"Essaying": The Art of Written Reflection
Week 8 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hultquist 201B | Ages 14 and up
Let your inner logophile fly! In the French language, to "essai" means to try, or to tease out an idea. Essay writing, a genre popularized by the 16th century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, is a wonderful way to play with your words and thoughts as a creative art form. Essay writing combines your worldview, life's journey, specialized knowledge, enjoyment of wordplay, and stories drawn from memory to express your ruminations upon virtually any topic. Whether you find an audience or not, essay writing has a cathartic effect upon most writers.
Class Times
Students can bring paper and pen or laptops/devices with which to write.
Maureen Phillips
Ph.D. English Rhetoric, UW, Seattle; M.A.T., English, UW, Seattle; B.A., English/writing emphasis UW, Seattle. Taught college writing in all genres for over 30 years. Private educational consultant since 2012 specializing in coaching doctoral dissertation writers to successful completion of their programs. Since fall 2018, teaching memoir writing to seniors through University of Arizona's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Chautauqua.
