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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course helps students learn to write for an audience that wants factual information for practical use. This specialized information is usually directed to a specific audience which already has familiarity with the field. Professional technical journals provide the primary sources for this writing, as do technical reports written for business and government use.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare students in all disciplines to teach, tutor, and supervise the writing of high school students and college undergraduates. The course will offer an introduction to the major trends in composition theory and research, as well as practice. It will also develop the technical and interpersonal skills necessary for effective instruction. Students will closely examine their own writing process and style. To fulfill the required laboratory element of this course, students will spend time each week working with a mentor in the Writing Center. Prerequisite: First Year Seminar and permission. Also listed as Education 313.
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3.00 Credits
See Writing 324 for a description of this course.
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore the craft of metafiction, fiction that deliberately undermines and resists the conventions of traditional fiction. Students will read examples of metafiction, a genre marked by great humor and invention, and write carefully constructed metafiction of their own. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
See Writing 328 for a description of this course.
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3.00 Credits
See Writing 320 for a description of this course
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3.00 Credits
This course explores professional opportunities in publishing and provides direct experience assembling a book. Students will learn how to copyedit-as well as explore other editorial positions in a publishing house. In order to make the experience of editing real, there will be a professional project associated with this class: assembling a book for the Lindsay-Crane Book Series, compiling a magazine, screening and editing manuscripts for contests and writing competitions sponsored by Hiram. Students will learn not only how to line edit, but also how to make important aesthetic decisions. The vocabulary, technique, and art of publishing and editing will all be addressed and employed. Prerequisite: Writing 221, Comm 240, or permission.
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4.00 Credits
Literary journalism has its roots in the early work of Daniel Defoe, but in the last few decades has come into its own-a genre marked by distinct conventions of style, form, and sensibility. Students will read samples of work by several generations of literary journalists who have shaped (and continue to shape) the genre-work by writers like George Orwell, Stephen Crane, Norman Mailer, Lillian Ross, Tom Wolfe, Mark Singer, Lauren Slater, Annie Dillard, Mark Kramer, John McPhee, Joan Didion, Michael Pollan, Edmund Morris, Ian Frazier, Jonathan Rosen, David Foster Wallace, Mary Roach, Barry Lopez, as well as new voices emerging every day. They will write a long piece of immersion journalism themselves, joining the ongoing conversation nonfiction writers are having about this inventive and important form in American letters. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
This is an intensive writing course. The combination of reading and writing will inspire student insights into science and nature. The course will cover such topics as evolution, genetic research, and the romantic lure of the natural world, and focuses on constructing prose about scientific issues in a manner that is accessible to a popular audience. Class assignments will reflect this goal. Course books will acquaint students with scientific and environmental issues from historical, aesthetic, and medical perspectives. Students will learn to write, summarize, and analyze articles about science and nature and to synthesize historical scientific information- the findings of Darwin, for example-with current scientific and ecological issues and thought. While the class concentrates on scientific issues, it will be crucial to speculate on what these issues mean for our society. Therefore, students will deepen their understanding of how scientific issues intersect with our democracy and culture-at -large. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
Memoir, with its roots in the personal essay, uses the techniques of fiction and other literary genres to allow writers to remember and discover their lives through a specific theme or lens. Students will be asked to read and review several contemporary memoirs and to write a short memoir of their own. Workshops will be central, and students must be willing to read their own work as well as comment on the work of others. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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