ENW 5260 Research for Writers (cross-Genre)
Creative writing demands introspection and increasingly deeper exploration of our personal concerns, interests, and artistic goals. This course seeks to balance that inner gaze with materials from other perspectives. By seeking data, records, and other materials in stored sources, by using interviews and personal sources, and by exploring new physical locations, students will expand their awareness of the matters they choose to write about and discover how subjective and objective realities interact and inform each other. This course does not seek to limit the definition of research to academic or journalistic modes, but rather, its intention is to widen students' perception of what research is and how it can enlarge one's creative universe.