Non-fiction Writing I is a course designed to provide the student entering the MFA program in nonfiction a grasp of the central principles of writing professional-quality nonfiction. Students will submit to the instructor every four weeks 30 pages of manuscript, double-spaced, 12 point font, with pagination. In addition, and on a schedule established with the instructor, students will submit on a bi-weekly basis a reading journal covering the reading assignments accomplished during that period.