Writing for a Wide Audience

(4 Credits)

This course is expressly designed for graduate students outside of the Journalism Department. Writing for A Wide Audience is grounded in the idea that expertise is a wasted (and often unlovely) thing if not shared with non-experts. The purpose of the course is to help students specializing in a wide range of disciplines to learn how to write for the public — people outside their academic discipline. Students will work on writing that is rigorous, but never jargon-riddled or obscure; accessible to readers who don’t share their expertise; and compelling to people with little previous knowledge of its subject.