Course Description:
Focusing on formal elements and writing techniques, including autobiography and blogging, among others, the subject introduces the students to the reading and writing of Creative Nonfiction as a literary form. The subject develops in students the skills in reading, and thinking critically and creatively, that will help them to be imaginative readers and writers.
Course Objectives:
At the end of the semester, the students should be able to:
- understand the literary conventions that govern the different genres. (e.g., narrative convention of fiction, etc.);
- understand the delineation between creative and the nonfictional elements of creative nonfictional text;
- understand the distinction between and among creative nonfiction types and forms;
- understand that mastery of the basic forms, types, techniques and devices of creative nonfiction enables him/her to effectively critique and write creative nonfiction;
- write an interesting and engaging creative nonfiction.
Course Requirements:
Creative nonfiction writing exercises
Performance Tasks
Academic Performance Evaluation System:
Written Work …………………………………………………………….. 25 %
Quarterly Assessment…..…………………………….……………..… 30 %
Performance Tasks ……………………………………………………. 45 %
Total ……………………………………………………….……………. 100 %
References:
Mazzeo, P., 2012. Writing Creative Nonfiction. Virginia: The Great Courses, pp.1-175.
