HZ9203 Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction Division of English, Nanyang Technological University Semester 1, AY 2018/19 Day and Time: Mondays, 2:30-5:30 PM Location: HSS-TR+2 Seminar Leader: Assistant Professor Barrie Sherwood Contact Details: Office: HSS 03-64 Office Hours: TBA Pre-requisite: HZ9101 What is non-fiction? What are its forms? This course comprises: 1) the generation of new writing via exercises designed to help the student recognize the world as the potential of non-fiction; 2) the study of published work with a view to recognizing and utilizing technique; and 3) the critiquing of original work by students in a workshop setting. Each student will be responsible for presenting work to the class in a workshop setting during the course; a schedule will be drawn up early in the semester. These works in progress will be distributed in hard copy to all other students and to me the week before the piece is due to be discussed. Generally pieces should be between three and seven double-spaced pages. Each student in the class will critique each presented piece and return this to the writer at the end of the discussion. Discussion will centre on the writerly aspects of essays, lyric essays, sketches, reviews, biographies and other forms of non-fiction, but there will also be some emphasis on what it feels like to engage with an idea and to bring it through a process towards some realization. In addition to the reading required in the course I would like each student to write a short critical self-commentary about their own writing context, models and/or process. This can be a reflective essay, a critical essay, a manifesto, some form of reading journal or a statement of aesthetics. We will be together for three hours each week and I would like these classes to have the feel of a discussion. I know that everyone has varying levels of willingness to talk in class, but I hope we can create the right atmosphere in which everyone can feel like participating in whatever we are discussing.
HZ9203 Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction Division of English, Nanyang Technological University Semester 1, AY 2018/19 Day and Time: Mondays, 2:30-5:30 PM Location: HSS-TR+2 Seminar Leader: Assistant Professor Barrie Sherwood Contact Details: Office: HSS 03-64 Office Hours: TBA Pre-requisite: HZ9101 What is non-fiction? What are its forms? This course comprises: 1) the generation of new writing via exercises designed to help the student recognize the world as the potential of non-fiction; 2) the study of published work with a view to recognizing and utilizing technique; and 3) the critiquing of original work by students in a workshop setting. Each student will be responsible for presenting work to the class in a workshop setting during the course; a schedule will be drawn up early in the semester. These works in progress will be distributed in hard copy to all other students and to me the week before the piece is due to be discussed. Generally pieces should be between three and seven double-spaced pages. Each student in the class will critique each presented piece and return this to the writer at the end of the discussion. Discussion will centre on the writerly aspects of essays, lyric essays, sketches, reviews, biographies and other forms of non-fiction, but there will also be some emphasis on what it feels like to engage with an idea and to bring it through a process towards some realization. In addition to the reading required in the course I would like each student to write a short critical self-commentary about their own writing context, models and/or process. This can be a reflective essay, a critical essay, a manifesto, some form of reading journal or a statement of aesthetics. We will be together for three hours each week and I would like these classes to have the feel of a discussion. I know that everyone has varying levels of willingness to talk in class, but I hope we can create the right atmosphere in which everyone can feel like participating in whatever we are discussing.
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