Here you will find assignments, updates, and announcements. This week is strange because our first class was cancelled due to the weather. Here is your first assignment:
First Blog Assignment Due no later
than Tue., Jan 14 at noon. There are also two readings on the syllabus for
1/14; you are responsible to read, print, bring, and come prepared to discuss
these readings on Tue.
1.
Set up Blog
(see instructions at end of syllabus)
Post 1: (3-4 paras) Introduction,
say something about your writing, your experience in the creative writing
program so far, and discuss the following:
In the creative writing program
we often discuss texts that fall outside of traditional genre categories. This
semester we will also talk specifically about the relationship between form (how a text is written, structured,
constructed using materials such as language, line breaks, imagery, white space
or color or text or etc. visual elements on the page, and other elements) and content (what it is about, meaning,
message, etc). Course readings will seem
difficult but also lend toward complex discussion of form and content issues.
This will also make thinking and talking about “genre” challenging in new and
different ways. Read the pdf article on genre (Literary vs Genre Fiction) (posted
on EMU Online) and then write 2-3 paragraphs that explain, define, and discuss
genre in your own terms (from “genre” fiction such as science fiction and
mystery, to genre in more general terms such as poetry, fiction, nonfiction). Also,
do you write in a specific or particular genre? What is your experience so far
in terms of reading and writing transgenre, hybrid genre, and other kinds of
writing that seems outside of genre categories?
2.
Email your
blog url address to me and I will post these on the class blog page.
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