Creative Writing
1 trimester .5 credit

Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing

Fees and Cost: None

Coursework is writing intensive. We will write every day. The course will include writing homework. You must be willing to share your work by reading it aloud to classmates.

Course Goals:

• Recognize good writing and the tools that make writing effective.
• Become more confident readers of our own writings and more constructive responders to the writing of others.
• Become more skilled writers in a variety of genres.

Coursework will be divided into five grading categories:

• Assignments: 25% Usually 1-2 assignments per week
• Weekly pieces: 25% We usually write 10 weekly pieces. They are due on Thursdays.
• Participation: 25% Attendance, discussion participation, journal, poem of the day, warm-up activity
• Portfolio of self-selected favorite poems; short-fiction; or short creative non-

fiction: 10% (poems/prose pieces and response writes must be typed)

• Chapbook or Showcase Portfolio: 15%

Final compilation and arrangement of your best pieces and the final reading on
portfolio presentation day.

Late work will be accepted one day late at half credit. No later, no exceptions!