6315 / fax: (613) 533-6189
email: writing@queensu.ca