Becoming a Great Essayist

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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