Creative Nonfiction Workshop

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• Online course: Internet access required
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• $550 (EDP 867630)

Arlene Plevin, M.F.A., Ph.D., has extensive experience as a freelance writer specializing in travel and environmental topics. She has taught English and writing since 1979.

Textbook(s) for this course: The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Year: 1995
ISBN: 038542339X

AND The Dolphin Reader
Author: Douglas Hunt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Edition: 6th
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN: 0618218467

AND Reader
Students will purchase this reader online from a link in the online classroom.

X482 (2 semester units in English)

An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing

Learn to apply the techniques of storytelling to nonfiction prose pieces, including personal essays, features, commentaries, reviews, reports, journal entries and memoirs. Together, the instructor and other participants form your audience, offering support and critical feedback about your pieces. Weekly class discussions and writing assignments focus on story principles—such as plot, tension, scene and dialogue—that increase the readability of your work and form your material into publishable pieces.

Future-Term Courses and Enrollments

Courses are offered three terms per year: spring, summer, fall. Information about upcoming courses is available when enrollment opens each term.

• Spring term: Enrollment opens in early December. Classes begin in January.
• Summer term: Enrollment opens in early April. Classes begin in late May.
• Fall term: Enrollment opens in early July. Classes begin in August.

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