ENG2261 FICTION WRITING
3 Credit Hour
Student Level:
This course is open to students on the college level in the sophomore year.
Catalog Description:
ENG2261 - Fiction Writing (3 hrs.)
A course designed to analyze fiction and encourage the writing skills of students through use of various methods of brainstorming and fiction writing. Emphasis is on identifying and analyzing writing elements and techniques, generating ideas, modeling professional fiction writing, and critiquing and revising one’s own writing and the works of others. Critical analysis of writings will be used to aid in developing students’ thinking, support of thesis/message, and style.
Course Classification:
Lecture
Prerequisites:
A grade of C or higher in ENG2260 Creative Writing or instructor approval.
Controlling Purpose:
This course is designed to allow students to experiment with different types of fiction writing, primarily short stories. Writing is a means of self-expression and a means of communicating emotions, ideas, history, and perception of the world and the human condition. Through writing and the reading of short fiction, students become aware of how to express ideas and truths in a fictional mode.
Learner Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course students will be able to brainstorm ideas, organize the ideas, and compose fictional works. Various techniques involved in brainstorming of ideas will be learned so that students know the methods that work best for them.
Unit Outcomes for Criterion Based Evaluation:
The following outline defines the minimum core content not including the final examination period. Instructors may add other material as time allows.
Unit 1: Identifying Elements and Techniques
Outcomes: Student will be able to identify fiction writing elements and techniques.
- Identify a variety of writing elements and techniques in published literary works.
- Collect expressive ideas, responses and reflections in a journal.
Unit 2: Analyze Elements of Craft in Published Works
Outcomes: Student will be able to analyze elements of fiction writing in published works and apply these to their own writing.
- Analyze published literary works to determine elements utilized.
- Pattern compositions after professional models of writing.
Unit 3: Drafting and Revising Creative Works
Outcomes: Student will be able to assess ideas, write, and revise a complete fictional story.
- Select prewriting ideas most likely to convey creative expression effectively.
- Focus on a style consistent with fiction writing.
- Develop complete drafts.
- Critique student’s own draft as well as drafts of other students to determine if the intended objective of a story has been achieved.
- Assess effectiveness of draft and validity of instructor feedback.
- Reconstruct stories in response to comments and comparisons.
- Closely analyze text to eliminate extraneous words and sentences, redundancies, and unnecessary sections.
Unit 4: Editing
Outcomes: Student will produce a finished work consistent with standards of correctness.
- Assemble grammatically correct structure.
- Produce text free of incorrect spelling.
- Maintain consistency in person, subject, voice, tense, and mood.
Unit 5: Presentation of Ideas
Outcomes: Student will understand techniques for oral presentation.
- Understand variety of presentation techniques.
- Decide on presentation techniques for an original work.
- Critique oral presentations of fiction.
Projects Required:
Completion of a minimum of four major creative works as assigned by instructor. Compilation of portfolio.
Textbook:
Contact Bookstore for current textbook.
Attendance Policy:
Students should adhere to the attendance policy outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Grading Policy:
The grading policy will be outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Maximum class size:
12 students hybrid or F2F
20 students online
Course Time Frame:
The U.S. Department of Education, Higher Learning Commission and the Kansas Board of Regents define credit hour and have specific regulations that the college must follow when developing, teaching and assessing the educational aspects of the college. A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester hour of credit or an equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time. The number of semester hours of credit allowed for each distance education or blended hybrid courses shall be assigned by the college based on the amount of time needed to achieve the same course outcomes in a purely face-to-face format.
Refer to the following policies:
402.00 Academic Code of Conduct
263.00 Student Appeal of Course Grades
403.00 Student Code of Conduct
Disability Services Program:
Cowley College, in recognition of state and federal laws, will accommodate a student with a documented disability. If a student has a disability which may impact work in this class which requires accommodations, contact the Disability Services Coordinator.
DISCLAIMER: THIS INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR THE OFFICIAL COURSE PROCEDURE CONTACT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS.
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