| Course ID: | JNMW 6000E. 4 hours. |
| Course Title: | Nonfiction Writing I: Explorations and Beginnings |
Course
Description: | Under the guidance of a faculty mentor, students will begin
researching, developing, and writing a customized narrative
project with a focus on advanced techniques and craft elements
on nonfiction. |
| Oasis Title: | Nonfiction Writing I |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | With the guidance of an assigned faculty mentor, students will
learn how to research, develop and write a narrative nonfiction
project from idea to completion. Students will understand the
techniques and appropriate craft elements necessary for their
projects, which may take the form of biography, personal essays,
long-form magazine pieces or other forms of narrative
nonfiction.
Students will complete a first draft of a magazine project or
essay by the end of the course, or a detailed chapter-by-chapter
outline for a book-length project. |
| Topical Outline: | I. Finding and developing ideas.
II. Pitching magazine and book ideas.
III. The history of journalism and New Journalism.
IV. Basic reporting.
V. Interviewing techniques and strategies.
VI. Writing proposals. |