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:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Deepen their understanding of creative nonfiction by studying the works of selected professional writers, with sustained attention on at least one booklength work.
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.
Continue to develop research skills.
Develop critical skills by responding to each other’s drafts.
Recognize and submit their work to appropriate literary markets.
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.
Develop their revision/editing skills to become their own best editors.
Learn to perform their work.