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MWF 9:00-9:50

Thatcher Addition 2211

Textbook(s):

The Practice of Creative Writing

2

nd

ed Heather Sellers

Rhetorical Grammar

6

th

ed. Martha Kolln and Loretta Gray

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Course Requirements:

Students will read assignments in the textbooks, will participate in classroom exercises to start

imaginative writing, and work exercises and problems in grammar. The final grade in this class

is based upon classroom exercises and a portfolio of creative work that includes poetry, a short

fiction, a creative non fiction, a short play, and an analytical essay comparing the formal

elements of To Kill a Mockingbird and a work the student chooses. The textbooks chosen for

this class explain these formal elements.

Tentative Course Outline

Week 1 – 4 the role of reading in imaginative writing

Week 5 – 8 starting imaginative works

Week 9 - 12 revising imaginative works

Week 13 - 16 editing imaginative works and sharing them with others

General Education Goals/Objectives

Express ideas through effective writing

Sub-competencies:

• Use the stages of a writing process to develop, organize, and present ideas in writing.

• Analyze the demands and possible strategies of a writing task, based on topic, purpose, and

audience, and then accomplish that task with clarity, understanding, and sensitivity.

• Demonstrate competent college-level writing through finished written texts that typically

include a clear, original idea, appropriate evidence and support, and a style of language that

serves the writer’s purpose and audience.

• Use Edited Standard Written English in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax, and

present written work in a style and format consistent with the demands of an academic setting.

Read at a level that allows students to participate in collegiate studies and chosen careers

Sub-competencies:

• Anticipate and understand the structure and organization of written work.

• Recognize the purpose of a written text, and understand the rhetorical strategies used in a text