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3.00 Credits
This developmental writing course helps students eliminate major writing problems with essay organization, support, and mechanics. The course improves students' writing prior to enrollment in College Composition I. Students' progress is evaluated on the basis of a portfolio of their semester's work. A writing test determines student placement.
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3.00 Credits
Students who have failed College Composition I or Integrated College Composition I may be referred to a 3-credit course called Writing Lab Experience. These students receive an Incomplete grade for Freshman Composition on their transcript. Students who successfully complete Writing Lab Experience are awarded a Pass for WLE, and the incomplete in the CCI or Integrated course is replaced with a grade. Writing Lab Experience credits do not count towards graduation or General Education requirements. The course is restricted to students in the First-Year Writing Program.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score or fulfillment of developmental writing requirements This 4 credit intensive writing course provides work in essay organization, support, and mechanics. The course emphasizes the writing process and the development of writing skills. Students read and analyze the writing of professionals and peers. Completing this course fulfills the College Composition I writing requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score or fulfillment of developmental writing requirements This course teaches students to write competent expository prose. It emphasizes the writing process, including prewriting, drafting and rewriting skills. Students write frequently, both in and out of class. Students also read and analyze the work of professionals and peers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01111 or COMP 01105 or HONR 01111 College Composition II emphasizes critical thinking, reading, and writing as they relate to research and argumentation. Evaluation of information as well as exercises in critical thinking and research design build upon skills achieved in College Composition I. A major activity involves writing and documenting a research paper.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01111 or COMP 01105 or ENGR 01101 This course concentrates on developing students' skills in writing various kinds of poems and in developing fiction techniques. In addition to exploring different poetic forms, students learn how to create characters, establish conflict, and develop a plot while writing a short story. Students examine the work of professional poets and fiction writers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: WA 07290 or CRWR 07290 Building upon the foundations learned in Creative Writing I, students in Creative Writing II will engage in more specific practice in the conventions of short story writing, creative nonfiction and poetry. Students will have directed assignments encouraging experimentation in multiple genres but will prepare a final portfolio that may give more emphasis to a genre of their choice. Special emphasis will be placed on reading examples of these conventions and learning how writers graft or borrow techniques (dialogue, dramatic monologue, voice, description) from one genre to apply it in another.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 30 credits required This course focuses on fiction written for juveniles and young adults. Students examine the rich variety of literature published for young people. They do exercises, write complete stories, critique each other's writing in workshops and meet with the teacher for individual conferences on their work. They also learn how to submit manuscripts to magazine and book publishers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: WA 07290 or WA 07291 or CRWR 07290 or CRWR 07291 This class will provide a forum for students to explore the strategies fiction writers use in creative expression, especially in writing the short story. Students will develop an analytical vocabulary that allows them to read, interpret, and evaluate the work of other fiction writers. A major portion of the class will be given over to workshop sessions, where students can share and evaluate each other's work. Students will also become familiar with a body of published short stories that illustrate techniques of expression such as setting, point of view, characterization, dialogue, and other elements of fiction.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: WA 07291 or Permission of Instructor This course covers the methods of developing and writing a play. During the course, students analyze plays, and outline and work on the draft of a full-length play. This course may not be offered annually.
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