Catcher in the Writing Class
Deconstructing the Microcosm of Undergraduate Writing Classes at Yale
It’s the first Thursday afternoon of shopping period, and every seat in LC 104 is occupied. Students squeeze two to a chair, perch on every available ledge and sit cross-legged on the floor.
But for what?
The dozens of students in the room have turned out for the information session for Anne Fadiman’s “Advanced Nonfiction Writing: At Home in America,” one of the English Department’s three creative nonfiction writing classes offered this semester.
But of the 50 students who will eventually apply for the course, only 12 will get in.
Each semester, the English...
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