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ENGLISH 307-A : Advanced Reading and Writing Fiction I

Description

For students who have taken courses in fiction writing or who have been writing fiction on their own, ENGLISH 307-A offers further practice and study in the development of short stories. This intermediate-level course will focus on taking a first-draft story through a multi-stage revision process, increasing the story’s richness, urgency, and texture. Using prompts and other strategies, students quickly draft and workshop a new story. Then they will use expansion and layering techniques to deepen and further develop character, plot, and style, taking the story through a full, considered revision that will be workshopped a second time by the whole class. Reading and analyzing the structures and strategies of published stories will supplement writing and discussions. This course will meet remotely, with weekly remote synchronous sessions and at-home/asynchronous reading and writing. May not be audited or taken P/N.

Prerequisite: ENGLISH 207 or comparable courses in creative writing with permission of instructor. Students who have not completed ENGLISH 207 should obtain instructor's consent and confirmation of appropriate writing experience. Please send an email to the professor with your writing background to request a permission number once registration for winter quarter has opened on November 13, 2023.