ENG 835 - Mindful Writing: Theroy and Practice

3 Credit(s) This course explores mindfulness as writing theory and practice and examines the impact of present awareness on the writing process and rhetorical situation. It studies rhetorical factors of impermanence, audience, internal rhetoric, verbal emptiness, mindful invention, and the embodied and material conditions of writing. Present-moment awareness is applied to writing to reduce obstacles that come from mindlessness or future-or past-oriented approaches. Students practice mindful writing techniques fro us in the classroom and their writing. Three lecture hours per week.