- Instructor: Christopher Conley
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- Instructor: Susannah Howe
- Instructor: Glenn Ellis
- Instructor: Susannah Howe
- Instructor: Susannah Howe
- Instructor: Mike Kinsinger
- Instructor: Susannah Howe
- Instructor: George Katsaros
- Instructor: Nancy Shumate
- Instructor: Torleif Persson
- Instructor: Torleif Persson
ENG 125-04 Course Description
This course enables students to hone skills in writing creatively within the genres of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Over the semester, you’ll acquire essential tools for telling your stories — for choosing effective “form(s)” and language for the ideas, visions and emotions you wish to communicate. Students will draft, workshop, and revise three pieces of writing over the course of the semester, one each in the genres of creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction.
Class learning includes participation in “workshop” sessions in which student work is read aloud and critiqued in a group setting. There will also be in-class writing exercises and discussions about process and revision. Students will be assigned to breakout groups for small group discussion during the week [all groups listed in the ENG 125-04 S’24 Shared Google Drive and will have particular responsibility for providing in- depth peer evaluations of the drafts of the other students in their breakout group at specified moments in the term. All students will also be expected to supply comments on shorter pieces-in-process posted on ENG 125-04 S'24 Word-Press by all the students in the course.
Assigned readings on craft will introduce, exemplify and enhance your understanding of particular aspects of craft and technique within the three genres of our focus. And because all serious writers learn the most important writerly lessons from masterful examples, we’ll also examine each genre through a variety of readings exemplifying practice within each genre.
- Instructor: Naomi Miller
In terms of subject matter, we'll be writing about art, music, perfume, fashion, and especially food. In the first weeks of the class we'll work on the mechanics of description and style. In the latter weeks, we'll apply those skills by availing ourselves of campus resources - the museum of art, the botanic garden, places to eat, to test our skills against real life source materials.
While we will be reading texts from writers who are masters of sense description each week, our real emphasis will be on practice. We'll build skills with exercises and short assignments in class and out of it, remembering always that simply by being alive we have the tools we need to build powerful stories and memorable worlds.
- Instructor: T. Chang
- Instructor: Nancy Shumate
- Instructor: Nancy Shumate
- Instructor: George Katsaros
- Instructor: Robert Hosmer
- Instructor: Robert Hosmer
- Instructor: Michael Thurston
- Instructor: Robert Hosmer