07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W
Section Information for Spring 2019
This course is designed to teach creative writers how to find information and how to feed it seamlessly into a compelling nonfiction story or essay. The first part of the semester will focus on research and story-definition: how to find an appropriate topic, how to find information on that topic, how to keep track of the information you found, how to reshape the story now that you’ve found the information you thought you were looking for (and learned many things you hadn’t thought about), and how NOT to use everything you found in your research so that your piece is written in your own voice rather than in the many voices of your various sources and its overall structure rises out of the story you decided to tell rather than from the information you found. The second half of the semester will focus on your work in progress, in workshop discussions. The course is required for all MFA nonfiction students. MFA fiction and poetry students may take it for their out-of-genre credits. The course is also open to students in other Master’s Programs and to special students; however, anyone who takes the course should be familiar with literary (not academic or technical) nonfiction writing and have some idea of what a “nonfiction story” or an “essay” is.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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