Writing Community Stories

Catalog description

The course will prepare students to research and engage local communities as well as write a range of professional writing genres to engage those communities, particularly professional writing narratives. Students will learn research methods for studying their local communities. They will learn to study the community’s discourse, collective issues, social norms, and larger narratives. Students will then learn to research, draft, and revise a range of writing genres and narratives that enable the students to engage and/or support their local communities.