ADVANCED NON-FICTION: CONSTRUCTING THE REAL. This advanced Non-Fiction course will serve as a meeting point between your pasts and futures as writers. You will take stock of your college writing and reading so far, and use earlier discoveries to push those experiences into new dimensions. You will produce, over the semester, three substantial (circa 10 pages) pieces of writing, which you will then subject to guided revisions. These pieces can serve as the bases for your final Capstone project - and/or future writing. You will also revisit the psychological and experiential impulses that led you to writing in the first place, and, through articles, essays, memoir fragments and experimental prose, explore other writers’ motivations to write, and their craft solutions. Exploration and risk-taking will be emphasized throughout the semester, along with a rigorous analysis of the craft displayed in your own and your peers’ writing, and in course readings.