Course Description
With rigorous feedback from an assigned faculty mentor, students continue to develop, draft, and revise the manuscript that will become the thesis project.
Athena Title
Nonfiction Writing III
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
JNMW 6000E or JNMW 6001E or JNMW 6002E or JNMW 6003E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will learn to prepare a thesis-length project. Students will emerge with greater writing sophistication and narrative engagement. Students will hone their skills at sustaining long-form narrative by revisiting writing done in the first two semesters and completing significant work on their thesis-length projects.
Topical Outline
I. Planning and structuring the long-form narrative. II. Strategies for sustaining narrative momentum. III. Revising and rewriting a sustained narrative. IV. Critiquing one's own work.