King, Joshua
MWF 1 :50 PM
Park Hall 0061
“What Remains of Edith Finch” Screenshot by Dan Seitz
This is a course about writing. We’ll study writing processes, written style, rhetorical appeals, and advanced revision techniques. You’ll work on sustained pieces of writing across multiple drafts and receive regular feedback from me and your peers helping you develop your ideas, structures, and stylistic choices. You’ll learn new techniques for brainstorming, drafting, and proofreading, and you’ll find helpful resources on writing and the research process.
This is also a course about games. We’ll study writing and rhetoric through the lens of games and game design: after all, games’ player-centered interactivity can show us a lot about crafting our writing for specific audiences. And the iterative process of designing a game--making a prototype, testing it with players, adjusting it around players’ frustrations, then testing it again--is a lot like the writing process. In this class, you’ll study how games use writing and interactivity to engage their players, you’ll use game-inspired iteration and revision to produce a work of sustained research on a topic of your choosing, and you’ll prototype, test, and finalize a full game of your own.
