ENGL 4493 Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

Studies and practice in the various genres of creative non-fiction.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 3393

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: ever other fall day

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Through practice with different approaches such as memoir, profile-writing, and immersion, students will gain deeper knowledge and appreciation of the broad genre of creative nonfiction and of the techniques that can make writing engaging in any genre, such as scene structure, dialogue, character development, precise detail, and figurative language.
2. Students will do original research beyond the web, including interviewing and onsite reporting, and will help fact-check each other’s work.
3. Students will improve their prose styles through practice with incorporating different grammatical structures into their writing and will become more sophisticated readers through analyzing the style of other writers.
4. Students will strengthen their editorial skills and learn the basics of submitting work for publication.
5. Students will make new discoveries about the creative process and about the subjects they choose to investigate.