ENG 466 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing

Description:
Intensive workshop further developing the techniques of writing creative nonfiction: researching, editing, assimilating features of fiction and poetry, and experimenting with structure, voice, and style. Reading professional models to learn technique. ENG 466 and ENG 566 are layered courses; a student may not receive credit for both.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: ENG 366.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments

Learner Outcome	Activity (optional)	Assessment
1. Students will deepen their understanding of creative nonfiction by studying the works of selected professional writers, with sustained attention on at least one booklength work.		1. Students will be quizzed on the reading.
2. Students will develop their oral presentation skills by presenting their knowledge of the craft and/or a particular creative nonfiction writer or work and/or each other’s work.		2. Students will conduct a workshop and/or present information about a creative nonfiction work or writer.
3. Students will continue to develop research skills.		3. Students will write at least one work derived primarily from research, including inteviews and immersion.
4. Students will develop critical skills by responding to each other’s drafts.		4. Students will produce written peer reviews and discuss them in class.
5. Students will learn to recognize and submit their work to appropriate literary markets.		5. Students will do research to locate appropriate literary publications, write cover letters, and prepare a precis or finished piece appropriate for consideration by an editor or literary agent.
6. Students will learn learn how to articulate the effectiveness of “voice” and will learn to develop their own individual voices, modulating tone and experimenting with irony as appropriate.		6. Students will complete exercises to develop voice, including imitation exercises.
7. Students will develop their revision/editing skills to become their own best editors.		7. Students will revise and submit their essays in a final portfolio.
8. Students will learn to perform their work.		8. Students will be required to read excerpts from their original work aloud as part of a class reading.