Becoming a Great Essayist

Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture 1—Steal, Adopt, Adapt: Where Essays Begin
Lecture 2—Memory Maps and Your Essay’s Direction
Lecture 3—Secrets, Confession, and a Writer’s Voice
Lecture 4—The Skeptical Essayist: Conflicting Views
Lecture 5—The Reasonable Essayist: Artistic Proofs
Lecture 6—The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony
Lecture 7—The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion
Lecture 8—When an Essayist’s Feelings Face Facts
Lecture 9—Unabashedly Me: The First-Person Essay
Lecture 10—Essayists as Poets: Tapping into Imagery
Lecture 11—The Visual Essay: Words + Pictures
Lecture 12—Writing Inch by Inch: From Draft to Polish
Lecture 13—Short Forms: Microessays and Prose Poems
Lecture 14—The Memoir Essay
Lecture 15—Lyric Essays: Writing That Sings
Lecture 15—Lyric Essays: Writing That Sings
Lecture 16—The Epistolary Essay: Letters to the World
Lecture 17—Portrait Essays: People in Words
Lecture 18—The Essayist as Public Intellectual
Lecture 19—Polemical Essays: One-Sided Arguments
Lecture 20—Historical Essays: Past as Present
Lecture 21—Humor Essays
Lecture 22—Nature Essays
Lecture 23—Food Essays: My Grandmother’s Recipe Box
Lecture 24—Sharing Your Essays: From Blog to Book
Bibliography
Image Credits