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The successful public relations practitioner must write persuasively for a wide array of communication tools, including newsletters, brochure copy, speechwriting, Web content, advertising copy, annual reports, backgrounders, and news releases. This course prepares participants to write in a range of professional marketing formats, culminating in a communications toolkit of coordinated writing projects. Prerequisites: WR 310 & CPR 412, or equivalent experience with instructor consent; degree or certificate program admission required. A Professional Writing course. 3 crs.
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In this seminar, students explore current composition theory and pedagogy for tutors and potential teachers. Through the lens of the tutorial process, students reflect on the educational significance and interpersonal richness of the teaching and tutoring experience, coming to terms with important philosophical and psychological implications of writing pedagogy. Prerequisites: one upper-division writing course and permission of department chair. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
Students can earn credit through internships that stress professional writing by tutoring at the Writing Center, or via service learning projects that stress literacy activism. Prerequisites: permission of department chair. 1-3 crs.
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This advanced course will explore the techniques and characteristics of creative nonfiction writing in the workshop setting. Students engage in writing exercises, discussions of the assigned readings, and critiques of student work. Th0e workshop structure emphasizes the revision process. Prerequisites: Writing Seminar I course and permission of instructor or department chair. 3 crs.
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This advanced course explores poetry in all its variety. Students will be expected to write regularly, to share their work with the class, to read a wide range of published poetry and essays about poetry, and to engage in a dialogue about the very nature of poetry. Students also consider the larger issues of the creative process, poetic form and technique, historical context, and strategies for disarming the inner critic. Prerequisites: Writing Seminar I course and permission of instructor or department chair. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
With the understanding that students have mastered the basics of writing fiction, this advanced workshop encourages risk-taking in the creative process and respect for the writer. Students concentrate on sharpening the language and focus of their work, and the course investigates by what means writers engross readers in their fictional world. A range of representative short fiction is used as a point of reference for discussing how voice, dramatization, significant detail, and other elements can be improved in students' own work. Prerequisites: Writing Seminar I course and permission of instructor or department chair. 3 crs.
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Students with a strong interest in a screenwriting work at an advanced level to hone their skills. Students must read each other's work closely and critically as well as instructive examples of successful screenplays. Prerequisites: Writing Seminar I course and permission of instructor or department chair. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
M REVIEW This hands-on workshop engages students in editing, copywriting, production, and Web design for Marylhurst University's online journal of literary and visual art, M Review. Students interested in writing (both creative and professional), art, Web design, or blogging are welcome. Students enroll for credit or participate without enrolling with a flexible time commitment. Students from all disciplines are welcome. See M Review at http://www. marylhurst.edu/mreview/. Variable credit.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to revise earlier work from a Writing Seminar II in preparation for graduate school applications or publication. By the end of the course, students will have the beginnings of a polished manuscript to send to M.F.A. programs, to send out for submission to literary journals, or to prepare as a chapbook. 3 crs.
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3.00 Credits
Students work together in this course in peer writing groups and one-on-one tutorials with the instructor to develop and research a topic for their senior thesis. The completed thesis serves as the capstone piece for the English Literature and Writing major and is included as part of the student's English Literature and Writing Portfolio. Prerequisites: completion of core courses for major, WR 323, and senior status. Meets LAC outcomes: SS1, SS3. Core requirement for major. 3 crs. confluence where the biological, psychological, social, and cultural meet. Meets LAC outcome: HCC1. 3 crs.
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