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course material

Follow My Blog

 My website

Where to Get Published: click here

Poets and Writers Magazine: list of places to get published

 

GRADE SCALE


 The What versus The Why


398R

SYLLABUS:   

 

CANVAS STUFF:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2017:

How to POST your essay for workshop

How to READ an essay that is posted

HOW TO VIEW YOUR GRADED WORK

Here are instructions for how to post your essay to ELMS. click here

Additional, older insturctions are below:

 

WRITING PROMPTS

CLICK HERE: WRITING PROMPTS

 

FALL2016 WRITING PROMPTS

 

Story

George Saunders

 

CAPTIONED VIDEOS

Nora Ephron

 

GRADING RUBRICS:

Grading Rubric 

Grading Rubric II

Participation Rubric

Learning Outcomes, PWP

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

Fake news diagram

PRODUCTION CHART FROM 1980'S

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

semester recap and linkedIn

GETTING A JOB

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

Plain Language example

grammar, rough 

aol.2015.398r

grammar: top 20 errors

grammar: top 20 errors, for big screen

grammar, fixed    

 nominalizations      nominalizations revised

Search and Destroy

STYLE: Creating Mature, Professional-Level sentences

  •  Global Editing Fixing Content

  costco,   costco final   sammy'ssammy 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   

aol.398.2014

student essay: airforce

writing exercise #1

Liz Fixen's collection of Style Exercises

 

newsletter exercise

aol ruf

Zinsser Chapt. 16

Zinsser Chapt. 3, 4, 12

Zinsser Chapt. 5, 6, 7

 

READINGS:

The 4th State of Matter

Fun essay from Amy Poehler

The Wire:  Life in Baltimore

Poehler/Baltimore Discussion

Andre Dubus, Railroad Sketches

James Frey, Notes to Reader

Robbed in PG County:  blogs

Robbed in PG County:  story

Jim Brady

Jarhead links:  map

Frey/Swofford discussion

Didion/Greene -- style

Forever War/XX Files discussion

Video, The Kiss, Still on the Couch

Prague--student paper

memoir worksheet:  Karr/Walls

The Chase, Annie Dillard

Didion: Slouching Worksheet

Talking AIDS to Death:  video

Shiltz discussion

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

 

 

Craigslit --Fun Narrative

 


Election: understanding data

Evaluating web sites

 

 

 _________________________

Writer's Center

Schedule/Syllabus

Zinsser: On Writing Well

What IS Narrative Nonfction?

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

Top 10 Modern Love Essays

Video, The Kiss, Still on the Couch

Bob Greene:  Didion/Greene -- style

The Chase, Annie Dillard

Fun essay from Amy Poehler

A LIVES essay

A series of short pieces, some bettter than others:  Follow My Blog

Cowbird:  A website dedicated to short pieces

 

Writing Prompts


DOCUMENT DESIGN:

Document design:  fonts   cover letter specs    cover letter

professional manuscript format 

 

Adding Sources

 



 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

391

Syllabus

Rubric

Topic ideas

Troubled Topic Ideas

Topic Approval Formand Outline

Professional Writing  

Signal phrases:  how to add sources using "professional" style

dialogue 

Zinsser, Chap 8

Video:  Audience

Zinsser Chapter 9: Beginnings and Endings

PROPOSAL ARGUMENTS IN THE REAL WORLD

 Fallacies in Logic

                THE 2016 ELECTION

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      

391 Student Sample Papers

 award-winning sample papers

Progress Reports 

Progress Report 

Progress Report:  Proposal Paper

Progress report. Summer.

 

Labs 

  • Line Editing:  fixing sentences

 confused sentences    tight writing  passive voice  clarity

grammar, rough

grammar: top 20 errors

grammar: top 20 errors, for big screen

grammar, fixed

 nominalizations      nominalizations revised

Search and Destroy

STYLE: Creating Mature, Professional-Level sentences

sentence snarls

use commas correctly

fixing sentences/punctuation

 Commas

  • Global Editing:

aol ruf

Zinsser Chapt. 16

student sentences

classical argument structure

Clinton Revised

Clinton Rough


 

 

AUDIENCE:

 

DOCUMENT DESIGN:

Document design:  fonts   cover letter specs    cover letter  

cover letter for proposal projects

 

GETTING A JOB

ASJA, AWP:  join an org