Dana H. Allin

This seminar and workshop has three purposes. The first is to read, reflect upon and actively discuss fiction and non-fiction models of excellent writing. The second is to participate in a shadow editorial process putting together two issues of the bi-monthly journal, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy. Approximately half of class time will therefore be organized as editorial meetings where students, under the direction of the instructor (the Editor of Survival), will participate in various aspects of the process: commissioning articles, evaluating submissions, preliminary editing of accepted copy, and laying out the issue. The third purpose is to hone students' writing skills, with emphasis on the intersection of writing for the policy debate and writing as a literary art. To this end, each student will meet individually with the instructor in five half-hour tutorial sessions to go over the student’s written work.