From the beginning the student will be encouraged to be more venturesome and ambitious in the writing of short fiction. As a general procedure the student does not write to specific assignment, but there are regular deadlines to meet. A somewhat larger body of work is required than in Rhetoric 144. Readings from an anthology of contemporary short stories will be regularly assigned. This third level workshop continues the writing of fiction at a more advanced level.
Students meet regular deadlines and work on projects of their own design.
Students will be required to submit their own poems for criticism from the class as well as complete assigned exercises throughout the semester. Instructors will assign various texts. In addition, poems by established American poets will be mimeographed and distributed periodically for analysis and discussion. This is a workshop course wherein students are expected to submit poems which will then be discussed by the rest of the class. Exercises will be assigned periodically throughout the semester as they are needed, but students should be prepared to write essentially on their own.