Hello All, I hope you had a good weekend! Thank you for your excellent entries in the Discussion Boards.  In tomorrow morning’s class we will look at some of your comments in the Introduction Board, and some elements of the Narrative Drafts. We will also talk about how to write a helpful peer review, and how to most effectively revise our work. The link for tomorrow’s zoom session is in the Blackboard Announcement. See you in class! Professor Brener

Welcome Scholars! This course examines the stories we create about medicine and health. It is presented in two equal parts: a topic seminar and a writing seminar. In this writing section, you will compose an outsider narrative, a metaphor paper, a critical lens essay, and an I-search paper, which is a more informal version of a research paper, based on a topic of personal interest to you. You will read works by wonderful authors including Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, and William Carlos Williams. We will also look at relevant videos and multimedia content. Finally you will create your own multimedia portfolio containing …