Becoming a Great Essayist

Connect a personal experience, an idea, or a memory to the world outside of yourself. Discover the keys to unlocking your potential in essay writing with an award-winning author.

• By This Professor
• 01: Steal, Adopt, Adapt: Where Essays Begin
• 02: Memory Maps and Your Essay's Direction
• 03: Secrets, Confession, and a Writer's Voice
• 04: The Skeptical Essayist: Conflicting Views
• 05: The Reasonable Essayist: Artistic Proofs
• 06: The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony
• 07: The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion
• 08: When an Essayist's Feelings Face Facts
• 09: Unabashedly Me: The First-Person Essay
• 10: Essayists as Poets: Tapping into Imagery
• 11: The Visual Essay: Words + Pictures
• 12: Writing Inch by Inch: From Draft to Polish
• 13: Short Forms: Microessays and Prose Poems
• 14: The Memoir Essay
• 15: Lyric Essays: Writing That Sings
• 16: The Epistolary Essay: Letters to the World
• 17: Portrait Essays: People in Words
• 18: The Essayist as Public Intellectual
• 19: Polemical Essays: One-Sided Arguments
• 20: Historical Essays: Past as Present
• 21: Humor Essays
• 22: Nature Essays
• 23: Food Essays: My Grandmother's Recipe Box
• 24: Sharing Your Essays: From Blog to Book