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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | ENGLH238B001 |
Course Title | Creative Nonfiction Workshop |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | English |
Instructor | Funderburg,Lise |
Times and Days | F 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | WDS |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2404 Creative Nonfiction Workshop In this workshop-centered class, students will write and revise two pieces (1000-1250 words each) enlisting the personal essay and memoir forms. In shorter assignments, class exercises, and discussions of readings (from such writers as Joan Didion, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jonathan Lethem, Barry Lopez, and Naomi Shihab Nye), we will address technical issues such as structure, narrative tension, transition, character development, dialogue, interviewing, point of view, imagery, and metaphor, as well as tone and personal voice. In addition, students will complete a small but important assignment, going out into the literary world and partaking in one event.; Enrollment Limit: 15; Lottery Preference(s): Students who register and submit an acceptable writing sample; where more than the limit register, instructor will decide based on writing samples Humanities (HU) |
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