ENG 225W - Introduction to Creative Writing

3 credit(s) Writing Intensive
A workshop course that introduces students to basic techniques in the writing of short fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. Weekly assignments focus on developing skill in such elements of creative writing as character development, plot, dialogue, metaphor and image, and versification, among others. Reading of both student work and published work will provide a basis for discussion and practice of technique in this course. Completion of this course enables students to register for upper-division writing seminars in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and the personal essay.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore or higher standing or permission of instructor.

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