ENGL 2880

Expository Writing

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course offers guidance and an audience for students who wish to gain skill in expository writing-a common term for critical, reflective, investigative, and creative nonfiction. Each section provides a context for writing defined by a form of exposition, a disciplinary area, a practice, or a topic intimately related to the written medium. Course members will read in relevant published material and write and revise their own work regularly, while reviewing and responding to one another's. Students and instructors will confer individually throughout the term. Topics differ for each section. Please see the Class Roster for more details. This course satisfies requirements for the English minor but not for the English major. Taken with the instructor’s permission, and with the letter grade option, it satisfies First-Year Writing Seminar requirements for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. If counted toward the First-Year Writing Seminar requirement, the course will not count toward ALC-AS.

Prerequisites completion of First-Year Writing Seminar requirement or permission of the instructor.

Distribution Requirements (WRT-AG), (ALC-AS), (SOW-IL)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024FA, 2024SP, 2023FA

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