Orwell, George. "Shooting an Elephant" from The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. New York : Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968. Orwell, Sonia; Angus, Ian, editors. Pg. 235-242.
Selected full text coverage of 240+ newspapers and other news sources.
Bishop, Elizabeth. "In the waiting room"
Prompt 9 - Writing the short-short, flash nonfiction
Nye, Naomi Shehab. "Mint snowball" from In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction, Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, editors. New York : W.W. Norton, 1996, Pg. 94-95
An introduction to statistics with emphasis on applications. Topics include the description of data with numerical summaries and graphs, the production of data through sampling and experimental design, techniques of making inferences from data such as confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests for both categorical and quantitative data. The course includes an introduction to computer analysis of data with a statistical computing package.