They examine the role played by the arts and the forms of popular culture in shaping identity. They analyze conventions of reading, writing, and thinking in different intellectual disciplines, in different rhetorical modes and literary genres, and in different historical periods and cultures. They suggest ways of respecting the changing demands placed upon writers by changing audiences and occasions. They propose useful steps writers can take before they write, as they write, and as they revise. They demand frequent writing, rewriting, reading, and rereading.
Enrollment is limited to seventeen students a class.
Individual conferences with the instructor are required. A full description of these courses and of their individual sections is available in the pamphlet Writing at Brown , which entering students receive in July and which is substantively reproduced here. Entering students should consult Writing at Brown for help in selecting an appropriate program. This information was updated Fall 1998, is for the use of Brown students alone, and is copyright Brown University. Please send comments here.