Contemporary Composition: Creative Writing

Catalog description

This component introduces students to the essentials of academic writing. While themed around specific topics, all sections will use the elements of creative writing to present the theory and the practice rhetoric and composition, teaching students how to construct well-organized and well-supported arguments through their own creative writing. Successful writing is far more than piecing together correct sentences or finding a single "voice". It requires that students become skilled rhetoricians - attuned to diverse audiences and capable of writing with clarity of purpose and precision of expression - so that they may effectively communicate their unique contributions to their respective fields. As the meaning of "learning to write" has changed dramatically in the 21st century across the disciplines, this component necessarily instructs students in effective, appropriate, ethical uses of technology for writing in a digital age through the means of creative writing.