Professor: Byron Hawk
Email: bhawk@gmu.edu
Time: MW 300PM-415PM
Place: Rob B103

Links/Resources

Campus Resources:

There are several services provided on campus to assist you in completing your composition requirements. The most useful is the Writing Center. Tutors are there to give you constructive feedback on your papers. For those who require additional ESL help, the Writing Center will refer you to tutors in the English Language Institute.

• University Writing Center, Robinson A114, 993-1200
• English Language Institute, Krug Hall 202, 993-3660
• Disability Resource Center, SUB I 234, 993-2474
• Counseling Center, SUB I 364, 993-2380
• Learning Services, SUB I 354, 993-2999
• Composition Program, Robinson A420, 993-2772

Library and Research Links:

Perhaps the best way to learn about the library and its services is to walk in and ask a librarian. If this isn't a viable option, here are a few links that may help you out in a pinch.

• Main Library Site
• Libraries and Research
• Accessing restricted information resources from off-campus computers
• Free Research Classes
• Virtual Libraries
• Guide to Online Research at GMU
• Assessing Web Pages
• Searching for Media in the Library Catalog

Nonfiction Links:

Here are a few links relevant to nonfiction writing. This is far from an exhaustive list, but it gives you some initial places to start.

• Nonfiction Universe
• Creative Nonfiction
• Text and Community (Ehrenreich)
• Short interview with Barbara Ehrenreich
• Brevity (a journal of short creative nonfiction)
• 3 A.M. Magazine (nonfiction)
• On the Page Magazine (short nonfiction) also see archives
• Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (print journal)
• In and Around the Lake (an interesting online essay)
• Nonfiction book bibliography
• Modern Library Board top 100
• Yahoo Nonfiction links
• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
• Rhetoric Links
• Metaphor links
• Rhetorical Falacies

Bibliography:

Below is a select bibliography for nonfiction. The list is primarily books so it should be easy to track them down. (Note the call numbers for Mason's library.)

Nonfiction

Anderson, Chris, ed. Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. [PS366.R44 L58 1989] *

Bloom, Lary. The Writer Within: a Guide to Creative Nonfiction. Storrs, CT: Bibliopola Press, 1997. [JC - PN153 .B57 1997]

Borges, Jorge Luis. Selected Non-Fictions. Ed. Eliot Weinberger. NY, NY: Penguin, 1999. [PQ7797 .B635 A22 1999]

Brooks, Terri. Words' Worth: a Handbook on Writing and Selling Nonfiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. [PN4784.F37 B76 1989]

Bugeja, Michael J. Guide to Writing Magazine Nonfiction. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. [PN147 .B79 1998]

Barth, John. The Friday Book: Essays and other Nonfiction. New York: Putnam, 1984. [PS3552 .A75 F7 1984]

- - - . Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and other Nonfiction, 1984-94. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1995. [PS3552 .A75 F87 1995]

Frus, Phyllis. The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative: the Timely and the Timeless. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [PS366.R44 F78 1994]

Graves, Donald H. Investigate Nonfiction. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Toronto, Canada: Irwin Pub., 1989. [JC - LB1576 .G7276 1989]

Gutkind, Lee. Creative Nonfiction: How to Live it and Write it. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, 1996. [PN3377.5.R45 G88 1996]

Johnson, Michael L. The New Journalism: the Underground Press, the Artists of Nonfiction, and Changes in the Established Media. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1971. [PN4867 .J64]

Kitchen, Judith. Jones, Mary Paumier, eds. In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. [JC - PS688 .I5 1996]

Lehman, Daniel W. Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. [PN4867 .L43 1997]

Lounsberry, Barbara. The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [PS369 .L68 1990]

Mandell, Judy, ed. Magazine Writers Nonfiction Guidelines: over 200 periodical editors' instructions reproduced. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1987. [PN147 .M33 1987]

Noble, William. Writing Dramatic Nonfiction. Forest Dale, Vt.: P.S. Eriksson, 2000. [JC - PN187 .N63 2000]

Rand, Ayn. The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers. Ed. Robert Mayhew. New York : Plume, 2001. [JC - PN147 .R35 2001]

Root, Robert, and Michael Steinberg, eds. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. 2nd ed. NY: Longman, 2002.*

Sims, Patsy, ed. Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. [PE1417 .L625 2002]

Stewart, James B. Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. [JC - PN147 .S792 1998]

Westfall, Patricia Tichenor. Beyond Intuition: A Guide to Writing and Editing Magazine Nonfiction. New York: Longman, 1994. [PN1181 .W47 1994]

Wolf, Dennie. Craven, Julie. Balick, Dana, eds. More than the Truth: Teaching Nonfiction Writing through Journalism. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. [PN4785 .M64 1996]

Essay

Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas). Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. [PN4500 .A89 1992] *

Bensmaia, Reda. The Barthes Effect: the Essay as Reflective Text. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. [PQ731 .B413 1987] (on Barthes and Montaigne)

Burgard, Peter J. Idioms of Uncertainty: Goethe and the Essay. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. [PT2189 .B8 1992]

Butrym, Alexander J. Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989. [PN4500 .E73 1989]

Chevalier, Tracy, ed. Encyclopedia of the Essay. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. [PN6141 .E53 1997]

Cixous, Helene. "Coming to Writing" and other Essays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. [PQ2663.I9 C58 1991]

Cooley, Thomas, ed. The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. [PE1417 .N6 1997]

Forman, Janis, ed. What do I know?: Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Essay. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heinemann, 1996. [PN4500 .W48 1996] (see chs on disjunction)

Gross, John, ed. The Oxford Book of Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. [JC - PR1363 .O9 1991]

Hamilton, Ian, ed. The Book of Twentieth-century Essays. New York: Fromm International, 2000. [PR927 .B68 2000]

Harrison, Thomas J. Essayism: Conrad, Musil, and Pirandello. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. [PN4500 .H28 1992]

Heilker, Paul. The Essay: Theory and Pedagogy for an Active Form. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996 [PE 1404 .H396 1996]*

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B., Mittman, Elizabeth, eds. The Politics of the Essay: Feminist Perspectives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1993. [PN4500 .P65 1993]* (essay on Cixous)

Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. Anchor Books, 1994/5.*

Montaigne, Michel de. Essays. Trans. Donald M. Frame. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1980. [PN35 .F7]

Oates, Joyce Carol, and Atwan, Robert, eds. The Best American Essays of the Century. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. [PS688 .B478 2000]*

Obaldia, Claire de. The Essayistic Spirit: Literature, Modern Criticism, and the Essay. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [PN4500 .D35 1995]

Rhetoric

Anderson, Chris. Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. [PS366.R44 A5 1987]

Bloom, Lynn Z. Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1998. [JC - PE1404 .B589 1998]

Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 2nd ed. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Hallie, Philip P. The Scar of Montaigne: an Essay in Personal Philosophy. Middleton, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. [B785.M74 H3]

Heitsch, Dorothea B. Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais. Boston, MA: Brill, 2000. [B785.M74 .H45 2000]

Levine, Alan. Sensual Philosophy: Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne's Politics of the Self. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001. [B785.M74 L48 2001]

Melehy, Hassan. Writing Cogito: Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997. [B841.6 .M45 1997]

Olson, Gary A., Dobrin, Sidney I., eds. Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. [PE1404 .C627 1994] (essays on essay)

Winterowd, W. Ross. The Rhetoric of the "other" Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. [PS366.R44 W56 1990]