ENGL 1132

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ENGL 1132
FWS:The Personal Essay

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

In The Personal Essay, our topics are autobiographical in their origins; we write from personal experience, to think about it and to articulate it, in a style useful in all modes of college-admission and college-work. Our writing practice is both creative and analytical. We discover how writers use drafting and revision as a process of thinking, and in weekly workshops we practice the kind of revision that can make us more independent as writers and more capable of giving helpful suggestions to friends who are also writers. The most important texts for the course are the essays of students enrolled in it; but we also read and discuss personal memoirs. This seminar offers students from diverse backgrounds a forum in which to move beyond accustomed boundaries, finding agency not only through use of the first-person voice but through increased confidence in their abilities as writers.


Distribution Requirements (WRT-AG)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2023SU, 2022SU, 2021SU, 2020SU

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2972 ENGL 1132   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027

    • Gilvarry, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.