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  • WRI 208: Technical Writing in the Information Age

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    Focuses on the traditional components of professional communication as well as its current trends and areas of future development. Students learn the theory and practices of technical writing as well as the techniques and formats routinely required in industry, business, government, and social services. Through selected course projects students will step-by-step build a writing portfolio that will leave them job ready. Prerequisite: ENG 101 or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 211: Beginning Creative Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    An introductory writing course that focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and techniques essential to successful creative writing. It is open to writers and aspiring writers of various levels of ability providing course prerequisites have been met. Genres treated include poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. While much of the course consists of a workshop format, lectures and class discussions cover such topics as sentence effectiveness, writer's block, dynamics of language, metaphor, meter, characterization, plotting, dialogue, narrative point of view, scene construction, revision, and publication. Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of B- or better, or permission of instructor. Offered pass/fail or for a letter grade at the option of the instructor. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 226: Copyediting & Proofreading

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    This course will teach students the basics of proofreading and copyediting for print and electronic publications such as newspapers, magazines, books, journals, and web sites. Students will be introduced to standard publication processes and the major styles, reference works, and tools of editorial work. Emphasis will be placed on the development of skills in proofreading, copyediting, and editorial judgment, as students learn the different functions of proofreaders and copyeditors, the vocabulary of print and document design, and acquire a good understanding of the editorial tasks involved in taking manuscripts into print. Prerequisite: ENG 101, WRI 207, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 308: Creative Nonfiction Writing:Intermediate

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    Follows ENG 233 Techniques of Creative Nonfiction in the creative writing sequence. This course allows writers to explore and experiment with many forms of creative nonfiction prose writing: the essay in its many garbs (disguises), the article, the memoir, the commentary, the interview, the review, and other hybrids currently being invented. Students begin with the personal essay and move into whatever form interests each writer as he/she puts together a portfolio of creative nonfiction. Aside from some lecture and discussion, the course employs principally a workshop format. Prerequisite WRI 211, a 200-level techniques course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 309: Topics in Intermediate Creative Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    An opportunity for workshop-based writing courses in genres other than poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and for writing courses that otherwise choose a focus beyond these designated genres (as a recent example, Writing from Life). Prerequisite: WRI 211, a 200-level techniques course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 352: Fiction Writing:Intermediate

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    Follows ENG 231 Techniques of Fiction in the creative writing sequence. A course on the writing of fiction, including such elements as story construction, narrative point of view, character, voice, and dialogue. Students will apply these elements both in exercises and in drafts of their own stories. Aside from some lecture and discussion, the course employs principally a workshop format. Offered pass/fail. Prerequisite: WRI 211, a 200-level techniques course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 353: Poetry Writing:Intermediate

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    Follows ENG 232 Techniques of Poetry in the creative writing sequence and is intended for those students interested in pursuing the art of poetry writing. The course will function as a workshop or writer's group, in which both assigned exercises and works-in-progress by each student are read and critiqued by the other writers in the class and by the instructor. In addition, as class interest and need dictates, blocks of time may be devoted to lecture and/or discussion of the tools of prosody, particularly as they relate to the students' own writing. Prerequisite: WRI 211,a 200-level techniques course, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 414: Grant and Proposal Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    An introduction to the art and science of preparing grant proposals for nonprofit organizations. Emphasis is placed on writing and research skills. By examining the nature and interests of granting agencies and applicant organizations, students learn the importance of relationship-building and how to match funding needs with appropriate grant opportunities. The preparation of mock grant proposals takes students through the entire grant application cycle of need definition, grant research, program and budget planning, proposal writing, submission/review/funding, and post-award administration. Prerequisite: Knowledge of nonprofit/public organizations, writing ability, and Internet skills. 3 Cr
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  • WRI 471: Advanced Creative Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    A workshop for writers at an advanced level. The course is interdisciplinary in scope. Participants work in a variety of genres. Any given class might include novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, and writers in creative nonfiction. Students will submit work on a regular basis for class critiquing and will read and critique the work of others in the class. Some work submitted might include revised versions of previously submitted work. Prerequisite: 300-level writing course or permission of instructor. Offered pass/fail. 3 Cr
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  • WST 110: Intro to Women's Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Machias

    This course examines women's positions in and contributions to society, exploring the genesis, development, and impact of our culture's assumptions about women's nature and women's roles. As an interdisciplinary study of women's experience in cross-cultural and historical perspective, the course investigates women's personal and public lives, and seeks to identify and understand the particularly "female" aspects of these experiences. Students are introduced to the issues, perspectives, and findings of this relatively new field of scholarship, which examines the role of gender in the construction of knowledge. Prerequisite: ENG 101 or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
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