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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 12:41PM 
Where to Get Published: click here
Poets and Writers Magazine: list of places to get published
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SYLLABUS:
CANVAS STUFF:
INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2017:
How to POST your essay for workshop
How to READ an essay that is posted
Here are instructions for how to post your essay to ELMS. click here
Additional, older insturctions are below:
- Student Guide to Canvas
- How to post assignments for grading
- How to "see" your instructor's comments on graded work
- How to post essays for workshop
- How to post responses to workshop essays
- Online Portfolio Submissions
- How to create an e-portfolio
- How to create an e-portfolio, FALL 2013
WRITING PROMPTS
Story
GRADING RUBRICS:
RUBRIC FOR END OF SEMESTER: Portfolio Checklist
ASSIGNMENTS AND HANDOUTS:
Reflective Writing
Publisher Analysis Samples
Query Letter Samples
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Fake news, Satire, Click Bait and knowing difference
- Lucky That Way: getting published
- Lucky That Way: questions for student discussion
- Lucky That Way: Writing Prompts
- Lucky That Way: How to Write a Book Blurb (elevator pitch)
- Memoir: Everything is Copy
- Published student essay: Riveter
- Published student essay: Gravel
- Revision: Imapala, etc.
Places to use your blurb/pitch:
- as part of a proposal for a publisher
- for your e-books online sales page on Amazon, Kobo, B&N etc.
- as content for your website page or your blogs’ “About” page
- for your submission for a contest
- for your application as a “Writer in Residency”
- editors or journalists need a blurb for an article on you and your book
- as your book blurb for the person introducing you in an interview or a writers’ panel
GETTING A JOB
- Resume workshop
- Resumes.fall2014
- Resume.revised
- Joe Interview questions
- Student websites
- Student websites
Media Bistro : http://www.mediabistro.com/joblistings/?nav=mdj
Journalism Jobs : http://www.journalismjobs.com
Craig's List : http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/search/wri?query=+
ASJA, AWP: join an org
USING SOURCES/ADDING SOURCES TO CREATIVE NONFICTION:
AUDIENCE:
LAB EXERCISES:
- Line Editing: fixing sentences
confused sentences confused sentences revised tight writing passive voice clarity
grammar: top 20 errors, for big screen
nominalizations nominalizations revised
STYLE: Creating Mature, Professional-Level sentences
- Global Editing: Fixing Content
costco, costco final sammy's, sammy revised clinton rough, ely rough, ely extra mona lisa rough, mona lisa ruf, mona lisa edited, techno essay revised student essay: technoskeptic aol aol.368
Liz Fixen's collection of Style Exercises
READINGS:
Fun essay from Amy Poehler
The Wire: Life in Baltimore
Andre Dubus, Railroad Sketches
Robbed in PG County: blogs
Robbed in PG County: story
Jarhead links: map
Forever War/XX Files discussion
Video, The Kiss, Still on the Couch
Talking AIDS To Death -- PDF version
For more readings, go to helpful links at top of the page.
DOCUMENT DESIGN:
Document design: fonts cover letter specs cover letter
professional manuscript format
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Writer's Center
Elements of Narrative Nonfiction
How to break into narative nonfiction and get published
AUDIENCE:
Query Letters
Getting Published
Where to Get Published: click here
Poets and Writers Magazine: list of places to get published
Readings for Class Discussion
Video, The Kiss, Still on the Couch
Bob Greene: Didion/Greene -- style
A series of short pieces, some bettter than others: Follow My Blog
Cowbird: A website dedicated to short pieces
Writing Prompts
- Lucky That Way: Writing Prompts
- Writing prompt: a misunderstanding
- Prompt: You knew you would be okay
- Prompt: You knew you were in the right place
DOCUMENT DESIGN:
Document design: fonts cover letter specs cover letter
professional manuscript format
Adding Sources
391
Topic Approval Formand Outline
Signal phrases: how to add sources using "professional" style
Zinsser Chapter 9: Beginnings and Endings
PROPOSAL ARGUMENTS IN THE REAL WORLD
1. MR. KHAN'S SPEECH AT 2016 DNC
2. TRUMP'S REPSONSE
3. MRS. KHAN'S REPSONSE
391 Assignment Sheets
All Assignments, click here orals
Progress Report: Proposal Paper
Labs
- Line Editing: fixing sentences
confused sentences tight writing passive voice clarity
grammar: top 20 errors, for big screen
nominalizations nominalizations revised
STYLE: Creating Mature, Professional-Level sentences
- Global Editing:
AUDIENCE:
DOCUMENT DESIGN:
Document design: fonts cover letter specs cover letter
cover letter for proposal projects
GETTING A JOB
Media Bistro : http://www.mediabistro.com/joblistings/?nav=mdj
Journalism Jobs : http://www.journalismjobs.com
Craig's List : http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/search/wri?query=+
ASJA, AWP: join an org