ENGL 3250

Students demonstrate critical understanding of memoirs as a unique sub-genre included under the umbrella term “Life Writing” through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of memoirs written by women from a variety of time periods and diverse sociocultural backgrounds, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by memoir writers, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students investigate and analyze how women have found memoir to be a useful tool of self-representation in various contexts that reflect a range of experiential differences and illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.