Creative Nonfiction Writing

During my last year of teaching writing and literature at Clark College, a respected faculty colleague asked me to update and relaunch a creative writing workshop that she had brought to Clark years earlier. Below you can explore the course's learning objectives along with 10 captioned screenshots.

Course Learning Objectives for English 127: Creative Nonfiction Writing
▷ Write original creative texts that employ elements of literary craft to interpret the human experience.
▷ Analyze and evaluate published creative texts, demonstrating knowledge of literary devices and forms as well as awareness of the works’ contexts.
▷ Observe workshop etiquette and participate ethically in the workshop format as both a writer who receives feedback and a reader who offers constructive and substantive written and oral comments.
▷ Use reader feedback to determine revisionary choices and/or be able to defend on literary grounds a text as originally written with little or no revision