ENG2263 JOURNAL WRITING/STORYTELLING
3 Credit Hours
Student Level:
This course is open to students on the college level in either the freshman or sophomore year.
Catalog Description:
ENG2263 - Journal Writing/Storytelling (3 hrs.)
A course designed to analyze writing and improve writing and storytelling skills of students through journal and nonfictional narrative writing. Emphasis is on identifying and analyzing writing elements and techniques, generating ideas, and critiquing and revising one’s own writing and the works of others. Critical analysis of writings will be used to aid in developing the student’s thinking, support of thesis/message and style.
Course Classification:
Lecture
Prerequisites:
A grade of C or higher in ENG2211 Composition I or instructor approval.
Controlling Purpose:
This course is designed to allow students to write what is generally called personal narrative writing. 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 personal narrative, students become aware of how writing may become more effective and storytelling can provide meaning to life experiences.
Learner Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course students will be able to use personal narrative writing to organize thoughts and ideas about experiences and the meaning of these experiences.
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 journal 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.
- Analyze published literary works to determine elements utilized.
Unit 2: Focusing and Generating Ideas
Outcomes: Student will be able to initiate a writing task.
- Generate ideas through a variety of prewriting techniques and exercises.
- Pattern nonfictional stories after professional models of writing.
- Recognize recurring themes in personal journal.
Unit 3: Drafting Creative Works
Outcomes: Student will be able to assess ideas and write a complete story based on experiences/feelings.
- Select prewriting ideas most likely to convey creative expression effectively.
- Focus on a style consistent with nonfictional writing/storytelling.
- Organize writings/ideas consistent with model works.
- Expand journal writings to include appropriate openings and closings for theme development.
- Develop complete drafts(s).
Unit 4: Revising/Editing
Outcomes: Student will strengthen creative works through revision and editing.
- Critique student’s own draft as well as drafts of other students to determine if the intended objective of a story has been achieved.
- Reconstruct stories in response to comments and comparisons.
- Closely analyze text to eliminate extraneous words and sentences, redundancies, and unnecessary sections, as well as to incorporate figurative language.
- Incorporate figurative language to develop depth to theme.
- 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.
Projects Required:
Completion of journal writings. 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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