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ADVANCED PROSE WRITING SYLLABUS: Fall 2004

Note: * = new assignment , à = rough draft due, è = final draft due

 CP = course pamphlet

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

1

8/24

·         Introduction to the course

·         Diagnostic writing.

8/26

·         The research project for the course.

·         Audience

·         Creative Non-fiction: what is it?

·         Reading:  Ashes of August -- CP

2

8/31

·         Creative Non-fiction: what is it?     

·         What makes good writing. ?

* Assignment 1:  Critical Review

·         Readings

 

9/02

·         Work on Critical Review

à Due: Rough draft, Assignment 1:  summary                           

 

                         

3

9/07  

·         Work on Critical Review. 

à Due:  Rough draft Assignment 1

 

9/09

·         Critical review

àRough draft

·         Initial project proposal—written in class

4

9/14

è Due: Critical Review

·         Sentence style/readability

* Place assignment

9/16

·         Place exercise

5

9/21

à Place assignment rough draft

9/23

è Due: Place Assignment final draft

·         Sentence style

*  Proposals

6

9/28

à Proposal rough drafts:  objectives, problem

9/30

à Proposal rough drafts: methods/abstracts

7

10/5

·         Proposal rough drafts: background and other sections

à Due: Abstracts of articles

10/07

·         Proposals

à Due: background rough draft

8

10/12

è Due: Proposal

·         Sentence style

*  Interview section (assignment 4)

10/14

·         Interview techniques

9

10/19

àDue: interview questions

 

10/21

à Rough draft—assignment 4


 

 

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

10

10/26

à Rough draft assignment 4

10/28 

à Rough draft assignment 4

11

11/02

è Due: Assignment 4

·         Sentence style

* Section of final essay (assignment 5)

11/04

·         Work on assignment 5
 

12

11/09

à Assignment 5 rough drafts

11/11

à Assignment 5 rough drafts

13

11/16

è Due: Assignment 5

·         Sentence style

11/18

·         Revising and folding sections together

·         How to give oral reports

 

Fall Break

Fall Break

14

11/30

è Oral reports

 

12/02

è Oral reports. 

è Final Essay Due

15

12/07

è Oral reports

* Summaries

 

12/09

è Oral reports (no absences permitted)

è Due: Assignment 7, Short version of final essay