The wording is not finalized and neither are the page counts.
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This workshop is a chance to share your work and ideas with your peers. In addition to original pieces from the class, there will be texts for reading, discussion, criticism, inspiration and imitation, but the workshop will revolve mostly around your work. You will become familiar with the elements of a prose and poetry, develop your writing voice, and become comfortable engaging with the text of your peers.
The class will function as a group; it is a joint enterprise. Come prepared to work and give the necessary effort.
Near the end of the semester you will be required to prepare a short story or a collection of poems for submission to a literary magazine. The point is to think like working writers. It is important to generate new work and revise previous drafts regularly.
Genres will be broken down into five-week sections. Prose submissions will be from X to XX pages per submission. Poetry submissions up to X poems. You will submit two copies weekly of a one-page critique of each of student piece being discussed. One copy goes to the writer, the other to the instructor. You might address what you think was the intention of the piece, its narrative strategies, what you feel are its strengths, weaknesses etc. Please be considerate of your classmates’ efforts and comment with the mindset of improving the piece. Try not to be prescriptive.
The typical class session will begin with a discussion of an assigned text, lead by one or two members of the class. Afterward, there will be a reading of one short work (or works, if really short) from each member of the class.
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you have good concepts...will new writers "get" it all?
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