Creative Writing Syllabus Course Description: This trimester-
long course focuses on writing for publication in two genres:
poetry and fiction. The purpose of this class is to encourage
students to cultivate the habits, attitudes and flexibility of a
professional writer in a professional writing community.
Students will practice writing like a reader and reading like a
writer. Students will be expected to enter final products into
professional and/or student contests, confer with the
instructor, participate in writer response groups, read
contemporary published authors, keep and regularly write in a
writer’s notebook, and experiment with and revise writing
routinely. What is creative writing? Creative writing is the art
of crafting a piece for publication. Notebook generating is just
one of the steps in the creative process. The true art of
writing includes not only the process of journaling or
generating, but also phases of reading, mentoring,
experimenting/revising, and editing. All final pieces you will
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