Expos Department Offers New Option

Freshmen interested in writing essays can register this spring for a new expository writing section.

The new course, "Expository Writing 17: The Essay," is a subsection of the current option "Theory and Practice of Writing." Students taking the course will analyze essays by great writers, such as Joan Didion and E.B. White, and try to incorporate the writers' techniques into their own pieces, according to a course description.

"This is a course I've wanted to teach for a long time," said Douglas E. Bauer, a preceptor in expository writing and the course instructor. "There is a certain expedient match between the way we try to get the expos writers to think and write and the way such essays are written."

The target audience for such essays is "the lay reader, anyone who is interested in watching a good mind at work on the page," said Bauer.