The McGraw Seminar in Writing: Writing People

Writing People is a seminar focused on the many ways in which a journalist rooted in the disciplines of reporting and research, boosted by the techniques of creative nonfiction can convey the fleeting, inimitable virtues, quirks, and foibles of real people. By reading and dissecting examples of writing from a bevy of genres, including magazine profiles, arts reviews, and newspaper obituaries, students will learn how to use a mountain of facts to form a human shape.