Writing Non-Fiction for Publication

Catalog description

This course focuses on both the writing and publication of digital storytelling. Using a variety of nonfiction genre approaches, students will create a piece of original writing and usher it through from first draft to final draft. The instructor will provide intensive work in editing and revision utilizing both macro and micro approaches to feedback. This course will emphasize the writer’s audience and purpose. The class will discuss these in forum formats to assist student writers in bringing their work to a draft worthy of publishing. Students will also submit writing to publications and market published articles to increase audience reach. By the end of this course, students will have finished a 500-1500 word piece of nonfiction along with a publishing and marketing plan.