journalism
Implementing the techniques and devices we’ll study in the various modes of literary journalism, you will compose a 6-8-page journalistic profile of a person working in the professional field you wish to enter. This is NOTto resemble a biography; it is to be a work of creative nonfiction—more specifically, a work of reportage that, as Lincoln Steffens once wrote of journalism, endeavors to represent its subject “so humanely that the reader will see himself in the other fellow’s place.” To be clear, the person you choose to write about—your profile subject—must be someone to whom you have real access. In other words, it is someone you’ll be able to interview and observe directly.
