I assume you share the goal of developing a greater power over important forms of written expression and that you want to express yourself more powerfully. In that context, the course will also be a conversation among men and women about men and women. Meaning can be derived from a given text through a process of reading, interpretation, and criticism.
Writing is the expression of thought and derives from both experience and the imagination.
Good writers develop a repertoire of effective techniques and tools, such as listing, outlining, clustering, nutshelling, summarizing, word processing, text editing, peer critiquing, and sentence revision strategies, such as sentence combining and chunking. Effective learning requires both work and play. Every so often, we will use our discussions, reflections, and writings about these texts to serve as the basis of a piece of formal writing that will be submitted for grading. The research project will be term-long and will be group based. Details will be provided in class.