ENGL3800W: Intro Creative Writ (28014)
Warren, Hannah
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10:20 AM
Park Hall 67
Introduction to Creative Writing
Honing your writing skills requires two major elements: reading a lot and writing a lot. In this course, you’ll immerse yourself in your own writing, your peers’ writing, and published writing. We’ll closely examine poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (and some things in between) by a diverse line-up of authors, discussing how we as readers react to their writing and how they achieve those effects. Genre-writing and experimental writing are welcome in this course.
Nearly every week, you’ll turn in a piece of writing you’ve composed, some of which we’ll discuss together as a class. Then, at the end of our course, you’ll craft a portfolio to showcase how your writing has grown during the semester. I encourage you to push your boundaries—to write the unexpected, the strange, the challenging—as you experiment with voice and form. The goals for this course are as follows: to compose in multiple genres, to read through a craft perspective, to improve your ability to talk about writing in an insightful and meaningful way, and to revise your own work.
