Introduction to Creative Writing. This course examines the process and product of creative writing. Topics include stages of creative writing from invention and imagination to description and dramatization. Students will practice writing in the various genres. Assignments also address issues such as the relations of authors' autobiographies to their art, and the need to craft concrete metaphors to represent abstract ideas.
Students examine and practice procedures common to all kinds of academic and professional writing.
Particular attention is given to editing, revising, and evaluating prose forms. Not open to students who have taken ENGL 431. Studies in American Literature. A study of a significant movement in American literature, such as Transcendentalism, Romanticism, Naturalism and Realism, or a group of writers related regionally, ethnically or in some other special way. Topics in Writing.