ENGLISH 247/8/9: Writing Poetry

• ‘Control word choices and word order to create a particular mood or tone
• Explore ideas using different tones or personas
• Employ metaphors, similes, symbols and other forms of figurative language
• Employ sound as a device, through alliteration, assonance, etc.
• Use meter and rhyme
• Identify the characteristics of conventional poetic forms, as well as open form poetry
• Critique works in progress
• Edit final drafts in a collection of their poetry
• Identify publication methods for poetry

ENGLISH 253/4/5: Writing Creative Non-Fiction

• Identify distinguishing characteristics of creative non-fiction
• Control sentence structure, length and word choice to create a particular mood, tone and narrative persona
• Identify subjective and objective perspectives in creative non-fiction
• Apply literary devices to personal experience to develop a theme
• Apply literary devices to personal experiences/perspectives to create narrative veracity
• Explore subjects and theme using variations of subjective and objective perspective
• Critique, revise and edit works in progress

ENGLISH 237/8/9: Writing Fiction

• Distinguish between plot and story
• Show, rather than tell, by using specific details, naming nouns and strong, active verbs
• Develop scenes
• Create believable characters through description, action, scene, and dialogue
• Establish and sustain a point of view
• Create and sustain tension
• Control sentence structure, length and word choice to create a particular tone and mood
• Critique, revise, and edit works in progress