| Course ID: | JNMW 6004E. 4 hours. |
| Course Title: | Nonfiction Writing III: Work-in-Progress Manuscript |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | Nonfiction Writing III |
| Nontraditional 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 semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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. |