Students learn and practice fundamental skills for writing short fiction and personal essays. Assigned readings in non-fiction and fiction serve as inspirational models for student work. Creative exercises aid in the development of narrative and descriptive skills; class and professor critiques facilitate draft refinement. Writing creatively, according to the dictates of the imagination, improves students’ writing skills and enhances critical thinking.
3 credits
Prerequisite: Writing Essentials or successful placement into English Composition