This is an advanced writing course designed for juniors and seniors who have taken at least one intermediate or advanced creative writing, rhetoric/composition, or journalism course. Through seminar-style discussion and analysis of two book-length works of nonfiction as well as shorter pieces, students will sharpen and contribute to our collective understanding of the various styles, traditions, unspoken rules, and audiences for nonfiction writing. The seminar component of the course, which focuses on outside texts, will serve the studio portions of the course, which are based on analyzing student work through peer-review. In addition to an intimate and active engagement with shared texts, students will shape, draft, and revise publication-ready works of their own that incorporate – in ways unique to each student – elements of autobiography, reporting, research, and arts criticism.