Overview
Description
Development of senior portfolio for English Writing majors, including conducting research into appropriate professional venues or opportunities for student writing, composing new pieces appropriate for those opportunities, and revising collegiate writing to a professional level.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- assemble a polished writing portfolio targeted to specific professional writing goals, using effective drafting, revision, and editing strategies in several nonfiction genres.
- revise effectively for style, using readers’ feedback, with attention to such qualities as clarity, concision, coherence, and variety.
- conduct rhetorical inquiry into professional and academic contexts and purposes for advanced nonfiction writing.
- critically discuss key genres and documents of creative nonfiction and professional writing such as narrative journalism, memoir, proposal, and investigative report.
- select, draft, and polish appropriate materials for graduate school, publication, and job-seeking in professional writing.